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Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. [ 1 ] The most famous of Smith's poems, [ 2 ] it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distant movements in the water had been mistaken for waving. [ 3 ]
Stevie Smith reading "Not Waving But Drowning", BBC (includes poem text and poet's photo). Retrieved 12 December 2010; Author profile for Stevie Smith, LibraryThing. Retrieved 12 December 2010 "Pretty" by Stevie Smith from The Times, 13 May 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2010
A fact from Not Waving but Drowning appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2009 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
Not Waving but Drowning is the title of a 1957 poem by British poet Stevie Smith. It may also refer to: Not Waving, but Drowning, a 2019 album by British rapper Loyle Carner. This album contains a track by the same name featuring an elderly woman, who speaks about the 1957 poem by Stevie Smith. Not Waving but Drowning, 2012 drama film
The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White. In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
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