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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 ]
Her best-known poem is "Not Waving but Drowning". She was awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1966 and won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 1969. [ 6 ] She published nine volumes of poems in her lifetime (three more were released posthumously).
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The Descent into the Cave, and Other Poems [19] The Prodigal Son [19] Louis MacNeice, Visitations [19] Norman MacCaig, The Sinai Sort, London: Hogarth Press [18] Edith Sitwell, collected works; Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning; Anthony Thwaite, Home Truths [19] Terence Tiller, Reading a Medal [19] C. A. Trypanis, The Stones of Troy
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