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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
Pickstone's winning painting, Stevie Smith and the Willow, was based on an illustration accompanying Smith's 1957 poem "Not Waving But Drowning". [1] Pickstone said the painting's depiction of a girl bathing under a willow tree "might represent some kind of everywoman - an artist or mother or child", and while the poem is "very dark", she ...
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
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
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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?
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