Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick CaveStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as spoken word (before that was a thing). The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety[Bokinfo].