Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Roy Fisher Formally ambidextrous

Formally ambidextrous

NOTES ON THE SONNETS

Meera Syal

Political as they may be

frame of reference and sheer sound is enough to mark her out as one of the most talented young poets to appear in recent years

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Roy Fisher Formally ambidextrous'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave 'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.' Sylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1963 'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali Smith Stevie 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 sung and spoken word. The poems are