All The Poems

Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic 1978 movie Stevie. This new and updated edition of Stevie Smith’s collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. The Smith scholar Will May collects poems and illustrations from published volumes, provides fascinating details about their provenance, and describes the various versions Smith presented. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. Contents: A good time was had by all (1937) -- Tender only to one (1938) -- Mother, what is man? (1942) -- Harold's leap (1950) -- Not waving but drowning (1957) -- Selected poems (1962) -- The frog prince and other poems (1966) -- Scorpion and other poems (1972) -- Appendices: I. uncollected poems -- II. Unpublished poems.

Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic 1978 movie Stevie. This new and updated edition of Stevie Smith’s collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. The Smith scholar Will May collects poems and illustrations from published volumes, provides fascinating details about their provenance, and describes the various versions Smith presented. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. Contents: A good time was had by all (1937) -- Tender only to one (1938) -- Mother, what is man? (1942) -- Harold's leap (1950) -- Not waving but drowning (1957) -- Selected poems (1962) -- The frog prince and other poems (1966) -- Scorpion and other poems (1972) -- Appendices: I. uncollected poems -- II. Unpublished poems.