{"product_id":"collected-poems-drawings-stevie-smith","title":"Collected Poems \u0026 Drawings\/stevie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century''s most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and ''Not Waving but Drowning'' remains one of the nation''s favourite poems to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSatirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith''s 35-year career, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential edition of modern poetry''s most distinctive voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody heard him, the dead man,\u003cbr\u003eBut still he lay moaning:\u003cbr\u003eI was much further out than you thought\u003cbr\u003eAnd not waving but drowning.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003e''Not Waving but Drowning''\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318786171262,"sku":"NW9780571311316","price":24.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571311316.jpg?v=1778654251","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/collected-poems-drawings-stevie-smith","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}