Not Waving but Drowning
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- Lyrics written by
- Stevie Smith
- Publication date
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Comments
- Twelve line poem published in 1957 in an anthology of the same title, the most famous of Stevie Smith's poems. It gives an account of a drowned man whose distressed thrashing in the water had been mistaken for waving. The poem was accompanied by one of Smith's drawings, as was common in her work.
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