Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan Among New Zealand poet John

Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's spirit guides are John Clare and

drawing on themes of girlhood and womanhood

uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal

as do birds and plants and larvae

Forgiveness

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan Among New Zealand poet John'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