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Although the nursery-rhyme-like cadences of her poems and the whimsical drawings with which she illustrated them suggest a child’s innocence, Stevie Smith was a sophisticated poet, whose work was much concerned with suffering and mortality.
- Not Waving But Drowning
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- Not Waving But Drowning
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson .
Sep 10, 2020 · Stevie Smith (1902-71) was one of the most distinctive and individual poets of the twentieth century. Born in Hull in England as Florence Smith, she was given the nickname ‘Stevie’ after a famous jockey of the time, because she was so small.
Stevie Smith (born Sept. 20, 1902, Hull, Yorkshire, Eng.—died March 7, 1971, London) was a British poet who expressed an original and visionary personality in her work, combining a lively wit with penetrating honesty and an absence of sentiment.
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Feb 10, 2016 · The poet Stevie Smith was both lauded and patronised in her lifetime, often for the wrong reasons. BIDISHA considers one of Britain’s most distinctive poets and argues that it’s time to stop...
Stevie Smith - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Florence Margaret "Stevie" Smith was born in 1902 in Yorkshire, England.
Stevie Smith died of a brain tumour in 1971 only three years after her indomitable aunt. In this BBC broadcast, Smith gives the listener an insight into the inspiration behind her work, the “pressures” of both despair and joy which prompt her to write.
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