Stevie Smith

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning- I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.' Moved by love, death and a powerful eye for the joy and absurdity of life, these are bizarre, mischievous and often deliciously barbed poems by one of the twentieth century's most popular poets.

Not Waving But Drowning

Charles Baudelaire

Elizabeth Bishop

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

Rainer Maria Rilke

Amy Lowell

W.B. Yeats

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors.
Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.

Cat Poems

The essential edition of one of modern poetry s most distinctive voices."

All the Poems of Stevie Smith

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.

Or, Work it Out for Yourself

Novel on Yellow Paper

Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper. Amusing novel by the famous English poetess.

Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work it Out for Yourself

Poems with drawings spanning the artists lifetime.

Collected Poems

Stevie Smith, a Selection

Scorpion and Other Poems

Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love - for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate - moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith captured the paradox of pain in all human affections - nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.

The Holiday

Edited With a Preface By James Macgibbon

The Collected Poems Of Stevie Smith

The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback 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 movie Stevie. This new and updated edition includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, the Smith scholar Will May discovered never-before-published verses and provides fascinating details about their provenance. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.

All the Poems: Stevie Smith

It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.

Over the Frontier

The Frog Prince, and Other Poems

The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith [i.e. F. M. Smith].

What goes through a young boy's head when his father walks out of his life? What happens in his mind when his mother remarries in misery? What can a boy do when faced with a new country to live in, a new stepfather (who really is a tyrant), and a life that just isn't what it should be?Johnnie is an average kid who happens to be quite miserable, and justly so. Maybe he is miserable for a reason, though. Maybe fate has stepped in so he can help release a tortured soul from the Curse of the Devil's Son.Captain Will is a spirit cursed to remain earthbound, only to be seen by souls as miserable as he. Johnnie finds Will aboard the very ship that witnessed the curse some two hundred years prior. Johnnie can see this wretched soul, and they bond in a sharing of life stories.What happens when Johnnie's mother comes on board the ship? Johnnie finds out that his mother is a kindred spirit; she is sad enough to see Will as well. Together, the three take action to end their misery in a tale of ghosts, karma and life's joy: love.This title, for readers ten years and up, will satisfy the adventure seeker and the life thinker as well.

Curse of the Devil's Son

Johnnie and Will

The essential edition of one of modern poetry's most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith's flabbergasting poems, now in paperback

Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her deep sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions.

Selected Poems

A Good Time was Had by All

It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus (the heroine of Smith's debut, Novel on Yellow Paper) lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug which confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy. Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy; six months of rest and recuperation are prescribed and Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum-coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent-minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love. How Pompey gets into uniform and becomes a spy is only one of the astounding events in this extraordinary novel which, on a serious level, is also about a powerful investigation of power and cruelty in a world preparing for war.

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