Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Picador To Fold the Evening Star

To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections

Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned from Johnny Bevan

Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities

In the crown of sonnets

the school canteen

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Picador To Fold the Evening Star'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