Not Waving but Drowning and other poems er det også en tankevækkende

er det også en tankevækkende refleksion over vores egen og alle andre tiders dumhed

The Seducer's Diary is also an excoriating reconstruction of Kierkegaard’s own romantic failures

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herunder The Man Booker International Prize i 2015

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems er det også en tankevækkendeStevie 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 distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and