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Pocketable Poetry Books Bundle (2 Books)

Stevie Smith, Wendy Cope

Buy two slim hardback poetry collections together in our Pocketable Poetry Books Bundle. Exclusive to Faber. RRP value: £20.

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Buy two slim hardback poetry collections together in our Pocketable Poetry Books Bundle.

Exclusive to Faber. RRP value: £20.

About Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

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 spoken word (before that was a thing). 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 for any of us who at one time or another have imagined ourselves not waving but drowning.

About The Orange and other Poems

A glorious selection of Wendy Cope’s most beloved poems.

In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling – and being – in love to ways to help you deal with a painful break-up or the memories of people loved and lost, this is a book you will want to savour and share with all your friends.

StevieSmith

Stevie Smith (1902-71) lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked as a secretary for the magazine publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. Her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, appeared in 1936, and her final collection of poems, Scorpion, was published posthumously in 1972. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award and in…

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The poet Stevie Smith after receiving the award of the Queen's Poetry Medal 1969
WendyCope

Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and…

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