Selected Poems

First edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, 120. Pale blue cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Illustrated with the poet's own b/w line drawings. Pictorial dustwrapper priced 25/- NET to front flap.

Off-setting to f.f.e.p., d/w lightly toned to back panel and rubbed to upper extremities, else Fine.

Stevie Smith was one of the few 'modern' poets to reach a wide general audience. A consummate craftsman, she believed only she could do justice to a public performance of her own work, and capture the qualities of humour and irony inherent in her witty, wry, and often disturbing poems. "On grey days when most modern poetry seems one dull colourless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet." –Robert Lowell