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Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving But Drowning”
Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving But Drowning”
A Visual Interpretation
Julian Peters
October 27, 2020

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illustration of family waving on a doorstep
illustration of a man in a coffin surrounded by people talking about him
illustration of a wake at a funeral home
illustration of a man drowning in the ocean

Source: Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning,” from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (New York: New Directions, 1983). Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.

Julian Peters

Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections.

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