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SUMMARY:Stevie Smith Poetry Workshop ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Not D
 rowning but Waving'
DESCRIPTION:‘Not Waving but Drowning: A Poetry Workshop by Katherine
  Gallagher’  On the surface, Stevie Smith’s life (1903-1971) was s
 imple – uneventful, self-effacing, but underneath, it was eclectic a
 nd driven. Her biographer Frances Spalding links the life to the poems
 , poems that Stevie said contained ‘her whole life . . . everything 
 I have lived through, and done, and seen, and read and imagined and th
 ought and argued.‘ Her famous poem ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ is 
 now part of everyday language: I was much too far out all my life And 
 not waving but drowning.\nHer life and poetry showed her to be loved b
 ut also the perennial ‘outsider’ – this is her paradox spelled o
 ut in her most important relationships: with her great ‘Lion Aunt’
  and Palmers Green; with her job (the same one for thirty years); with
  God; and with Death – these all interrelating. Indeed, poetry becam
 e her fortress for, as she said, though ‘the human creature is alone
  in his carapace . . . poetry is a strong way out.’ Stevie Smith is 
 witty, brilliant, funny, anarchic, humane. Participants will gain new 
 insights into her relationship with her Muse: Why does my Muse only sp
 eak when she is unhappy? She does not. I only listen when I am unhappy
  When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot bu
 t be dispiriting.\nKatherine Gallagher is a widely-published poet and 
 experienced tutor. She has five full collections of poetry, most recen
 tly Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2010). W: 
 www.katherine-gallagher.com\nE: mail@katherine-gallagher.com\nIn 2002,
  she was co-organiser of the Stevie Smith Centenary Palmers Green Poet
 ry Festival: ‘Ten Days With Stevie Smith.’\nPre-booking essential.
  Please book early to avoid disappointment.Tickets can be booked via t
 he Dugdale Box Office: 020 8807 6680 or online www.dugdalecentre.co.uk
 \n\nFor more information visit https://bowesandbounds.org/events/stevi
 e-smith-poetry-workshop-not-waving-but-drowning-not-drowni-1
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CATEGORIES:poetry, workshop
LOCATION:Dugdale Centre
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