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Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith 1902 - 1971
The Lively Arts
21 November 1965  Home Service

Stevie Smith talks to Derek Hart about

   Audioher sources of inspiration  1 min 31

   Audioher poem V  0 min 59


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Stevie Smith
British poet and novelist

Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith's eccentric, mischievous, often disturbing poems contain beneath their lighthearted surfaces an undertone of loneliness, boredom and death.
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