Not Waving but Drowning and other poems Færøerne i slutningen af 1700-tallet

Færøerne i slutningen af 1700-tallet

Could there be another way to live - one that feels more meaningful

Van Veens mange besøg på bordeller og Adas ægteskab med en anden

undergrave beskyttelsesordninger for seksuel og kønsmæssig vold og fratage trans- og queerpersoner retten til et liv uden frygt for vold

at børnene kan være med

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems Færøerne i slutningen af 1700-talletStevie 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 sung and spoken word. 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