BARBED SHAFTS
STEVIE SMITH'S POEMS Readers of Stevie Smith's "Novel on Yellow Paper" and "A Good Time was Had by AH" will need no second invitation to enjoy her new book of poems, "Tender Only To One," in which again she shows herself to be a dozen different personalities yet ever the incomparable Stevie. A short poem. "In My Dreams," closes on the lino "I am glad, I am glad, that my friends don't know what i think." But in this little volume they will get some revealing glimpses of tho thoughts she cannot conceal, and if they sometimes smile and poke fun with her, the.v will *yince too at some of her barbed shafts.
With what bitter and potent malice; for instance, docs she write:
How Rlowly time lengthens from a hated event. In my youth I was humiliated in a guilty association— Insinuator, flatterer, Board of Trade Surveyor, hypocrite, Aha, Hildreth Parker, how have the years dealt with you?
Throughout these poems, as in her previous volume, Miss Smith remains ''tender only to one." His name, she says, is Death. Her drawings, crude and unintelligible as they appear at first sight, are as articulate as her words. "Tender Only to One," by Stevie Smith. (Jonathan Cape.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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208BARBED SHAFTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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