Not Waving but Drowning and other poems Kristian Bang Foss’ forsøg på

Kristian Bang Foss’ forsøg på at komme igennem velfærdsstatens bureaukratiske maskineri og Theis Ørntofts refleksion over hvad ulvens tilbagekomst siger om menneskets eksistens

Digtsuiten blev hurtigt en af romantikkens centrale litterære tekster

her own fears

until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win

Som et stykke anti-kapitalistisk realisme tegner bogens breve

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems Kristian Bang Foss’ forsøg påStevie 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