Stevie Smith and Authorship

William May is a Research Fellow in Humanities at the University of Southampton. He completed a doctorate on the work of Stevie Smith at Balliol College, Oxford in 2007, and lectured at St. Anne's College, Oxford and Bath Spa University before taking up his present position. He has published widely on post-war British literature, and co-edited the interdisciplinary essay collection From Self to Shelf: The Artist Under Construction (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) with Sally Bayley. His current research project, Setting Agendas, examines the relationship between contemporary British music and literature.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Reforming a Literary Orphan: Stevie Smith's Poetry in Context ; 2. 'A poet reading' ; 3. Brought to Book: the Publishing History of Stevie Smith ; 4. Towards a Constructive Criticism of Stevie Smith ; 5. 'Observation, discipline, and company': the Overlooked Reader ; 6. Beyond Words: Stevie Smith as a Visual Artist ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

[an] engaging and highly readable book