Question

Glenda Jackson portrayed this poet in a Hugh Whitemore play after being entranced by this poet’s partly sung, off-key recitations of her work. Sylvia Plath called herself an “addict” of this author’s poetry in a fan letter professing jealousy of the title of this author’s Novel on Yellow Paper. “The Galloping Cat” is one of many cat-related poems by this author, who repeated a line about “a cat named Flo” (10[1])in a poem that states “I think he was already stuck / with Kubla Khan” and “It was not right of Coleridge in fact it was wrong.” This author of “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock” wrote “Poor chap, he always loved larking” in a poem that begins “Nobody heard him, the dead man” in reference to a man whose thrashing is mistaken for a commonplace gesture. For 10 points, name this English poet of “Not Waving But Drowning.” ■END■

ANSWER: Stevie Smith [or Florence Margaret Smith] (The lead-in refers to Whitemore’s 1977 play Stevie.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%0%69.00