The Queen's Gambit references a poet and her most famous poem

 

Netflix's super smash hit, The Queen's Gambit has reinvigorated an interest in chess (and books about playing), incorporates a well-known poem by a famous female English poet (Stevie Smith's Not Waving But Drowning) and displays girl power, the good and bad, to new heights!

To read Not Waving But Drowning, visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning

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