Leave to Remain (album) Leave to Remain (album) Leave to Remain is the sixth studio album by Kathryn Williams released on CAW Records on 1 October 2006. It was her first to feature Kate St John who would produce her next solo album, "The Quickening", in 2010. The track 'Stevie' on the album refers to the poet and novelist Stevie Smith with its chorus echoing the title of her poem 'Not Waving But Drowning' . The song premiered at 'The Beat Goes On' at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation at
Not Waving but Drowning as inspiration to the Manic Street Preachers song ‘Ready For Drowning’ which uses the phrase “We’re not waving, we’re drowning” The poem was performed as part of the 1976 album "Tears of Steel & the Clowning Calaveras" released by Australian singer Jeannie Lewis (Track 4b), and recited by two actors: Lex Marinos as the "Narrator" (...but still he lay moaning), and Nick Lathouris as the "Dead Man" (I was too far out...). St. Louis post-rock band Foxing uses the line "I'm not waving, but drowning," in the song 'Inuit', off their record "The Albatross". Australian ambient and alternative music group