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 Be Crying." Kirsty Maccoll also has the lyric "And are you just waving or drowning?" in her song Innocence. The electronic music group Orbital recorded a song entitled "Waving Not Drowning" for their 2001 album, The Altogether. Erin McKean wrote a short story entitled "Not Waving But Drowning" which was published in "Machine of Death", a collection of short stories. In it she talks of the poem and the author. P.O.S wrote the song "That One" with the hook “I’m not waving I’m drowning.” Belgian filmmaker Elias Grootaers made a film in 2009 entitled "Not Waving, But Drowning" recording the