Glenda Jackson on playing poet Stevie Smith " archive, 1977
17 March 1977: Jackson spoke to the Guardian ahead of the opening of Hugh Whitemore's play about the late-blossoming poet from Palmers GreenGlenda Jackson met Stevie Smith on a poetry-reading platform in the 1960's, when the poet from Palmers Green came into a late-blossoming fame. "This extraordinary little figure stood directly in front of me " which was odd, because people usually approach you at an angle " and I …