Just found my old copy of 15 Contemporary New Zealand Poets ed. by
Alistair Paterson and was struck by how the transplanted seed of the
Black mountain School had taken root (noted that Creely had recently
visited) in almost every case but Elizabeth Smither's. She's quirky,
a tad like Laura Riding, I'd say with her combination of awkwardnesses
and grace notes. Whatever happened to her? I saw some of her work in
an issue of Iron magazine in the 1970's but after that, nothing. Any
leads appreciated. Jesse
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