i've always liked her work. here's a site to check out
more:
http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/smither/
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Elizabeth Smither's first full-length UK poetry
> collection, 'A Questiion of
> Gravity', appeared from Arc last year. It's 'an
> extensive selection from
> five of her most recent collections, including 'Red
> Shoes' (2003), the
> result of her two-year term as Te Mata New Zealand
> poet laureate.' I heard
> her read from this collection at last November's
> Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.
> A quiet, confident voice.
>
> nb Arc is Alison's UK poetry publisher.
>
> best joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:45 AM
> Subject: Elizabeth Smither
>
>
> > 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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