Elizabeth Smither

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Publications & Biography

• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files

On-line Works

         12 recent poems (nzepc)

• Hugging Judy for Judy la Rosa
• Forbidden to use Larkin's Next, Please for a speech exam 
• Sign on a Melbourne tram
• Rainbow
• Son surviving a car crash
• The Oxford comma
• Variations on Bashö's snow party
• Lullaby
• Suffolk sheep
• A dentist's view of heaven
• Girl and wolfhound at Glebe 
• A few words from old postcards

7 poems to celebrate the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Elizabeth Smither by the University of Auckland, 22 March 2004 (nzepc)

• The year of adverbs
• Listening to Handel with a cat
• The death of old women
• Causing someone to follow in a foreign language
• At Saint-Sulpice
• Conversation with David
• Dolls’ house

• Punk girl sketching the Parthenon frieze; Effleurage (Sport3/NZETC)
• The Lark Quartet; A Woman on a bus reading a poem; A Donation to the Haemophilia Society (AUP/The Lark Quartet)
• Hearing the Approach of Rain (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• A Cortège of Daughters (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• Japanese Bride in the Botanical Garden; Miniature Ferns (Southern Ocean Review 6) 
• A Cortège of Daughters (NZ Poetry)
• Sitting in Margo’s garden reading Philippe Ariès’ The Hour of our Death; Salary; Moss (Trout 9)
• Te Whiti and Tohu (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Listening to The Goldberg Variations (seeing voices 2)
• To Mai, a month after her death (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• The servants' quarters in Queen Mary's dolls house ; The butterfly girl (Sport7/NZETC)
• The Tudor Style (Sport8/NZETC)
• Simone de Beauvoir’s Warning, The Cemetery (Poetic Brandscapes)

About Elizabeth Smither

• John Newton, Identity in the Future Anterior: Teaching Historical Discontinuity (nzepc/English in Aotearoa)

Audio     

• Hearing the Approach of Rain (AUP/Seeing Voices) 
     lo-fi (rm : 230KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 340KB ) 
• A Cortège of Daughters (AUP/Seeing Voices)
    lo-fi (rm : 320KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 490KB 
  

Links

• Te Mata Poet Laureate (Te Mata Estate)

Elizabeth Smither, Te Mata Laureate, with John Buck and tokotoko The Dominion, 2001

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Last updated 11 May 2001