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Publications & Biography
Gallery
On-line Works
Collected Poems
1943-1995 (Mudflat WebWorks, 2004)
Closing the Chocolate Factory
- texts of 20 poems read by Kendrick for video production December 1995.
Note:
These are the poems read by Kendrick Smithyman at his home at 66 Alton Avenue,
Northcote, in December 1995 shortly before his death. The reading was filmed
under the direction of
Margaret Henley. The poems were selected
by Kendrick in consultation with Margaret Edgcumbe, Mac Jackson, and
Peter Simpson. The poems are listed in the order in which he read them. The
entries give the title of the poem, followed by the date of composition in
square brackets (as given in Kendrick’s papers, Collected Poems [D]). The
numbers in square brackets refer to the time occupied by each poem on the
videotape, including comments made by Kendrick before and/or after the actual
reading of the text.
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Communicating [1966], [01: 00.30 - 01.42]
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Bream Bay [1945], [01: 01.56 - 04.25]
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Gathering the Toheroa [1956], [01: 04. 28 - 07.35]
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Near Ellon [1970], [ 01: 07.42 - 12.00]
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After Zhivago [1977], [01: 12.09 - 14.05]
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A Birthday Poem [1985], [01: 14.07 - 16.00]
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Waitomo [1970s], [01: 16.30 - 18.30]
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Lady as Swan [1943], [01: 18.40 - 21.45]
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Parable of Two Talents [1959], [01: 21.50 - 25.30]
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A Showing Forth by Day of the Nankeen Kestrel [1970], [01: 26.18 - 29.50]
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The Seal in the Dolphin Pool [1970], [01: 30.26 - 34.26]
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Meeting Feodor Second [1985], [02: 00.30 - 2.25]
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Circus at the Barber's Shop [1971], [02: 2.26 - 6.00]
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Loitering with Intent [1965], [02: 6.05 - 8.12]
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Deconstructing [1983], [02: 8.20 - 11.54]
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Peter Durey's Story [c. 1983], [02: 12.04 - 14.30]
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Mister Nakamura [1984], [02: 14.40 - 18.20]
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Pressing North [1988], [02: 18.30 - 20.30]
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Night Riding [1980s], [20.40 - 24.00]
- Closing the Chocolate Factory [1988], [02: 31-27 -
33.35]
From Last Poems (Holloway Press)
From Imperial Vistas Family Fictions (Auckland University Press, 2002)
Uncollected Northland Poems
(nzepc/brief)
Not as Strangers Do with Hat in Hand (Sport10/NZETC)
Essay, Interview by Kendrick Smithyman
About Kendrick Smithyman
- Murray Edmond, Divagations: Kendrick Smithyman's Poetry (nzepc/Landfall)
- Gregory O'Brien, A journey around Kendrick Smithyman’s
Atua Wera (nzepc/VUP)
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Peter Simpson, Introduction to Selected Poems
(nzepc/AUP)
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Jack Ross, Kendrick Smithyman's Northland (The Pander 1)
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Murray Edmond, Obituary
(Evening Post)
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Heather McCann, A Way of Seeing (nzepc)
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Judith Binney, Conversations with Kendrick (nzepc/brief)
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Margaret Edgcumbe (& Jack Ross), Life with Kendrick
(nzepc/brief)
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Scott Hamilton, Reading
Kendrick Smithyman (nzepc/brief)
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Peter Simpson, The Smithyman Papers: A Preliminary Description
(nzepc/brief)
- Ian Richards, 'they flower/ in an air of being suspended': Kendrick Smithyman's 'Flying to Palmerston' (No Frills NZ Literature)
Video
selections from Closing the Chocolate Factory
Smithyman's Collected
Kendrick Smithyman prepared four versions of his Collected Poems. The last one, compiled in the 1990s, contains almost 1200 poems.
Archive
The bulk of Kendrick Smithyman's literary papers were gifted to the University of Auckland in 1997. The estate holds unpublished material and private papers.
Research
study, typewriter, banana palms
Margaret Edgcumbe, 1996 |
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