This volume features 100 selected poems, drawn from all of Smithyman's published collections from the 1940s onward, which show the full range of his achievement.
A new collection from one of New Zealand's leading poets. Many of the poems are about films, others are about friends, war in Crete and the Balkans, a visit to Canada, and events in Auckland.
This collection of short poems dates from the 1980s and gives vignettes of Kendrick Smithyman's forbears, tracing them from their apparent origins in Shropshire, England. It also illustrates the shock of family myth meeting historical reality.
