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Biography: Smithyman, William Kendrick

Links and sources

Websites

New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre

Explore Kendrick Smithyman's poetry at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre, along with the work of his wife Mary Stanley.

Smithyman Online

Read Kendrick Smithyman's Collected poems online.

Bibliography

Berry, R. ‘Hard yakker: Kendrick Smithyman’s colorless green ideas’. Landfall 42, No 4 (Dec. 1988): 388–402

Edmond, M. ‘Divagations: Kendrick Smithyman’s poetry’. Landfall 42, No 4 (Dec. 1988): 447–456

Jackson, M. ‘Interview with Kendrick Smithyman’. Landfall 42, No 4 (Dec. 1988): 403–420

Simpson, P. Introduction to Selected poems by K. Smithyman. Auckland, 1989

Simpson, P. ‘“Sinfonia domestica”: Mary Stanley & Kendrick Smithyman’. In Between the lives: partners in art. Ed. D. Shepard. Auckland, 2005, pp.55–87

 

How to cite this page

Peter Simpson. 'Smithyman, William Kendrick', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000, updated March 2014. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128525/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).