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Biography: Sinclair, Keith

On poetry and politics

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In these excerpts from a 1993 Frontline interview filmed shortly before his death, Keith Sinclair talks about the relationship between poetry and history and his late 1960s activism which led to his run for Parliament. The interviewer is Ross Stevens.

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Tony Ballantyne. 'Sinclair, Keith', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47281/on-poetry-and-politics (accessed 30 June 2026).