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Haurongo: 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', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/47281/on-poetry-and-politics (accessed 4 June 2026).