William Kendrick Smithyman (9 October 1922 – 28 December 1995) was a New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.

Family and early life

Smithyman was born in

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, a milling and logging town on the Wairoa River near

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, in the

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in the far north of New Zealand. He was the only child of William "Bill" Kendrick Smithyman, an immigrant from England and a former soldier who had fought both in the

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and

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and who had radical political sympathies.Simpson, Peter
"Smithyman, William Kendrick 1922–1995 / Poet, teacher, literary critic, university tutor"
article in the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' ("This site includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, ''Nga Tangata Taumata Rau''"), website accessed 27 April 2008Web page titled "Kendrick Smithyman (1922 - 1995 ) / a chronology"
at the ''Smithyman Online'' website, accessed 27 April 2008Simpson, Peter

at the ''Best New Zealand Poems 2002'' website, accessed 27 April 2008 Before World War I, he had worked in sugar plantations in

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. The poet's father had also been a sailor and waterside worker but fell on hard times during the Depression when the poet was growing up. The father at some points had to work on relief gangs to earn money. His wife, Annie Lavinia Evans, was born in

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. His parents managed a home for elderly men in Te Kōpuru before moving to Auckland in the early 1930s. Some of Smithyman's poems, especially in ''Imperial Vistas Family Fictions'' (written in 1983-1984 and posthumously published in 2002) are about his father and other relatives from previous generations whom Smithyman had never met, including his grandfather, also named William Kendrick, born in 1829, who became a sailor, fought for the British Royal Navy in the

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, travelled to Australia and India, then became harbourmaster at Ramsgate on the southeast coast of England. The family moved to several communities in and around Auckland before settling on Boscawen Avenue in Point Chevalier, where the lonely boy read voraciously and attended Point Chevalier Primary School. There he became a lifelong friend of future poet and historian

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. Smithyman also attended Seddon Memorial Technical College (1935–1939) and Auckland Teachers' Training College (1940–1941), from which he earned a teacher's certificate. There his first stories and poems were published in the college magazine, ''Manuka'', edited by

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, who later became Smithyman's first publisher. In

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Smithyman served in the New Zealand Army artillery as bombardier (1941–1942), then as a quartermaster in the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1942 to 1945. His service in the armed services was spent in New Zealand except for a short period in 1945 when he was stationed on

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, resulting ''Considerations'', a sequence of poems later published in ''Landfall'' and after that in the 1951 edition of

Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Life Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...

's ''Book of New Zealand Verse 1923–1950''.

Career

By 1944, his poetry started appearing regularly in journals in New Zealand, Australia, Britain and the United States, quickly establishing his reputation in New Zealand as one of the leading poets of the nation's post-war generation. This status was confirmed by his inclusion in ''A Book of New Zealand Verse, 1923–50'' (1951), edited by

. Thereafter, Smithyman's poetry made it into all significant anthologies of New Zealand poetry. Smithyman was closely associated with other writers in Auckland, such as Robert Chapman,

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and

. In August 1946, at Auckland, Smithyman married the poet Mary Isobel Stanley (née Neal; 1919–1980), whose first husband had been killed in the war. The couple had three sons. He dedicated his first books, ''Seven Sonnets'' (1946) and ''The Blind Mountain & Other Poems'' (1950) to her. In 1949 the couple moved to Pine Island (now known as Herald Island) in the Waitemata Harbour. Both poets wrote about this time on the Island where they were living in a remote environment, only accessible by boat. From 1946 to 1963 he was a primary and intermediate teacher at various schools in the Auckland area, where he specialised in teaching children with learning difficulties. In lectures and articles he promoted special needs education for psychologically impaired and high-achieving children, and the training of special-education teachers. Smithyman also attended

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sporadically, as a part-time student, but did not stay to get a degree. When the Education Department refused to allow him a leave of absence to work on a book of literary criticism, he resigned his position in 1963 and that year took up a teaching position as a tutor of English at the University of Auckland. From 1964 to 1965 he also edited and presented a radio programme, ''Perspective: A Programme of Critical Writing'' Intellectually curious and widely read, Smithyman assimilated a wide range of poetic influences, especially post-war Anglo-American modernism. The English poets T. S. Eliot,

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Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ...

and Americans

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and

Marianne Moore Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. Early life Moore was born in Kirkwood, ...

were all influences. He initially avoided some of the preoccupations of earlier New Zealand poets with landscape and colonial history. He was also fascinated by 17th-century poets, especially

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. At this time Smithyman wrote ironic, anti-Romantic love poetry thick with syntactical complexity, dense argument, and many references. " s poetry, above all, was academic in style. Smithyman's verse was notorious for its knotty language and allusive obscurity."Richards, Ian
"'they flower/ in an air of being suspended': Kendrick Smithyman's 'Flying to Palmerston'"
article at the "No Frills New Zealand Literature" website (Richards cites "Simpson, Peter. "'Sinfonia Domestica': Mary Stanley & Kendrick Smithyman" in ''Between the Lives: Partners in Art'' (ed. Shepard, Deborah). Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2005: 80"), accessed 27 April 2008 Many of the poems from this period were eventually collected in ''Inheritance'' (1962) and ''Flying to Palmerston'' (1968). The early 1960s he spent less effort on poetry and more on literary criticism, notably ''A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry'' (1965). The book's description of the aesthetics and practice of Auckland poets, whose work he dubbed "academic" (including

M. K. Joseph Michael Kennedy Joseph (9 July 1914 – 4 October 1981) was a British-born New Zealand poet and novelist in several genres. He studied at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, and at Merton College, Oxford, from 1936 to 1939. During the Second World War ...

, Mary Stanley,

C. K. Stead Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers. Early l ...

, and the later work of

), also provided insights into his own outlook and poems. "This idiosyncratic book – the first full-length study of the subject – analysed the Romantic affiliations of earlier New Zealand poets, and pointed to subtle regional differences (especially between Auckland and Wellington poets) in his own generation," according to Peter Simpson.

A change in style

From 1960 to 1965, Smithyman stopped writing poetry. Smithyman's poetry changed in style at some point or points in the 1960s or very early 1970s, although critics differ as to when the new style started appearing, and they can't pin down the cause. According to Ian Richards, the poem "Flying to Palmerston", which Smithyman wrote in an airport lounge in 1966 and which later became the title piece for the 1968 book, "signalled a new start in a new manner" in the poet's verse. "There is critical consensus that between this poem and his next collection, ''Earthquake Weather'', in 1972, Smithyman's mature style emerged." Smithyman was promoted to senior tutor at the

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in 1966, and he held the post until 1987. A six-month stay in 1969 at the

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as a visiting fellow in Commonwealth literature resulted in travel in Britain and North America, which stimulated many poems. On returning home in 1970, his poetry engaged the landscapes, history and people of his native Northland, as seen in ''Earthquake Weather'', as well as ''The Seal in the Dolphin Pool'' (1974), and ''Dwarf With a Billiard Cue'' (1978). "Whatever the biographical reasons (travel, maturity, a grown-up family) the next book, ''Earthquake Weather'' (1972) is a different kind of book, more like the four volumes that have followed than anything previous", Murray Edmund wrote in 1988. Some of these works became his most admired verse and are his most anthologized poems, including "An Ordinary Day Beyond Kaitaia", "Tomarata", and "Reading the Maps: An Academic Exercise". Although Smithyman initially seemed to shy away from writing poems about the landscape, he did write some even in his earliest years ("The Bay 1942", "Bream Bay"), and he turned to that subject in some of his later poems. He wrote about his 1969 travels in North America and Britain in 1969 and about his trip to Canada in 1981. Concerning New Zealand, he wrote about Coromandel ("Colville" and "Where Waikawau Stream Comes Out"), Auckland ("About Setting a Jar on a Hill"), the coast around Pirongia ("Bird Bay", "Below

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"), and other areas in the Central North Island ("In the Sticks", "Tokaanu"). Northland came up in his writing quite a bit, with verses about Puhoi, Waipu,

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, and the area around Dargaville where he grew up. The

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and

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sites were mentioned in his posthumous book, '' Atua Wera''.

Later career

In 1980 Smithyman's wife died after a long illness, and in January 1981 at Auckland he married Margaret Ann Edgcumbe, like himself a university tutor. Participation that year in the Harbourfront Literary Festival in

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, Canada was fruitful in generating many poems. In 1986 he was awarded an honorary LittD by the University of Auckland, and he won the

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for poetry for ''Stories About Wooden Keyboards'' (1985). The poems in that volume were more accessible to the general reader than his previous books and tended to use more narrative, anecdote and comedy. This vein in his poetry continued with ''Are You Going to the Pictures?'' (1987) and ''Auto/biographies'' (1992). He revised many earlier poems in significant ways for his ''Selected Poems'' (1989). Smithyman's other writing in his final years included essays on New Zealand philology and critical editions of novels by William Satchell and the stories of Greville Texidor. He was appointed an

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, for services to literature, in the

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. He died in December 1995 at

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in Auckland, after falling ill at his home in Northcote. At his death, Smithyman left five volumes of unpublished poems, including a number intended for an eventual ''Collected Works'' edition and more than 500 other poems he didn't intend to publish.Web page titled "Collected Poems 1943 -1995 by Kendrick Smithyman / an introduction by Peter Simpson"
"Smithyman Online" website, accessed 28 April 2008 Shortly before his death, he completed ''Atua Wera'', a long poem of almost 300 parts largely about Penetana Papahurihia (also known as Te Atua Wera), an early 19th-century Nga Puhi religious leader. The poem appeared posthumously as a book in 1997 and "was immediately recognised as perhaps his finest work and one of the major New Zealand poems", according to

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. In 2006, "Mudflat Works", the online division of

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, published online Smithyman's 1,500-poem ''Collected Works'', which Smithyman had selected, made final revisions for and put aside in 13 manila folders.

Works

Published poetry

Each year links to corresponding "

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in poetry" article: *

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

: ''Seven Sonnets'', Auckland: Pelorus PressWeb page titled, "Kendrick Smithyman / New Zealand Literature File"
at the New Zealand Literature File website of the University of Auckland Library, accessed 27 July 2012 *

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...

: ''The Blind Mountain & Other Poems'', Christchurch: Caxton Press *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

: ''The Gay Trapeze'', Wellington: Handcraft Press *

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

: ''The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love'', by

James K. Baxter James Keir Baxter (29 June 1926 – 22 October 1972) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures. H ...

, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman, Wellington: Capricorn Press *

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

: ''Inheritance: Poems'', Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade *

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

: ''Flying to Palmerston'', Auckland: Published for the University of Auckland by the Oxford University Press *

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

: ''Earthquake Weather'', Auckland: Auckland University Press *

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

: ''The Seal in the Dolphin Pool'', Auckland: Auckland University Press *

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

: ''Dwarf with a Billiard Cue'', Auckland : Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press *

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

: ''Menu, Departmental Dinner in Honour of Professor S. Musgrove and Professor M.K. Joseph, the Senior Common Room, 30 November 1979 / oetry by W.K. Smithyman', Auckland: s.n. *

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

: ''Centennial Poets'', Auckland: Printed for the Centenary Celebrations by the Mt Pleasant Press, University of Auckland; Poems by Kendrick Smithyman, Riemke Ensing, Terry Locke, Mervyn Thompson, Wystan Curnow, Peter Dane *

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

: ''Stories about Wooden Keyboards'', Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press *

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

: ''An Informal Occasion in the English Department for Peter Dane, Bill Pearson, Karl Stead, 5 December 1986: Three Poems'', Auckland: Department of English, University of Auckland *

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

: ''Are You Going to the Pictures'', Auckland: Auckland University Press *

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

: ''Kendrick Smithyman: Selected Poems'', "Chosen and introduced by Peter Simpson", Auckland: Auckland University Press *

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

: ''Auto/Biographies: Poems 1987-89'', Auckland: Auckland University Press *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: ''Tomarata'', afterword by Peter Simpson, Auckland: Holloway Press; First published in: The Seal in the Dolphin Pool. Auckland: Auckland University Press,

. *

: ''Atua Wera'', Auckland: Auckland University Press (short-listed for

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

) *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: ''Last Poems'', "With notes by Peter Simpson"; Auckland: Holloway Press *

: ''Imperial Vistas Family Fictions'', Auckland: Auckland University Press A total of 134 poems written in 1983–1984, but none of them published in his lifetime. Smithyman said he wrote them largely to inform his sons about aspects of their family history. *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: '' Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian'', Auckland: Writers Group *

: ''Collected Poems, 1943-1995'', edited & with notes by Margaret Edgcumbe and Peter Simpson, Auckland: Mudflat Webworks, ("Electronic book offered as part of the Smithyman Online website compiled by the University of Auckland and published by the online facility of the University of Auckland's Holloway Press, Mudflat Webworks," according to the University of Auckland Library website.)

Criticism

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

: ''A Way of Saying: a Study of New Zealand Poetry'', Auckland: Collins

Edited by Smithyman

Each year links to corresponding "

in literature" article: *

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

: William Satchell, ''The Land of the Lost'', edited and introduced by Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland: Auckland University Press *

: ''The New Gramophone Room: Poetry & Fiction'', selected by

Elizabeth Smither Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life and career Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian. Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was publi ...

, Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland: Department of English, University of Auckland *

: William Satchell, ''The Toll of the Bush'', Edited and introduced by Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland: Auckland University Press, Oxford University Press *

: Greville Texidor, ''In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot: Selected Fiction'', edited and with an introduction by Kendrick Smithyman, Wellington: Victoria University Press

References

External links

Smithyman Online
website

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