Elizabeth Smither

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Elizabeth Smither has written five novels, five collections of short stories and seventeen poetry collections, including The Blue Coat (2013). She has twice won the major award for New Zealand poetry and was the 2001–2003 Te Mata Poet Laureate. In 2004 she was awarded an honorary DLitt from the University of Auckland for her contribution to literature and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She was given the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2008. In 2016 she won the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, New Zealand’s most valuable poetry award, judged by Paul Muldoon, and those poems are included in Night Horse (2017).

Auckland University Press

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Elizabeth Smither

Elizabeth Smither

A Pattern of Marching

Night Horse

The Blue Coat

The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations

The Commonplace Odes

The Journal Box

The Lark Quartet

The Tudor Style: Poems New and Selected

The Year of Adverbs