Elizabeth Smither has won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Award for Night Horse – an honour bestowed on her twice before! Elizabeth Smither has written five novels, five collections of short stories and eighteen poetry collections incl

Five of our best poets reflect on the books that got them started into the world of writing. Elizabeth SmitherThe book that got me started . . . anything by Tomas Tranströmer is a perfect place to start when writing poetry. Scandinavian writers a