William Sewell (poet)

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William Sewell
Born1 December 1951
Athens, Greece
Died29 January 2003
Wellington, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsRobert Burns Fellowship

William Seymour (Bill) Sewell (1 December 1951 – 29 January 2003) was a New Zealand poet. He was a Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin in 1981–82. He was a frequent reviewer of books, particularly for the periodical New Zealand Books, to which he was appointed co-editor in 1997. He was also a book editor. He died of cancer in Wellington.

He published three collections of poems: Solo Flight (1982), Wheels within Wheels (1983) and Making the Far Land Glow (1986) and also A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park (1989). His poems have a link to modern German poetry and a political focus e.g. The Ballad of Fifty-one, about the 1951 waterfront dispute and Erebus: A Poem, about the 1979 Erebus disaster.[citation needed]

He was born in Athens in 1951 where his parents Rosemary Seymour and William Arthur Sewell were living at the time. His father was a former professor of English at the University of Auckland and later both his parents taught at the University of Waikato.

He lived in Southern Europe and then England where he attended school. He studied German at the University of Auckland and lectured in German at the University of Otago. He completed a PhD on the poetry of Hans Magnus Enzensberger at the University of Otago in 1978. He had a law degree from the Victoria University of Wellington and was a legal researcher for the Law Commission.[citation needed]

Works

  • Solo Flight (1982)
  • Wheels within Wheels (1983)
  • Making the Far Land Glow (1986)
  • A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park (1989)
  • Erebus: A Poem (1999)
  • The Ballad of Fifty-One (2003)

References

  1. ^ "Obituary". The Dominion Post. Wellington. 6 February 2003. p. B8.
  2. ^ Matthews, Kay Morris (2009). "Rosemary Seymour - links and legacies". Women's Studies Journal. 23: 4–17.
  3. ^ Sewell, William (1978). The cannon and the sparrow : patterns of conflict in the poetry of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 1955-1975 (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/9762.

Further reading

  • Robinson & Wattie (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 487. ISBN 0-19-558348-5.



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