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Niel Wright
pays tribute to W H Oliver:
“I note the recent death (aged 90, September 2015) of
my uncle by marriage W H Oliver.
In 1950 I was talking with Bill Oliver who married my mother’s half
sister Dorothy. I said I too was a poet (then 16 or 17). I think it was Dorothy
who asked how I would find an audience. I said a poet had to create his own
audience. I still think that 65 years later.
It is now 2015. In 2005
Victoria University Press published W H Oliver’s Poems 1946-2005, a
152-page book including uncollected poems as well. There is a 2005 preface by W
H Oliver. I had not read the uncollected poems before. I am happy to see W H
Oliver’s poems collected…”
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Full contents: Poetry
Notes, Summer 2016, volume 6, issue 4: Niel Wright
on W H Oliver (1925-2015); classic New Zealand poetry by E Mary Gurney
(1900-1938); poetry by Hugh Isdale; comment on Robert John Palmer Bakewell
(1857-1942); NZ Truth poem; donate to PANZA through PayPal; recently
received donations; about the Poetry Archive.
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