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William Sewell

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Reference NumberBox-028-002Date1981-1982CreatorUnknown

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DescriptionThis is a passport-sized colour photograph of the poet William Sewell.History / BiographySewell, William or Bill (1951--2003), poet, was born in Athens and spent much of his early life in various parts of Southern Europe (Barcelona, Ankara and Beirut). After primary and secondary schooling in England, he finished his education in New Zealand where he studied German at the University of Auckland and completed a doctorate on the poetry and politics of Hans Magnus Enzensberger. He lectured in German at Otago University, worked as an editor for John McIndoe and the University of Otago Press and, after obtaining a law degree from Victoria University of Wellington, was a legal researcher for the Law Commission and is a freelance writer and editor.

Sewell was Burns Fellow at Otago University in 1981 and 1982, and president of the New Zealand Poetry Society in the early 1990s. He has 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). From the Oxford Companion To New Zealand LiteratureProvenanceDonated by via Jeff Kirkus-Lamont, University of Otago, 1989MediaPhotographic printsDye coupler prints

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NamesSewell, William, 1940-2001SubjectsPortraits

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