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Poem — Hubert Witheford

Snapshot 1938 ‘Althea Woodhouse is a very nice girl’ Aunt Olive said cheerfully — My father dead, My mother, Olive thought, not all that bright — She felt she ought to do something about my life Her own having been

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A state of acceptance? Bill Sewell

A Blue Monkey for the Tomb Hubert Witheford Faber & Faber £5.99 (approx NZ$15) Hubert Witheford presents a problem to literary historians. In some respects, he fits the profile of a New Zealand poet of his generation (he was born

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