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Article: ALLEN CURNOW, NEW ZEALAND'S MAJOR POET.
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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THE POET whose book of "new and collected poems" I wish to recommend is not an Australian. (He most recently passed this way as a guest at this year's Adelaide Festival.) But if New Zealand had joined the Commonwealth of Australia back in the days when British colonies were shaping up into nations, and so their writers had become ours as well ("Australasian", the term would have been), then Katherine Mansfield could well have figured more creatively in the making of our modern fiction, and Allen Curnow (born 1911), New Zealand's one certainly major poet, would be widely admired and even studied here, and a significant influence on more than one generation of poets.
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