Sewell, Bill

[Photograph: Reg Graham (1998)]

Bill Sewell (1951-2003)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Jahrhundertwende
Riversdale
Breaking the Quiet
Censorship

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD33

1. Pearse mocked by a tree
2. Monsters
3. Wrestling
4. Flagstaff
5. Jahrhundertwende
6. At Cambridge with Hamlet
7. Sutton
8. Mainland
9. Riversdale
10. Breaking the quiet
11. Aircraft accident report no. 79-139
12. Sestina on history and the snow
13. In excess of jurisdiction
14. By Ships We Live
15. Censorship

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

By Ships We Live

Bio /Bibliography:

Bill Sewell was born in Athens, Greece, in 1951 and spent his childhood in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and England, where he received his primary school education. He came to New Zealand at fourteen. Sewell was educated at the Universities of Auckland and Otago, completing a Ph.D. in German at the latter, where he also lectured. Thereafter, he worked as an editor with John McIndoe and the University of Otago Press. In 1981 and 1982, he was awarded the Burns Felowship at the University of Otago, and in 1982 published his first volume of poetry, Solo Flight. 1983 saw the release of his next collection, Wheels Within Wheels. A third collection, Making the Far Land Glow, appeared in 1986. Sewell had three further volumes of poetry published before his death in January 2003 - Erebus (1999), El Sur (2001), and The Ballad of Fifty-one (2003). In the late 1980s, Sewell moved to Wellington and took a law degree at Victoria University, after which he worked as a legal researcher for the New Zealand Law Commission. From 1997 to 2002 he was co-editor of New Zealand Books. Sewell also co-edited a number of non-fiction works and three collections of poetry. He was posthumously awarded the first Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry in 2003.

Poetry:

Solo Flight, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1982
Wheels Within Wheels, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1983
Making the Far Land Glow, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1986
Erebus: A Poem, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1999
El Sur, Wellington: Pemmican Press, 2001
The Ballad of Fifty-one, Wellington: HeadworX, 2003

Edited:

Balancing on Blue (with Jeanette Stace), Wellington: New Zealand Poetry Society, 1991
Ginger Stardust: A Selection of Poems and Haiku from the 1992 New Zealand International Poetry Competition (with Jeanette Stace), Wellington: New Zealand Poetry Society, 1992
Sons of the Fathers: New Zealand Men Write About Their Fathers, Auckland: Tandem Press, 1997
Under Review: A Selection from New Zealand Books 1991-1996 (with Lauris Edmond and Harry Ricketts), Lincoln: Lincoln University Press, 1997
Essential New Zealand Poems (with Lauris Edmond), Auckland: Godwit, 2001

Other Works:

A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park, Wellington: GP Books, 1989