Kendrick Smithyman

Kendrick Smithyman

Born
William Kendrick Smithyman

(1922-10-09)9 October 1922
Te Kōpuru, New Zealand
Died28 December 1995(1995-12-28) (aged 73)
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationPoet
Period1944–1995
Spouse
  • Mary Isobel Stanley
    (m. 1946; died 1980)
  • Margaret Ann Edgcumbe
    (m. 1981)

William Kendrick Smithyman OBE (9 October 1922 – 28 December 1995) was a New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.