parts largely about Penetana Papahurihia (also known as Te Atua Wera), an early 19th-century Nga Puhi religious leader. The poem appeared posthumously as a book in 1997 and "was immediately recognised as perhaps his finest work and one of the major New Zealand poems", according to Peter Simpson. In 2006, "Mudflat Works", the online division of Holloway Press, published online Smithyman's 1,500-poem Collected Works, which Smithyman had selected, made final revisions for and put aside in 13 manila folders. Works Published poetry Each year links to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1946: Seven Sonnets, Auckland: Pelorus Press 1950: The Blind Mountain & Other Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press 1955: The Gay Trapeze, Wellington: Handcraft Press 1957: The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love, by James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman, Wellington: Capricorn Press 1962: Inheritance: Poems, Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade 1968: Flying to Palmerston, Auckland: Published for the University of Auckland by the Oxford University Press 1972: Earthquake Weather, Auckland: Auckland University Press 1974: The Seal in the Dolphin Pool, Auckland: Auckland University Press 1978: Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, Auckland : Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press 1979: Menu, Departmental Dinner in Honour of Professor S. Musgrove and Professor M.K. Joseph, the Senior Common Room, 30 November 1979 / [Poetry by W.K. Smithyman], Auckland: s.n. 1983: Centennial Poets, Auckland: Printed for the Centenary Celebrations by the Mt Pleasant Press, University of Auckland; Poems by Kendrick Smithyman, Riemke Ensing, Terry Locke, Mervyn Thompson, Wystan Curnow, Peter Dane 1985: Stories about Wooden Keyboards, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press 1986: An Informal Occasion in the English Department for Peter Dane, Bill Pearson, Karl Stead, 5 December 1986: Three Poems, Auckland: Department of English, University of Auckland 1987: Are You Going to the Pictures, Auckland: Auckland University Press 1989: Kendrick Smithyman: Selected Poems, "Chosen and introduced by Peter Simpson", Auckland: Auckland University Press 1992: Auto/Biographies: Poems 1987-89, Auckland: Auckland University Press 1997: Tomarata, afterword by Peter Simpson, Auckland: Holloway Press; First published in: The Seal in the Dolphin Pool. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1974. 1997: Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press (short-listed for Montana Book Awards in 1998) 2002: Last Poems, "With notes by Peter Simpson"; Auckland: Holloway Press 2002: Imperial Vistas Family Fictions, Auckland: Auckland University Press A total of 134 poems written in 1983–1984, but none of them published in his lifetime. Smithyman