He published three collections of poems : '' Solo Flight '' ( 1982 ) , '' Wheels within Wheels '' ( 1983 ) and '' Making the Far Land Glow '' ( 1986 ) and also '' A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park '' ( 1989 ) . His poems have a link to modern German poetry and a political focus e.g. '' The Ballad of Fifty-one '' , about the 1951 waterfront dispute and '' Erebus : A Poem '' , about the 1979 Erebus disaster He was born in Athens where his father William Arthur Sewell , a professor of English at the University of Auckland and the University of Waikato , was then teaching . He lived in Southern Europe and then England where he attended school . He studied German at the University of Auckland and lectured in German at the University of Otago . He had a law degree from the Victoria University of Wellington and was a legal researcher for the Law Commission
1979 Erebus disaster
Air New Zealand Flight 901
William Sewell (poet)