Bibliography: Elizabeth Smither
Poetry
Night Horse (Auckland UP, 2017)
The Blue Coat (Auckland UP, 2013)
The Sea Question (Photographs Juneau Jane Dove: Pacific Light Press, 2010)
The Year of Adverbs (Auckland UP, 2008)
Horse Playing the Accordion (Ahadada Books, Tokyo & Toronto, 2007)
A Question of Gravity: Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2004)
Red Shoes (Godwit, 2003)
The Lark Quartet (Auckland UP, 1999)
The Tudor Style: Poems New and Selected (Auckland UP, 1993)
A Pattern of Marching (Auckland UP, 1989)
Animaux (Modern House, 1988)
Gorilla / Guerilla (with Gregory O’Brien: The Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 1986)
Professor Musgrove’s Canary (Auckland UP, 1986)
A Cortège of Daughters (Cloudforms, 1993)
Shakespeare Virgins (Auckland UP, 1983)
Casanova’s Ankle (Oxford UP, 1981)
The Legend of Marcello Mastroianni’s Wife (Auckland UP, 1981)
The Sarah Train (Hawk Press, 1980)
The Seventies Connection, Selected (with David Hill: McIndoe, 1980)
You’re Very Seductive William Carlos Williams (McIndoe, 1978)
Here Come the Clouds: Poems (A Taylor, 1975)
Fiction
Loving Sylvie (Allen & Unwin, 2019)
Lola (Penguin, 2010)
The Girl Who Proposed (Short stories: Cape Catley, 2008)
Different Kinds of Pleasure (Penguin, 2006)
Listening to the Everly Brothers & Other Stories (Short stories: Penguin, 2002)
The Sea Between Us (Penguin, 2003)
The Mathematics of Jane Austen and Other Stories (Godwit, 1997)
Mr Fish & Other Stories (Short stories: McIndoe, 1994)
Nights at the Embassy (Short stories: Auckland UP, 1990)
Brother-love, Sister-love (Hodder & Stoughton, 1986)
Tug Brothers (Children: Oxford UP, 1983)
First Blood (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
Creative Nonfiction
The Journal Box (Auckland UP, 1996)
Anthologies
The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poetry (Two Rivers Press, 2014)
Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets: An Anthology (Victoria UP, 2009)
A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex (Auckland UP, 2008)
The Cats’ Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats (Vintage, 2005)
The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape (Craig Potton Publishing, 2005)
It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on their Friendships (J Westaway: Longacre Press, 2003)
Morriesons Motel (Tandem Press, 2000)
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (ed. Michael Morrissey: Flamingo, 2000)
Te Whiti and Tohu: 12 poems about Parihaka (Commissioned by the Wellington City Gallery for exhibition, Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance, 2000)
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (Oxford UP, 1997)
The Source of the Song: New Zealand Writers on Catholicism (ed. Mark Williams: Victoria UP, 1995)
Degustation Domestique: Tart and Juicy: Food Stories from Australian and New Zealand writers (Vintage, 1994)
Poetry New Zealand (The Author, 1991)
Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women (Oxford UP, 1988)
An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Poetry (Oxford UP, 1987)
The New Gramophone Room: Poetry and Fiction (University of Auckland, 1985)