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The sailor lives, and stands beside us, paying
Out into time's wave
The stain of blood that writes an island story.


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Simply by sailing in a new direction
You could enlarge the world.


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Born: June 17, 1911
Died: September 23, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Thomas Allen Munro Curnow was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University.
Known for:
  1. Early days yet (1997)
  2. Look Back Harder (1987)
  3. The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001)
  4. Donald Davie, Samuel Menashe, Allen Curnow
  5. An incorrigible music (1979)

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