Elizabeth Edwina Smither MNZM (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer.
Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian.
[1][2] Her first collection of poetry, Here Come the Clouds, was published in 1975, when she was in her mid-thirties.
[2] Harry Ricketts, writing for The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, describes her strength as being "the short poem, usually but not always unrhymed, witty, stylish and intellectually curious".
He also notes that her poetry tends to feature figures from literature and legends, as well as Catholicism.