Poetic Obituaries: I am surprised as well as saddened to hear

of the sudden death of the poet, playwright, actor, scriptwriter, and film director Martyn Sanderson. Although he was in his eighth decade, Sanderson was still producing and acting in plays and writing poems.

Sanderson built his career at a time when the New Zealand movie industry was in its infancy, and when the barriers that separated film from literature and the rest of the arts were perhaps more permeable than they are today.

from Reading the Maps: Remembering Martyn Sanderson
also Pacific.Scoop: Well loved NZ, Pacific actor Martyn Sanderson dies

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