第二次世界大战后至70年代中是新西兰女性诗人的断代时期,全国两大诗人群体(一个是《弗里德》诗刊群体,另一个是首都惠灵顿诗人群体)中各自大概只有一位女诗人。然而仅1975年一年中劳洛·埃德蒙、雷恰尔·麦克平尔和伊丽莎白·史密斯三位女性不约而同发表了各自的诗集,这一事实震动了当时女性声音极其微弱的新西兰诗坛,令 From the second world war to the mid-1970s, it was the dynastic era of female poets in New Zealand. There were only about one female member in each of the two major poet groups in the country (one group of “Fried” poeticals and the other the Wellington poet group in the capital) poet. However, the fact that only three women of the same year, Laura Edmund, Regal Macpierre and Elizabeth Smith issued their own collections of poetry in a year of 1975, shocked the New Zealand poetry circle, when the voices of women were extremely weak,