NZ Poetry Yearbook 11 (1964)

FRONT COVER:

New Zealand Poetry Yearbook
Editor: Louis Johnson

(Volume 11, 1964)

111 pp.

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1964


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TITLE PAGE:

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CONTENTS:

Introduction:

1. Louis Johnson / Preface / The Year the Drought Broke / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / Unexpected Visit / 33
3. Peter Alcock / Imitations of Eluard: I. Wars-End Song (Poèmes pour la paix) / II. Of Human Bondage (Nous sommes) / 34
4. Elizabeth Allo / Earthquake Country / Student Congress 1962 / 36
5. *K. O. Arvidson / That Woman Like a Season, but Not This / 38
6. *Sylvia Ashton-Warner / Songs of Recovery / 39
7. James K. Baxter / At Serrières / Single Beach Poem / The Eumenides (For Louis Johnson) / The Man in the Cloud / The Gilr in Yellow Jeans / A Travelling Salesman’s Winter Meditation / The Minute of Danger / The Jawbone of a Dog / 43
8. Peter Bland / Four Satirical Sonnets: I. Consultant / II. Husband to Husband / III. Train Home / IV. Past the Tin Butterflies and Plaster Gnomes / Ghosts / A State House Haunting / Kumara God / Mother / A Poor Congregation: For C. D. / 50
9. Paula Hanger Birch / All Souls / 53
10. Alistair Campbell / Against Te Rauparaha / 54
11. Gordon Challis / Treatise on Maze-Learning / The Translator / The Oracle, Mark II / Elegy for H. F. / 57
12. Charles Doyle / The Intelligent Reader / Haiku / Transfigurations / Being Here (or Anywhere) / Otipua Remembered / Representation of a Representation of a Representation / The / 64
13. Marilyn Duckworth / For a Modern Marriage / 69
14. Chris Duval Smith / Non-Smoker / Epitaph / The Fates / 69
15. *R. G. Frean / From Endymion: Endymion Awake / Clash by Night / Endymion Weary / 71
16. Louis Johnson / Procrastinator / North Island Road / My Wife Doesn’t Understand Me / The Spy’s Report / 73
17. Suzanne Johnston / Marcel Marceau – A Tribute / 77
18. J. M. Lasenby / Working Between Christmas and New Year / Intimations of Mortality / 78
19. *Owen Leeming / At Home with Cold / Crossing the Tasman / For a Twenty-First / 80
20. F. M. McKay / Harbour Graveyard / Ithaca (for J. E. Weir) / 82
21. Kenneth McKenney / Night / First Light / Calling Bird / New Day / Fijian Woman / 84
22. Philip Mincher / To Kafka / Downstream / 87
23. *Vincent O'Sullivan / November Afternoon / When the Angels Called / Mind’s City, Heart’s Stockade / 89
24. Richard Packer / Declining the Mustard / Love of Learning / 91
25. *Martyn Sanderson / Church-Goer / To Become / Tree / Exploration in Solitude / Meeting / Towards a Climax / Growing up in the Family / Poem / Beggar / A Sort of Deciding / Poem / 92
26. Stuart Slater / Illuminations / Astronomy / 97
27. *Helen Shaw / The Very Word Itself / The Only Possibility / Wonderful Will Be / 100
28. Earle Spencer / An Apprentice Out of His Time / From Rhododendrons On / The Ex-Prospector / 101
29. Robert Thompson / The Hidden Mower Moves / Who is My Key-Less Woman / Lines for a Twentieth Century Cave Woman / 104
30. Hubert Witheford / Poet at Bay / Public House / Shades of the Prison House Begin to Fade / What is a Question? / On the Spiral / Lines Written Upon Westminster Bridge / 105
31. *Mark Young / The Quarrel / 108

Acknowledgments / 109

Biographical Notes / 110

(* denotes new contributor)

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