Poetry New Zealand 4 (1979)

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Poetry New Zealand
Editor: Frank McKay

(Volume 4, 1979)

ISBN 0-908565-96-8. 88 pp.

Dunedin: John McIndoe Limited, 1979


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CONTENTS:

Preface:

1. Frank McKay / 9

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / A Day in October / Our Trip to the Federation / 11
3. Peter Bland / Lament for a Lost Generation / At Whitby / Giuthrie-Smith at Tutira / 14
4. *Anna Campion / Ears like so many sea shells litter the land and … / 17
5. *Ruth Dallas / Photographs of Pioneers Women / A Warm Evening / 18
6. Lauris Edmond / Morning in Christchurch / Greek Antiquities: First Floor / Round Oriental Bay / 20
7. *Murray Edmond / Beautiful Thing: On the visit of the nuclear Warshop Truxtun to Wellington / 22
8. Riemke Ensing / Two Poems for James / 24
9. *Helen Gabites / A Little Learning on the Way / Of Games We Never Meant to Lose / Getting into Love / 26
10. Ruth Gilbert / The Contrast / 28
11. Sam Hunt / Up Battle Hill / My Father Today / 29
12. Kevin Ireland / An Essay in Communication / Antidotes to Art / 31
13. Michael Jackson / Wall / Mask-Maker / Cattle Egrets / 33
14. Louis Johnson / Singing / Frigate Bird / 36
15. Fiona Kidman / Pact for Mother and Teen-ager / Earthquake Weather / 40
16. Alan Loney / Sphere Music / Elegy 2 / 42
17. *Rachel McAlpine / Te Kaha / Serenade for Sappho / One and One / 44
18. Frank McKay / St. Jerome Patron of Literary Men / 47
19. Bill Manhire / The Poetry Magazine / Contemplation of the Heavens / A Song about the Moon / 49
20. Barry Mitcalfe / On Visitors from the City / On Being Obliged to Teach / 52
21. *Beth Nannestad / Civil Servant / Parable for AnneMarie / Letter / Ruin / Senile / 54
22. Peter Olds / Wellington Street is Closed / 57
23. Vincent O'Sullivan / From a Sequence / If Our Country Was a Horse etc. / 58
24. Margaret Orbell / Translations of Three Maori Love Songs: Dawn Comes Up / Slave Girl’s Song / Yonder the Misty Headlands / 62
25. Alistair Paterson / Poems from The Toledo Room / 63
26. Gloria Rawlinson / Ms and the Cat Child / 65
27. *Keith Sinclair / Nightcat / 66
28. Elizabeth Smither / Casanova’s Ankle / Change of School / Reading Galway Kinnell / 68
29. Kendrick Smithyman / The Last Moriori / After Zhivago / 70
30. C. K. Stead / from Walking Westward / 72
31. John Summers / Old Lady at Her Toilet / 74
32. Brian Turner / Hooks / The Dissolute Life / 75
33. Hone Tuwhare / A Festival Letter/Poem to Friends / 77
34. Ian Wedde / Don’t Listen / 78
35. J. E. Weir / For My Grandmother / For My Grandfather / 82

Notes on Contributors / 85

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