Poetry NZ 11 (1995)

FRONT COVER:

Gregory O'Brien
[Cover photograph & design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 11, 1995)

ISSN 0114-5770. 75 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row Publishing Co. Ltd., September 1995


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Greg O’Brien / Background / 10
   1. Descriptions I have heard of her / 11
   2. The Pinnacles / 13
   3. Unaccustomed Citizen / 14
   4. Small Swirl Pools and Vera's Pond / 15
   5. River Mortar / 18
   6. Play / 19
   7. Bay of Plenty / 19
   8. We were married / 20
   9. The Moment and History / 21
   10. A Fog / 22
   11. Epithalamium / 23

Other Poets

3. Raewyn Alexander / Angling the Wind / 24
4. John Birnie / Of the book his bones are made / Gutter / 25
5. Cyril Childs / The Match / 27
6. David Colbert / tennis / hope / 29
7. Robert Creeley / Goodbye / 31
8. Ian Crompton / Schrödinger's Cat / 33
9. Alison Denham / Happy Birthday Connor / 34
10. p n w donnelly / 940.5342 / 35
11. Robin Fry / Another Dimension / 36
12. Geoffrey Hitchcock / Rainy Birthday / The Botanist / 37
13. Alma A. Hromić / Resurget / 39
14. Jan L. Hutchison / A Letter to Hone / Marama weaves her flax / 40
15. Kapka Kassabova / Without the bottle / Moorea, easy paradise / 42
16. Gary Langford / Albatross at a Mutable Conference / But I Didn't / 44
17. Patricia Langridge / Patchwork / Aftermath / 46
18. Donna Lee / St Heliers Bay / The Failure / 48
19. Joy MacKenzie / Graves, Judges Bay / 50
20. Clare Mariskind / Gateway / 51
21. John Millett / Black Snake on a Riverbank / Poem for a Daughter / 52
22. Vivienne Plumb / The Rat Alley / Vanishing Cream / 54
23. Patricia Prime / Grandmother / 56
24. Helen Rickerby / When X doesn't mark the spot / 57
25. Sarndra Smith / Memorabilia / 58
26. Roland Vogt / Disappearance / 59
27. Robert Creeley / Nothing New / 61

Reviews:

28. Tom Beard / Dear Mr Sargeson by Riemke Ensing - Like I have Seen the Dark Green Ladder Climbing by Riemke Ensing / 64
29. Bernard Brown / View from the Turret by John Millett / 66
30. Stephanie Sheehan / How we met by Jenny Bornholdt / 68
31. Janet Wilson / The erasure tapes by Alan Loney / 69

Correspondence / 72

Publications Received / 73

Contributors / 74

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