Poetry NZ 12 (1996)

FRONT COVER:

Jennifer Compton
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 12, 1996)

ISSN 0114-5770. 75 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row Publishing Co. Ltd., March 1996


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Jennifer Compton / Background / 10
1. poetry new zealand, volume one / 11
2. Returning to the text / 13
3. Women Writers / 17
4. The Dark Bay Mare ... / 18
5. Birthday / 19
6. Blood / 20
7. Whisky / 21

Other Poets:

3. Rob Allan / Epode to the leaking signifier / Ode to Experience vs Word Fix / 22
4. John Allison / The Rothco Testament / Mathilde Vollmoeller ... / To Music / 24
5. B. W. Beynon / Terra Nova / 28
6. Alan Brunton / The Sonnets / 29
7. kenneth fea / nihilitas / 33
8. Virginia Fenton / Forwarding Address / 34
9. Robin Fry / Equinox / 36
10. Judith Haswell / The Blue Pear / 37
11. Leicester Kyle / Walking to Taylor's / 38
12. Nicholas Laing / Fugue / 41
13. Graham Lindsay / Some kind of writer / 42
14. Catherine Mair / Beneath Annapurna / Tomorrow and a Safe Harbour / 43
15. Barry Morrall / Backpackers / 46
16. Martha Morseth / Sepia / I/You / 47
17. John O’Connor / This Long / Return to the Green World / 48
18. Alistair Paterson / The Status of Men / 50
19. Mark Pirie / Placing the Self within the Scene / 51
20. Jenny Powell-Chalmers / Poem for Hone Tuwhare / The Fomison Opening / 54
21. Sandra Simpson / Enclosed Wheatfield with Reaper / 56
22. Barbara Strang / to a nude / 57
23. Pine Tamahori / Black Gaza / 58
24. John Tarlton / Cotswolds Calling / 59
25. Vivienne Ullrich / Sheherazade / 60
26. Jenny Vuglar / Hannah – nine months / The Sheep / 61
27. Maureen Weldon / Of Crossed Wires / Like Soap Bubbles / 63

Reviews:

28. Helen Watson White / end of the dry by Janet Charman / Empty Orchestra by David Eggleton / Photographs by Albert Wendt / 65
29. Tom Beard / Water, Leaves, Stones by Dinah Hawken / Go Round Power Please by James Brown / 70

Books and Magazines in Brief:

30. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 72

Notes on Contributors / 74

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