Poetry NZ 17 (1998)

FRONT COVER:

Paula Green
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 17, 1998)

ISSN 0114-5770. 91 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row Publishing Co. Ltd., September 1998


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Paula Green / Background / 10
1. home / 11

Other Poets

3. Raewyn Alexander / Hold / 25
4. John Allison / The Journal of Robert Delaunay / White Noise, New Year / 26
5. Tony Beyer / Personal Matter / 29
6. Charles Bukowski / little theatre in Hollywood / nobody home / 30
7. Philippa Christmas / Arrival / 34
8. Tom Clark / Out of the Fog / Light Sleeper / Bach's Booty / Earthshine / Prolepsis / 35
9. Jennifer Compton / Amulet / 38
10. Kay McKenzie Cooke / Proper Endings / Seeing Someone at the Airport / 39
11. Stephanie de Montalk / Ode to Small Things ... / 40
12. Lee Dowrick / cannibals 2 / 41
13. Riemke Ensing / Parables with a four coloured bowl ... / Blood Falls / 42
14. Bernard Gadd / Catullus Aging / 44
15. Claire Goodwin / I used to know you / 46
16. Alma Hromić / Ordinary Days / 48
17. Harry Johnson / The Three Tenors / 49
18. Jan Kemp / The Ballad of Donna Quixote / 50
19. August Kleinzahler / Diablo: A Recipe / Sunday Morning / 53
20. Konrad Kuiper / Untitled / 58
21. Leicester Kyle / The Lady Meets the New Land / 59
22. Trevor Landers / A Prague Bed / 60
23. Donna Lee / Zambesi River Bank / 61
24. Lorraine Marwood / A Salt Desert Donkey / 62
25. Gary Mutton / Status / 63
26. John O'Connor / The Rotary Washer / 64
27. Ruth Pink / "One percent warmer ...” / 65
28. Jenny Powell-Chalmers / Gulli-gulli Man / 67
29. Patricia Prime / A View of India / 68
30. Suzanne Sennitt- Warner / Separation/Connection / 69
31. Iain Sharp / 1849 (A Footnote) / A Query / 70
32. Tracey Slaughter / l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e / 72
33. Rae Varcoe / Sheets in the Wind / 74
34. Mark Wilkins / Speaking of the Dead / 75
35. Nick Williamson / Portrait of Betty Curnow / 76

Comment:

36. August Kleinzahler / Where it's at in America / 77

Book Reviews and Events:

37. Mark Pirie / The Oxford History of NZ Literarure in English ed. Terry Sturm / 80
38. Alma Hromić / Walking into the Millennium by Denys Trussell / 84
39. Catherine Mair / Tauranga Poetry Festival / 86

Books and Magazines in Brief:

40. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 87

Notes on Contributors / 90

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