Poetry NZ 20 (2000)

FRONT COVER:

Stephanie de Montalk
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 20, 2000)

ISSN 0114-5770. 91 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row, March 2000


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Stephanie de Montalk / Background / 10
   1. Practically a Last Hero of Empire / 11
   2. Waiting for the 4.10 to Wellington / 16
   3. They tell me I've got a Very Alert Mind / 19
   4. Super Cork / 22

Other Poets:

3. Timothy Brehany / Life (as a long form of suicide) / 28
4. Bernard Brown / Alice through the Looking Glass / 29
5. William Cook / Psalm of the new way / 30
6. Waiata Dawn Davies / Muffins for Auntie May / 31
7. p n w donnelly / the angel / 32
8. Jaffray Geddes / Pulp Prose / 33
9. Clayton Hansen / Genoa Taxi / 34
10. Paula Harris / The Sushi Chef's Wife / above egypt / 35
11. Jenna Heller / Sunday in Auckland / 37
12. Jeremy Hilton / from: Listen to me Darkness / 39
13. Gordon Kennedy / time remembers nothing / 41
14. Simon Lewis / Anno Domini / and may never / 43
15. Lyn Lifshin / I remember Haifa / Trying not to be cynical / 44
16. David Llewellin / Drive it Right / 46
17. Sally Ann Mclntyre / Diagnosis / 47
18. James McNaughton / Fitzmovie / Light Fingered / 48
19. Harvey McQueen / A Continent Unvisited / 49
20. Susan Maurer / Bone Daddy / To Emily D in White / 50
21. James Norcliffe / the comedians / alone (with cactus) / 52
22. John O'Connor / Yellow Stone / The Birdcage / 54
23. Gerard Parry / Fishing the Wash / Hierapolis / 56
24. Mark Pirie / The House / The Talk / 58
25. Jenny Powell-Chalmers / Dyslexic child makes errors in night sky / 61
26. Paul Schimmel / No shirt, no shoes, no problem / 62
27. L. E. Scott / A Poem for God / 63
28. Pip Sheehan / Borrowing the tennis rackets / 65
29. Jane Simpson / The empty womb / The exhibit / 66
30. Richard Taylor / there were so many of us / 68
31. Jocelyne Thébault / Going with Water / Green Space / 69
32. Nick Williamson / Historic Places / 71
33. Andrew Paul Wood / Translations from the Etruscan / 72

Commentary:

34. John Allison / Getting to Know a Poem / 74

Reviews:

35. Alma Hromić / Drought by Pat White / The Inhabited Initial by Fiona Farrell / 82
36. Judith Peters / Unmanned by Stephen Oliver / 85

Books and Magazines in Brief:

37. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 86

Notes on Contributors / 90

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