Poetry NZ 21 (2000)

FRONT COVER:

David Eggleton
[Cover photograph: F. J. Neuman / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 21, 2000)

ISSN 0114-5770. 91 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row, September 2000


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. David Eggleton / Background / 10
1. Born under a rhyming planet / 11
2. Forever Barbie / 15
3. Explorers / 16
4. Household god / 17
5. The wedding / 19
6. Relatives and relations / 20
7. Descent from Mount Aspiring / 22
8. Cutlets for King Kumara / 24
9. Bouquet of dead flowers / 25

Other Poets:

3. Raewyn Alexander / born backwards /people clean their houses / there's a doctor of literature / 26
4. Rob Allan / The poet considers how to call himself / The poet admits to a childhood of a kind / 29
5. Tony Beyer/ The library / 31
6. Iain Britton / On a good day / 35
7. Roger Caldwell / A taste of gun-oil / 36
8. Jennifer Compton / Standing orders / 38
9. Alison Daniel / Athena had the shits / 39
10. Belinda Diepenheim / there is a right time to fish / hot ink / 40
11. John Doorty / Character shopping / Hard times / 42
12. Eugene Dubnov / To the memory of Joe Dimmock / Sky's and earth's edge / 44
13. Grant Duncan / Empty riddle / Hal reminisces / 45
14. Riemke Ensing / Shoah / Here I give thanks / 46
15. Blair Ewing / (Stochastics) / Memo to a non-admirer / 48
16. Jonathan Fisher / Six part lust story / 51
17. Robin Fry / I don't care if I sleep under a boat / Phoenix / 53
18. Helen Jacobs / The river / 55
19. Mike Johnson / Back down south / A brief personal history of the 20th century / 56
20. Jan Kemp / Queen of the castle / 57
21. Barbara McCartney / ake ake / 59
22. Gillian McGrath / Your voice on air / 60
23. Catherine Mair / Tagging / 61
24. Pooja Mittal / All the world trades in / 62
25. Ron Murray / Pushing dust / 64
26. Vivienne Plumb / Arahura / Cup / 65
27. Kerry Popplewell / Cimitero degli Acattolico / 67
28. Patricia Prime / The broken bough / 68
29. Helen Rickerby / Orpheus plays movie soundtracks / The lives of the dead and famous / 69
30. Denise Sammons / Inside I am breaking / 71
31. Ian C. Smith / Enigma / 72
32. Virgil Suarez / Cuidado/Excerpts from the Book of Warnings / News from those who've made it / 73
33. Jo Thorpe / Imperial words / 76
34. Anne Tucker / in her bedroom / white napkin / 77
35. Ryan G. Van Cleave / God does not appear anywhere / Understory like endless rain / 78

Comment:

36. Jack Ross / Necessary oppositions? Avant-garde vs traditional poetry in New Zealand / 80
37. Riemke Ensing / Rock of ages – the Katikati walkway / 84

Books and Magazines in Brief:

38. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 85

Notes on Contributors / 90

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