Poetry NZ 8 (1994)

FRONT COVER:

Amanda Eason
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 8, 1994)

ISSN 0114-5770. 66 pp.

Auckland: Brick Row Publishing Co. Ltd., March 1994


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Amanda Eason / Background / 10
   1. Moon Over Bonnington Square / 11
   2. Call These Hills? / 12
   3. You Wake in the Night / 13
   4. Hypothermia / 14
   5. Semi-Precious / 15
   6. The Neglected Husband / 16

Other Poets

3. Tara Satyanand / Asking / 17
4. John Millett / Concorde Flight to New York / The Herons at Pinnacle Point / 18
5. Kevin Ireland / Left for Dead / 21
6. Riemke Ensing / Nara / Well / Matisse / 22
7. Tony Lee / Passive Cantonese / 24
8. Raewyn Alexander / Sphinx / 25
9. Sandra Simpson / Another Poem for KM / 26
10. Alistair Paterson / The Conquistadors / 27
11. Stephen Oliver / "Bob Orr” / Wardrobe Drinkers / 28
12. Jenny Vuglar / Daughter: Post Operative / 30
13. Ian Crompton / Lady of the Windows / Four Letter Words / 34
14. Grant Duncan / Airmail from Tuscany / 36
15. Trixie Te Arama Menzies / from Summer the Driver, and the Tour Guide Moon Fair Helen / 36
16. Bemard Gadd / Another Nobby Clark / 39
17. James Norcliffe / poem of the mechanical parrot / 41
18. Marg Ranger / Tabula Rasa / Karaoke Night / 43
19. Bob Orr / Bream Bay / One Summer / Waiheke / 45
20. Jennifer Compton / The Best Poems of 1943 / 48
21. Bron Deed / Penitence / Swinging into Your Eyes / Eurydice Returns to the Underworld / 50
22. Jaffray Geddes / Night / Force of Rain ... Falling / 53
23. Denys Trussell / In the Year 499 of Columbus, America / 55
24. Norman Simms / The Day of Conversion / The Authority of Passion / 59
25. Julie Leibrich / A Winter's Day / Gertrude, Muriel et al / Perspectives / 61
26. Michael Morrissey / Art is the Acceptable Salvage / The Children / 63

Contributors / 65

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