Poetry NZ 24 (2002)

FRONT COVER:

Michael Harlow
[Cover photograph: Otago Daily Times / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 24, 2002)

ISSN 0114-5770. 95 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2002


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Michael Harlow / Background / 10
1. Such dark silks / 11
2. La Trapéziste / 12
3. And, yes / 13
4. Longing for harmonies, lettre de Menton / 14
5. Désir d'harmonies, lettre de Menton / 15
6. Reading Mandelstam / 16
7. Cassandra's daughter / 17
8. 'Cremation Blues' / 18
9. Doppelgänger, Greetings / 19
10. The Insomnia Notebook, 4 am / 20
11. 'Cucumbers and Mad Apples' / 22
12. On Day-release / 23
13. Anti-gravity / 24
14. Learning the Language / 25
15. The Dark Twin / 26

Other Poets:

3. Raewyn Alexander / the sky scrolls horizon-fresh pages / caught in the dark hallway ... / 27
4. Peter Bakowski / A letter from Antonin Besse / Portrait of the question mark / 28
5. Vincent Berquez / A to Ω / 30
6. Tony Beyer / Victropolis / 31
7. Cyril Childs / Cricket Song II / Where I'll be / 33
8. Stephanie de Montalk / Solatium / 34
9. Lee Dowrick / the bay / 36
10. Riemke Ensing / Two poems for Jan Kemp / Rain / 37
11. Mark Farrell / Poem in a Bottle / 39
12. Michael Farrell / he rows / hey / 40
13. Janis Freegard / Café Tales / 42
14. Robin Fry / Spring in Boston / 43
15. Jeffrey Harpeng / A L’Heure De L’Observatoire / 44
16. Paula Harris / Seven Little Lies / 45
17. Mary K. Herbert / On the couch / Staring at a painting by George Stubbs / 47
18. Rob Jackaman / Rave on / 49
19. Harry Johnson / Way to go / 51
20. Miranda Johnson / The moon is a cake / Listening to Peter / 53
21. Kapka Kassabova / Eaglereach / The crossing / 55
22. John Kinsella / Poltergeist House Eclogue / 57
23. Gary Langford / Snake on the rise / Snakehouse / 59
24. Sándor Lau / Francis / 61
25. Jessica Le Bas / journey south / 63
26. Simon Lewis / Counting me in / 64
27. Harvey McQueen / After the Disaster / 65
28. Adrianne Marcus / The New Table / 66
29. Eric Mould / Sagarmatha / 67
30. Dennis Phillips / Moon (with shadow) / Four Things Imagined (with maps) / 68
31. Lewis Scott / Disciples of midnight / 70
32. David Starkey / Persimmons / Morning Breath / 72
33. Anita Treefoot / raw contradictions / 74
34. Mílena Wièczorek / Talitha Kumi / Return (I) / 75
35. Sara Zettervall / Neil exclaimed I'm quitting poetry / Since Feeling is First / 77

Comment:

36. Grant Duncan / Nationhood and writing: why poetry doesn't matter any more / 80

Review:

37. Mark Pirie / Louis Johnson, Selected Poems, ed. Terry Sturm / 87

Books in brief:

38. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 91

Notes on Contributors / 94

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