Poetry NZ 26 (2003)

FRONT COVER:

Stephen Oliver
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 26, 2003)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2003


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Stephen Oliver / Background / 10
1. Noir / 11
2. Heaven / 23
3. from Romances / 24
4. A Country Mile / 26

Other Poets:

3. Rob Allan / The Poet Stands on Edge / 27
4. Joshua Auerbach / The Panther / Lac Lucerne Tao / 28
5. Peggy Aylsworth / This work / 30
6. Jane Blaikie / A two-year-old could do that (II) / 31
7. Owen Bullock / ample alone / untitled music / 32
8. Tony Chad / the day that wasn't / 34
9. Cyril Childs / signs / Street drama in Berkeley / Garden stuff / Cricket song III / 35
10. Barbara Crooker / On that day in September / Comet Hale-Bopp comes to Virginia / 37
11. Bron Deed / Songs for a drowned woman / 39
12. Blair Ewing / Homage to Apis mellifera / Sleed on Speep / 44
13. Robin Fry / Talking back to Billy / 46
14. Ira Gustavson / Visit / 47
15. Paula Harris / after dropping the fridge ... / 48
16. Karen Harryman / Confessions of a Failed Bar Hopper / 50
17. David Ingram / Hail, the Corporate Raider / 51
18. May Iremonger / O-Bali / 52
19. Konrad Kuiper / Two sonnets (untitled) / 53
20. Leicester Kyle / Sunday Morning in December / Ask of a Mortgage / 54
21. Jessica Le Bas / last leaf / 56
22. Elisabeth Liebert / Memo 2 to Theseus / 57
23. Andrea MacPherson / poem for a migratory woman / 58
24. Catherine Mair / Concepts of denial / Clay Turnings / 59
25. Adrianne Marcus / Gravity, Monticello ... / Der Rosenkavalier / 61
26. Betty Ann Matthews / The train and you / 63
27. Kirk Middlemiss / the blizzard / 64
28. Pooja Mittal / deep in the woods / cold hut / reasons for red / 67
29. James Norcliffe / Villon in Millerton / 70
30. Jacqueline Ottaway / The Bird Cage / 74
31. Vivienne Plumb / At the Queensland Poetry Festival / The Mall / 75
32. Jenny Powell-Chalmers / Maiko / Humming Bird House / 77
33. Joanna Preston / The symbolist professes undying ... / The symbolist tenders an apology / 79
34. Nadine Ribault / Drowned in Mist and Silence / 81
35. Jack Ross / Signs / Quasimodo's Last Poem / NZ Golf (and English) Academy / 83
36. Pip Sheehan / home is the arms around you / traveller's advantage / 86
37. Knute Skinner / A Mail-order Bride / 88
38. Olwyn Stewart / Notice Board / 89
39. Virgil Suárez / Ten views of my daughters ... / 90
40. Catherine Swanson / One Potato / 92
41. Richard Taylor / A spiral puzzle in fine lines / 93
42. Jocelyne Thébault / All Serious Needs / The Black Painting in the Music Room / 94
43. Marcus Turver / Stage Fright / 96
44. Sara Zettervall / The confusion started when / At the Sackler / Her Guest / Small Geometry / 97

Comment:

45. Tracey Slaughter / Points on a graph of Chantal: Chantal's Book by Jack Ross / 100

Books in brief:

46. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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