Poetry NZ 28 (2004)

FRONT COVER:

Anne Kennedy
[Cover photograph: Robert Sullivan / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 28, 2004)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2004


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Anne Kennedy / Background / 10
1. The Wedding Ring Lost to the Sea ... / 11
2. What Fell / 15
3. The Road Code / 17
4. Sung / 19

Other Poets:

3. Shanta Acharya / The Milkmaid / 28
4. Wendy S. Abramowitz / Divided / 29
5. Joshua Auerbach / Waiting for Transition / Tail of the Tiger / 30
6. Joe Bacal / Yeah, Right / Sorrow / 32
7. Ruth Bavetta / Sustenance / 34
8. David Beach / Chess (4) / 35
9. Tania Brady / Owen's ampersand and me / punctuation / 36
10. lain Britton / Incandescence / 19th Century Lovers / 38
11. Catherine Bullock / The Life of ... / 41
12. Jennifer Compton / Tales of Brave Ulysses / Magpie and Lizard / Re: Reincarnation / 43
13. Christina Conrad / wrapped stoats / manacles / buttons / 45
14. Tony Cosier / Wild Strawberries / 48
15. Lee Dowrick / For Shirley / 49
16. Kelly Norah Drukker / I am born / 50
17. David Eggleton / Visions of Suburbia / 52
18. Riemke Ensing / Towards Fourteen Ways ... / All that Red / Summer in the Garden of Eden / Receipt for Joy / 53
19. Robin Fry / Easter Voices / 57
20. Lola Haskins / The Grapefruit Tree / 58
21. Shahrokh Izadi / The wandering / 59
22. Carolyn Jess / Postcards / 60
23. Seaborn Jones / Berlin / 61
24. Stephen Kopel / bologna on rye / 62
25. Leicester Kyle / Chrysalis / 63
26. Jessica Le Bas / a mathematician talks to me ... / 64
27. Simon Lewis / Influences / Worn out / 65
28. Holly Luhning / Decomposition / 66
29. Robert McLean / It is hers / Church Hill, Nelson / 67
30. Adrianne Marcus / Once Poor / King Lear: Take Two / 69
31. Susan Maurer / El Lobo / 71
32. John Millett / Restauranteur at a High Rise – / The Wombat / 72
33. Pooja Millal / diaries of a marked man / 74
34. Edward Mycue / Oarless / 79
35. Eileen Myles / Resolution / 80
36. Ouyang Yu / Burning / When that person died / 82
37. Simon Perris / Paradelle for Africa and you in it / ‘An Elementary Primer’ / A Short Guide to the Geometry of Lack / 84
38. Angelina Polonskaya / Still Life with Potato Field / 87
39. Barbara Raeburn / Thanking the wrong lover / 88
40. Helen Rickerby / Treasure / TV News / 89
41. Jack Ross / A Sunday Walk / Coromandel / 91
42. Barry L. Smith / Up Valley / Flight of a Stone Bird / 93
43. Tze Ming Mok / 'Three Represents' ... / 95
44. Leah Welch / In the backyards of Alabama / 99

Comment:

45. Blair Ewing / Poetry and Mass Culture / 100

Review:

46. David Eggleton / Gallery: A Selection; poems by Mark Pirie / 103

Books in brief:

47. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 106

Notes on Contributors / 110

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