Poetry NZ 32 (2006)

FRONT COVER:

Jessica Le Bas
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 32, 2006)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2006


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Jessica Le Bas / Background / 10
1. under, cross over / 11
2. room / 12
3. map of the other side / 13
4. in the umbrella house / 14
5. between pylons / 15
6. inventories / 16
7. the rent was never paid / 17
8. valleys and troughs / 18
9. naked almanach / 19
10. weight / 20
11. trig point / 21
12. giving nothing away / 22
13. snake and ladder / 23
14. the stories not told / 24
15. you know how it is / 25
16. stop go / 26

Other Poets:

3. Jenny Argante / A walk in my neighbourhood / 27
4. Cherie Barford / Pandanus moons / 28
5. David Bath / Family photographs / 30
6. Joy Blair / Like / 32
7. Louis Daniel Brodsky / Gastronome / Driving into twilight / 33
8. Owen Bullock / listenings / 35
9. Jennifer Compton / taking photographs without a camera / making up for lost time / 37
10. Jan FitzGerald / The Matata Slips / 40
11. Bernard Gadd / Homer turns from Troy ... / Appreciations of Ezra Pound / 41
12. Diane Glancy / I ask about seal hunting / Wyandote County ... / 44
13. May Iremonger / Daddy don't care / 46
14. Timothy Kaiser / Minibus 14M / Chinese family on minibus ... / 47
15. Leicester Kyle / Rules of engagement / 49
16. Norm Levine / Clutter / 50
17. Kent MacCarter / Your shipping industry ... / 51
18. Carolyn McCurdie / Chair in an empty room / 53
19. Margot Zucker Mindich / At the Lincoln Square Library / 54
20. Tammy Ho Lai Ming / Newest, hottest, tallest, the most London / 55
21. Susan Minot / Kosovo Polje / 56
22. Elizabeth Morton / Heliotropes / As it is / The gyroscope / 58
23. Andrew O'Donnell / from Osaka / 62
24. Regina O'Melveny / Cara Mamina / War bride / 64
25. Nicholas Reid / Lamartine / Cicada / 66
26. Helen Rickerby / Enchantress of numbers / 69
27. Anna Rugis / Round like / Aboriginal / 74
28. Ginny Sullivan / Cave painting / Roses, not forever / 76
29. Ryan G. Van Cleave / The art of conquest / 78
30. K. C. Wilder / strummin the cosmic guitar / 80
31. Cyril Wong / Abhinaya / 82

Comment:

32. Jack Ross / Denys Trussell – poet, musician, ecologist / 85

Reviews:

33. Suzanne Nola / Collected Poems of Alistair Campbell / 94
34. Roger Horrocks / diaries of a marked man and Musings on Poetry by Pooja Mittal / 100

Books in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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