Poetry NZ 35 (2007)

FRONT COVER:

Nicolas Kurtovich
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 35, 2007)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2007


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Three New Caledonian Poets (trans. Jean Anderson) / Background / 10
3. Nicolas Kurtovich / 11
1. Two Days in Pouitchala / 11
2. Ode to the Poor / 14
3. Living at the Foot of Kaala Mountain / 15
4. Frédéric Ohlen / 25
1. I remember the human zoos / 25
2. The wind lifts the skirt of the trees / 27
3. They will be lovers / 27
4. The little old scavenging woman / 28
5. Paul Wamo / 30
1. Morning has come / 30
2. The same music / 30
3. Emergency exit / 31
4. Unfiction / 31
5. More / 32
6. Chorus of the vines / 32

Other Poets:

6. Raewyn Alexander / happy is when pain forgets its music / shoes will eat you / 33
7. Rob Allan / News of Otago / Revisiting Clinton by Highway One / 34
8. Stu Bagby / 1953 / 35
9. Kerry Craig / Belonging / Teachers / 36
10. Jen Crawford / museum to the memory of war / 37
11. Peter Crisp / A slender silhouette / Kotuku / 40
12. Waiata Dawn Davies / Ireland unvisited / 42
13. Shirley Deuchrass / This is it / 43
14. Nicola Easthope / College reunion / The end of the month / 44
15. David Flynn / The man who played cricket ... / 46
16. Basim Furat / Man of blood / Life runs wherever you catch it / A descendant / 49
17. Rhian Gallagher / The work of longing / 52
18. Jane Griffin / Dialogue 3 / 53
19. Michael Hall / A South Pacific way of looking / Voice / 54
20. Trevor Hayes / Practising Spanish adjectives / Foreign house plants / 56
21. Arthur Kimball / At the Victrola / 57
22. Leonard Lambert / Huntress / White winds / 58
23. Will Leadbeater / Her name is the title of the poem / 60
24. Jessica Le Bas / notes / swamp journey, without my mother / a doctor poem / 61
25. Olivia Macassey / Like trophies / Boxing Day / Untitled (jouissance) / 64
26. Robert McLean / A crepuscule of Rapaki / An Antipodean interment / 67
27. John Millett / A wife / 69
28. A. Mary Murphy / my humiliation spread like jam / my mother could make pinwheels / 71
29. Mark A. Murphy / Britain / 72
30. Art Nahill / My eight-year old son asks ... / Creation myth / 75
31. Julia O'Connor / Affair / 77
32. Jacqueline Ottaway / The otherworld / Litany of our fathers / 78
33. Helen Patrice / Wet 2 / David – at age 5 / 80
34. Vivienne Plumb / Rural delivery / 82
35. Nicholas Reid / Harar / Silverfish / 83
36. Anna Rugis / Conjudo a la vela – an ass under full sail / 86
37. Peter Jay Shippy / Musique concrètism / 88
38. Elizabeth Sullivan / The green shirt / Examination snapshots / 89
39. Ann Walker / Providence at Ruakura Research Station / 92
40. Laura M. Wiseman / amnesty international australia / Unknown unknowns / 94

Comment:

41. Jack Ross / Irony and After: New bearings in NZ poetry / 95

Review:

42. Bernard Gadd / Incognito by Jessica Le Bas / 104

Books and magazines in brief:

43. Owen Bullock / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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