Poetry NZ 37 (2008)

FRONT COVER:

Michele Leggott
[Cover photograph: Mark Fryer / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 37, 2008)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2008


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Michele Leggott / Background / 10
1. mirabile dictu / 11
2. te matau / the hook / 13
3. great readers / 15
4. te ahi tapu rakau / Jacob's fire song / 17
5. tell your mama / 20
6. nice feijoas / 22
7. slow reader / 24
8. elevador / 26
9. teatro della limonaia / 28
10. il mantello / the cloak / 30

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / Text / A painter’s ado / 32
4. E. Kristin Anderson / Coda for a philosopher / 35
5. Stu Bagby / Thorne Bay / 36
6. Joy Blair / A case of the dog in the night / 37
7. Sarah Broom / Crusade / 38
8. Jennifer Compton / Waipukurau / How the fuck do you say Termini! / 39
9. Geraldine Day / Proposal slips / 41
10. Sue Fitchett / between worlds / YES / 43
11. Jan FitzGerald / To a macrocarpa on death row / 45
12. David Flynn / The Siberian bride / 46
13. Basim Furat / Homage to Basho / 47
14. Michael Hall / What the meteorologist forgot to mention / 49
15. Alice Hooton / Paris 1939 / A pair of skates / Garibaldi / 50
16. Hayden Hyams / Letter to an agent / 53
17. David Ingram / Grapefruit marmalade / 55
18. Ian Irvine / The fifth eye of Dharma / 56
19. Arthur Kimball / When to buy a pint of mouthwash / 57
20. Will Leadbeater / The labours of someone as un-Herculean as myself / 58
21. Jessica Le Bas / He is going to Africa / Mzungu at the fish market / Africa (2) / The news from Africa / 59
22. Helen Lowe / Outback / Shout / 65
23. Ron McGurk / Trees / 67
24. John Millett / Lost city inside him / 68
25. Michael Morrissey / London and the sound of weeping / Roses made her talk / Forbidden topic / 69
26. Janet Newman / Puerto Vallarta, Mexico / 72
27. Michael O'Leary / Morningside station / 73
28. Jacqueline Ottaway / Reviewing Aunty Bud / 74
29. Sarah Penwarden / Blue / He was seen on the street / 75
30. Kerry Popplewell / Perfect / 77
31. Patricia Prime / Sun-flooded room / 78
32. L. E. Scott / You have been named / 79
33. Eric Paul Shaffer / How to make a lei / 80
34. Kerrin P. Sharpe / Half the story / 81
35. Barry Southam / The poker player / 82
36. Michael Steven / Matakana / 83
37. Elizabeth Sullivan / 2387 members currently online / A poem for your analytical mind / 85
38. Ginny Sullivan / After the flood / 88
39. Philip A. Waterhouse / Rack 'em / 89
40. Don Winter / Lonesome town / Posing / Mom: 1968 /Outlaw / 90

Comment:

41. John Horrocks / Truth telling: Michael Morrissey's poetry / 94

Review:

42. Jack Ross / Africa by Alistair Paterson / 100

Books and magazines in brief:

43. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 108

Notes on Contributors / 110

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