Poetry NZ 38 (2009)

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[Cover photograph: Nic Brown / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Jack Ross

(Issue 38, 2009)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2009


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Jack Ross / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Jen Crawford / Background / 10
1. from Pop Riveter / 11

Other Poets:

3. Johanna Aitchison / We Have Come to Collect Our Lives / Sibling Rivalry / 27
4. Raewyn Alexander / ‘Men a mystery to me’ / Beautiful liars and their gloss / 29
5. Rosetta Allan / Uncle / 31
6. Ruth Arnison / The bare facts / 32
7. Serie Barford / The Takaka Effect / 33
8. Guy R. Beining / A knight without armorment / 34
9. Robert James Berry / Rasputin / 35
10. Iain Britton / Pania / 36
11. Tony Chad / Signature Brand / 37
12. Janet Charman / Wahine / 38
13. Jennifer Compton / – I Like That Clown / The Pines / 39
14. Craig Cotter / rice balls for son / 41
15. Brett Cross / Prophet / 42
16. Shirley Deuchrass / Aestralata lessoni / 43
17. Grant Duncan / Conductress / Crepusculum / 44
18. J. J. Fagan / Kumara Diggers / 46
19. Derek Fenton / A Tale of Two Heroes / 47
20. Sue Fitchett / Sweet & sour notes / 48
21. Janis Freegard / Magpie / 49
22. Michael Hall / Small town takeaway / 50
23. Alice Hooton / Café Black Cat / Mrs Casy / 51
24. David Howard / On Bertolt Brecht’s Birthday / You should have seen them go / Come down / 53
25. Linda Hunter / Moon Creek / 56
26. Hayden Hyams / Rattle / Waitakere / 57
27. Helen Jacobs / The White of Winter / 59
28. Sophia Johnson / These hills / 60
29. Mahdy Khaiyat / Nice / 61
30. Leonard Lambert / Curtain-call / 62
31. Noel Monahan / The Calf-Bearer / 63
32. Tim Nees / Buying Power / 64
33. Jenny O’Brien / Night / 65
34. John O’Connor / Five Haiku / River Talk / 66
35. Jacqueline C. Ottaway / Tales out of School / André Went to Christchurch / 68
36. Mark Pirie / The Park / 70-71
37. Kerry Popplewell / Konini School, 1910 / Summer 1943 / 72
38. Lee Posna / An Address / A degree in November Spring / Blood in the mountain / 74
39. Richard Reeve / Inquisition / Elegy / Dawn / 77
40. Nicholas Reid / Homage to Diogenes / 80
41. Michael Sharkey / Young Woman with a Tea-Towel / 82
42. Michael Steven / On Francis Street / Seventeen Seconds: Mahurangi Ridge / The eel (after Montale) / 83
43. Ann Walker / Notes on a Day / The day Lauris Edmond died / 87
44. Saint James Harris Wood / Cash Crow, Cash Crow / Tumbleweed / 89

Comment:

45. Lee Posna / Contemporary American Poetry / 93

Review:

46. Richard Reeve: / Classic, Contemporary and New NZ Poets in Performance ed. Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (3 vols) / 101

Books and magazines in brief:

47. Jack Ross / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 109

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