Poetry NZ 39 (2009)

FRONT COVER:

Zarah Butcher
[Cover photograph: Zoe Butcher-McGunnigle / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Siobhan Harvey

(Issue 39, 2009)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

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


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Siobhan Harvey / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Zarah Butcher / Background / 10
1. Perspective / 11
2. Submerge / 12
3. The word / 13
4. Process / 14
5. (Life) cycle / 15
6. Lost and found / 16
7. The canary / 17
8. Self-portrait / 18
9. Between you and me / 19
10. Consumed / 20
11. Parabolas in French / 21
12. The question / 22
13. Unframed / 23
14. The reading / 24
15. A poem about illness / 25
16. Rest home / 26
17. Evolution / 27
18. Pain / 28
19. Junk in the attic / 30

Other Poets:

3. Raewyn Alexander / In the café of a hundred orange vases / 31
4. Leanne Auerbach / Taste of city / 32
5. Guy R. Beining / Clump columns 1 / Clump columns 2 / 33
6. Louis Daniel Brodsky / The stranger / 34
7. John Canham / Train journey to Wellington / 35
8. Linda Connell / Guarding the cellar door / Finding the graves / Mushrooms / 36
9. Shirley Deuchrass / Wind back the clock / 39
10. Johanna Emeney / Spinster / 40
11. Chris Eyes / Candle lit at Cuil-an-Daraich / 41
12. Joanne Fergusson / Risk / The ladder / 42
13. Jan FitzGerald / Letter to my brother / 43
14. Charlotte Flyte / Sandwiches and coffee / 45
15. Alexandra Fraser / OE / Today hurts / The kiss / 46
16. Ellen Friedman / Getting closer / 49
17. Dorothy Howie / In the between / 50
18. Norman Jope / Cosmic chess / Dreams of the Caucasus / 54
19. Will Leadbeater / Billy Bracken's second song / Impromptu 27 / 56
20. Jessica le Bas / Two dreams for daylight saving / Mainland / Autumn / 57
21. Terry Locke / In train / Fishing / 61
22. Olivia Macassey / Whatipu / A night / 63
23. Robert McLean / Practical magic / 65
24. Harvey McQueen / Goya rules / Did they kiss before they took poison? / 67
25. Robynanne Milford / On whitestream / 69
26. Martha Morseth / How can you be sure ... ? / 70
27. Janet Newman / His bones / The lump / 72
28. Rae Pater / Weedbones / 75
29. Sarah Penwarden / Eulogy / South island / 76
30. Sugu Pillay / The Cairnmuir terraces / Inheritance / 78
31. Vaughan Robertson / Oman sands, 2006 / 80
32. L. E. Scott / November 4, 2008 – this day in history / 82
33. Ginny Sullivan / Autumn roses / Angels in Jerusalem / Washing the eggs / 84
34. Jocelyne Thébault / I think from a green grove / Seeing at midnight / 87
35. K. C. Wilder / A basket case / A glance at the clock / 89
36. Saint James Wood / Just like nothing / 91
37. Zachary Wood / Night on the front / 92
38. Chen Ying / Blink / 93
39. Maria Zajkowski / Bison grass / Your town / 94
40. Karen Zelas / Migration / Summer in Ossetia / 95

Comment:

41. Helen Sword / Digipoiesis: Digital Poetry in Aotearoa/NZ / 98

Review:

42. Iain Sharp / If the Cap Fits: The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap by Michael Harlow / 102

Books and magazines in brief:

43. Siobhan Harvey / Short reviews of new publications /107

Notes on Contributors / 109

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