Poetry NZ 41 (2010)

FRONT COVER:

Richard Reeve
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Nicholas Reid

(Issue 41, 2010)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2010


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Nicholas Reid / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Richard Reeve / Background / 10
1. Fish for dinner / 11
2. Sunshed / 13
3. Love among the turbines / 15
4. Meeting in a field / 16
5. Mahinerangi / 17
6. Warrington dives / 21
7. The old breed / 22
8. Collaborator / 23
9. Bailout / 24
10. How to kill the Prime Minister / 25
11. Generation kitchen / 27

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / Footloose / Family / Moving out / 28
4. Heather Bauchop / Yesterday's tomorrow / 31
5. Zara Butcher / The window / 32
6. Fern G. Z. Carr / Why are the dead so still / 33
7. David Chadwick / The view from the hill / Dispensing with fantails ... / 34
8. Jennifer Compton / Imagining Jane / Sunday afternoons in Kings Park / 35
9. Majella Cullinane / Autumn is where you find it / Homecoming / 37
10. Gregory Dally / Towards simplicity / Okaka / 38
11. Shirley Deuchrass / Catlins shipwreck / 40
12. Belinda Diepenheim / Word sore / 41
13. Peter Dornauf / God is good / Afterlife / 42
14. Maryrose Doull / Alexandra Park is my farm now / 43
15. Anne French / Black notebook / In memory of Czeslaw Milosz / 45
16. Dave Gill / taxidermy / 47
17. Charles Hadfield / The climb / 48
18. Josie Charlotte Jackson / The dying painter / 49
19. Noel King / Grounded / 50
20. Leonard Lambert / Rainflowers / Harbour thoughts / 51
21. Joel LeBlanc / Tree of knowledge / 52
22. Joy MacKenzie / Awake / 53
23. Harvey Molloy / Moth eats word / 55
24. Janet Newman / To the works / A farmers daughter contemplates / 60
25. Mark Pirie / All White on the night / Report on Deserters ... / Elegy at Lyall Bay / Women, Flowers / 62
26. Vivienne Plumb / Zywiec / Vodka, my wife / Polish addictions / The konditorei / 66
27. Vaughan Rapatahana / postcolonial boy / 69
28. Harry Ricketts / Bider / Masters, reading / Understudy / Brandon St / 72
29. Richard Schurr / The syringa tree / 76
30. Iain Sharp / Lazy river poem / Westland, 1864 / A song for David Mitchell / The favourite moment / 77
31. Fred Simpson / Linaria / Birch seed / 82
32. C. K. Stead / The Maecenas of Lynn / Sixes and sevens / 84
33. Ann Walker / The family prospers / For a taupata / 87
34. Hayden Williams / Gambler's litany / 89
35. Alessio Zanelli / The last snow / 91

Comment:

36. Denys Trussell / Oz and Ruth Kraus as Brick Row Publishers / 92

Review:

37. Siobhan Harvey / On David Mitchell and John O’Connor: Steal Away Boy and Cornelius & Co / 100

Books and magazines in brief:

38. Nicholas Reid / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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