Poetry NZ 44 (2012)

FRONT COVER:

Maris O'Rourke
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Siobhan Harvey

(Issue 44, 2012)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2012


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Siobhan Harvey / 7

Featured Poet:

2. Maris O'Rourke / Background / 8
1. Lifelines / 9
2. Separation / 15
3. Pathfinder / 16
4. Selling the family tent / 17
5. Engagements / 19
6. Beijing boys / 20
7. Three encounters on Rannoch Moor / 21
8. The green house / 24

Other Poets:

3. Rosetta Allan / A mother reads / 25
4. Joy Blair / The Lone Ranger again / Queen Street / 26
5. Michael Botur / Ways to die in the South Is. / 28
6. Norbert Bugeja / Notes from Jimbaran Bay / Poetry / 30
7. Owen Bullock / good morning, Marina / space, the first frontier / 32
8. Tony Chad / Understanding / 7 reasons for going to a poetry workshop / 34
9. Medb Charleton / At Café L’Affare with Wallace Stevens / Another kind of night / 37
10. Mary Cresswell / Petition to the prisoner / Here there be tygers / 39
11. Maryrose Doull / Fitting trees into a city garden / Meeting at Blue Duck Creek / Layers of happiness / 41
12. Jo Emeney / Portrait of a girl sitting backwards ... / Play / Ducklings / 43
13. Alexandra Fraser / Some memes to shape you / The fridge in the mangroves / 45
14. Robin Fry / Café au lait / 48
15. Jaffray Geddes / An experiment with the reality ... / In the shine of early birdsong / 50
16. Stephen Haven / Watch / Room in a room / Self-portraits with African cichlids / 52
17. Kelly-lee Hickey / Requiem / First taste / 57
18. Dorothy Howie / In the gaps / 58
19. Linda Hunter / in the museum / 59
20. Norman Jope / Chasing balloons / In sunshine and shade / 61
21. Jan Kemp / a kiss, imagined / babysitting / body language / 63
22. Koenraad Kuiper / Tyrants / 66
23. Philip Loyd / Harriet Houdini / 67
24. Robynanne Milford / The king / 69
25. Keith Nunes / Accident / 70
26. Rae Pater / Earthquake / Communion / 71
27. Sugu Pillay / Cathedral Square, Chtistchurch / Shape-shifter landscapes / 73
28. Mark Pirie / Merv Wallace: a cricket master / The edge of love / 74
29. Tony Ramsay / Burning on the salt pan / 76
30. Nicholas Reid / Just for you / The box / 77
31. Helen Rickerby / Duchess / 80
32. Jeremy Roberts / Irish bar in Takapuna / Invitations from unknown places / 81
33. Jack Ross / Cook on Easter Island / Never give up / 83
34. Rachel Sawaya / Feast / 85
35. Eric Paul Shaffer / River eye / Invisible ink / 86
36. Mohamad Atif Slim / Taniwha / 88
37. Ginny Sullivan / Queen of the river / The remaining miles / 89
38. Bill Sutton / Wheelchairing / 91
39. Denys Trussell / Moon and hymn over Hauraki / 93
40. Ryan Van Winkle / Moths / Untitled / 94

Comment:

41. Robert McLean / On Originality (Again) / 98

Review:

42. Peter Simpson / Coming Ashore by Peter Bland / 103

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 109

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