Poetry NZ 47 (2013)

FRONT COVER:

Harry Ricketts
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 47, 2013)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2013


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 7

Featured Poet:

2. Harry Ricketts / Background / 8
1. 1970 / 9
2. Flat / 14
3. The dentist / 15
4. 10 to 3 / 19
5. Pewsey / 22
6. Othona / 24
7. Prussia Cove / 25
8. The encounter / 26
9. Others / 9
10. Gap / 14
11. Siegfried Act 3 / 15
12. The game / 19
13. Mediobogdum / 22
14. Blanks / 24
15. Abel Tasman triolets / 25
16. For Casey on his naming day / 26
17. A modern creed / 9
18. The wishbone / 14
19. For D / 15
20. Folly House / 19

Other Poets:

3. David C. Bellusci / Hume's paradox / Central American brew / Green experiment / 23
4. Tyler Bigney / Waiting / 26
5. Owen Bullock / suite of / 27
6. Adam Clay / 27/12/1984 / 'They cut the tree down!' / 32
7. Jenny Clay / 1910 in Paris / 34
8. Alison Denham / Sound reels / 35
9. Jake Dennis / Professor Kröte's death / 36
10. James Fagan / A few remembrances ... / 37
11. Jan FitzGerald / Letter to Tome Torihama (1902-1992) / Ant poison / Whale / 38
12. Vaughan Gunson / The poetry workshop / 41
13. David Ingram / On the loss of the Holmglen / 43
14. Gail Ingram / Fibonacci sequence / Daughter / 44
15. Sophia Johnson / Blake's angel / 45
16. Barbara Kamler / Let's leave it at that … / 46
17. Sarah Katherina Kay / Cultural damages: quadrilogy / 48
18. Robert Kempen / Contrast in one / 50
19. Leonard Lambert / Voyagers / 51
20. Jessica Le Bas / Lagoon / Leaving the small island / 52
21. Joel LeBlanc / Diary of an ex-online junkie / 56
22. Owen Leeming / Boeing Boeing / Charleston, Charleston / 58
23. Janet Newman / The language of self defence / There is a gully between us ... / 61
24. Piet Nieuwland / Transit of the sun across Venus / 63
25. Heidi North-Bailey / My god, you're getting married / 64
26. Keith Nunes / Rimu rider / Silence can be cold / 65
27. Sugu Pillay / Triptych aftershock / 66
28. Mark Pirie / Papers Past / Marilyn Monroe eclogue / 68
29. Vaughan Rapatahana / Handley's woolshed, 1868 / 70
30. Ron Riddell / In memory of a poet / 72
31. John C. Ross / Motelstown / Being and not-yet-being / 73
32. Lisa Samuels / The right tool for the job / The garden / Freight / Modern love / 75
33. Penelope Sell / Six climes / 80
34. Eric Paul Shaffer / The dark side isn't always / 81
35. Deidre Thorsen-Lavery / Phyllotaxis / 82
36. Chris Tse / (Following death) / 84
37. Roland Vogt / First-time occupancy / Reading faces / 85
38. Michael Walker / Dallas Arena, 1999 / 86
39. Mark Wilkins / Kopiko Road (1) / Kopiko Road (2) / 87
40. Christena Williams / I drink poetry / 88
41. Rheymin Yau / A balancing act / Russian doll / 89
42. Mark Young / A line from Deng Xiaoping / A line from James Madison / 90
43. Karen Zelas / Done / 92

Comment:

44. Jack Ross / Trouble in River City / 93
45. Bill Sutton / Poetry conference gains momentum / 104

Books and magazines in brief:

46. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 106

Notes on Contributors / 110

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