Poetry NZ 48 (2014)

FRONT COVER:

Jan Kemp
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Nicholas Reid

(Issue 48, 2014)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2014


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Nicholas Reid / 7

Featured Poet:

2. Jan Kemp / Background / 8
1. Un jardin suspendu: to Music / 9
2. Going into the Gewölbe / ... / 10
3. all men are tyrants, even he ... / 11
4. Rilke's early poems / 11
5. A death, its toll / 12
6. Answering call / 13
7. Osama - Obama - we / 14
8. Mediterranean / 15
9. César Franck's feet / 16
10. Cri de coeur de Katherine Mansfield / 17
11. Easter in St Johann, Kronberg im Taunus / 18
12. Songs for four-part choir / 19
13. The Kiwi in me / 20
14. Two questions for the Archbishop / 21
15. A little pneumonia / 22

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / The anniversary / The English lesson / Pakistan meets a terrorist / 23
4. Raewyn Alexander / Iowa where Everyone is / 27
5. Madeline Barna / Dialogue / Cut loose / 30
6. Paula Bohince / Young man with a hawk / Girl playing samisen / 32
7. Chris Cantillon / The stranger / Crumbs / 33
8. Michelle Chote / te ohonga ake / first haiku (tanka) / 34
9. Jonathan Cweorth / Ulysses and the sirens / Canongate, 12.04am / 36
10. Maryrose Doull / Greetings / Control / Kowhai / How to read murder-mysteries / 38
11. James Fagan / On leaving the youth hostel / 41
12. Alexandra Fraser / Dancing on the edge / River city / 42
13. McArthur Gunter / The dread: a thermoelectric duet / Cosmic metamorphosis ... / 44
14. Siobhan Harvey / Altostratus / A parental guide to clouds / An occasional boat / 46
15. Caoilinn Hughes / Every body continues in its state of rest / 49
16. Ross Jackson / Dreams at the end of a string / Observation for an activist / 50
17. Will Leadbeater / Illustrations in a history book / 52
18. Simon Lewis / Writers / Giving cheek / 53
19. Andrew McIntyre / What better totem / 54
20. Robert McLean / Whither the bunting / 55
21. Linda Nathaniel / Fruit salad sky / Melt / 57
22. Keith Nunes / the kiss / next door / teetering / devoured / 58
23. John O’Connor / from the poetry sequence Transactions / 60
24. Vincent O’Sullivan / Your word against mine then, is it? / To finish the story ... / The hare, he said, / So much to remember, dad, at the Colosseum / 'When the wind lifted ... ' / Fame among the siblings / 64
25. Alistair Paterson / A Book of New Zealand Verse / 68
26. Mark Pirie / Big Jack / The old house / Time ball tower, Lyttelton / 69
27. Kerry Popplewell / Visiting the rest home / Subversive / 71
28. Richard Reeve / Octopus / Westport / 72
29. Jeremy Roberts / Surf Nazis / The tree outside my window / 75
30. David Romanda / Dancing bear / Driftwood / 77
31. L. E. Scott / Lost keys / God's kiss / Birth gives birth death / 78
32. Ila Selwyn / fleeting phrases / 79
33. Fred Simpson / End-stage motor neuron disease / 81
34. Jane Simpson / self-censoring / folded light / 82
35. Barbara Stanley / On receiving a rejection letter from Mr Paterson / 84
36. Charles Thomas / Hedged in / 85
37. Denys Trussell / The watching / 86
38. Ryan Van Winkle / What kind of thing / 90
39. Michael Walker / Wimbledon, 1975 / 92
40. Kirsten Warner / The location of heartache / 93
41. Pamela Williamson / Road trip to Paeroa / 96
42. Alessio Zanelli / Nowhereverywhere / 97

Comment:

43. Charles Bernstein / Dedication to Gertrude Stein / 98
44. Alistair Paterson: / Getting reacquainted with Alan Ross & D. J. Enright / 103

Review:

45. Nicholas Reid / Dark Sparring by Selina Tusitala Marsh / 101

Books and magazines in brief:

46. Nicholas Reid / Short reviews of new publications / 108

Notes on Contributors / 110

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