NZ Poetry Yearbook 3 (1953)

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New Zealand Poetry Yearbook
Editor: Louis Johnson

(Volume 3, 1953)

111 pp.

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, December 1953


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CONTENTS:

Introduction:

1. Louis Johnson / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / Moment / 13
3. G. W. Barlow / To An Old Barfly / 13
4. Henry Brennan / Paean / Gemma Donati, Wife of Dante / 14
5. Robert Chapman / Her Auburn Hair / They at the Mount / 17
6. Barbara Dent / The Third Day / 19
7. Geoff. Fuller / Street Scene / Umbilical / 20
8. Margaret Garland / Two Poems / 22
9. James Harris / The Builders / Claire Long Ago / 23
10. Paul Henderson / Winter Set / 25
11. Jocelyn Henrici / Two Songs / Any Beach, N.Z. / 27
12. Ngaire Outram Hogan / Brief Encounter / Childhood Remembered / 28
13. Elsie Locke / Maruia Valley: Paradise Ducks / The Bracken Waste / 29
14. Cherry Lockett / A Journey / 31
15. Iain Lonie / Letter from a Distance / 32
16. Willow Macky / INRI / Poetry School / 33
17. Bruce Mason / Hommage: M.M.T. / Song / 35
18. Barry Mitcalfe / This Man / Dreaming Up the Senseless Furrow / 36
19. Colin Newbury / For One Who Has Come Of Age / Picqures / 38
20. Victor O'Leary / At The Funeral Of Nero / 43
21. John Pascoe / Arawata Bill / 43
22. Margaret A. Pool / End of Day / 45
23. C. K. Stead / Settlement / The Two / Sestina – The Cycle of Days / 45
24. Robert Thompson / Port Bar / Love Under the Boughs / 49
25. Lily H. Trowern / Deseado / 50
26. Hubert Witheford / The Silver Tongue (A note on the poetry of James K. Baxter) / 52
27. James K. Baxter / Song / Poem for Jacquie / Inscription / The Journey / The Sirens / 59
28. Charles Brasch / Letter from Thurlby Domain to Colin Newbury / 65
29. Alistair Campbell / Tall Tree / The Question / 68
30. Merval Connelly / Love Song / 69
31. Basil Dowling / The Early Days / 70
32. W. Hart-Smith / Three Ballads of Archie McPhee The Boar-Slayer / 71
33. J. R. Hervey / Death’s Darling / No Love as Now / The Truth is Single / The Return / She Was My Love Who Could Deliver / 74
34. Louis Johnson / Dandelion Days / Renunciation / A Woman’s Work / Poem on Brown Paper / Timbuktu / A Boy in Winter / 77
35. M. K. Joseph / The Dancing Ploughmen / The Ballad of the Girl Who Stayed at Home / Odd Bod / On the Mountain / Funfair / A Landscape by Dufy / Christmas Eve / Down to Earth / The Altar Boys of Seville / 84
36. W. H. Oliver / The Hovering Bird / 90
37. Gloria Rawlinson / Captain Dell of the Fancy / Shag River Time / Thames Coast Fossicker / Vegetable Caterpillar / 92
38. Kendrick Smithyman / Sigh for a Crooked Caesar / Feast of Pentecost / Visions by Mather’s Farm / 96
39. Charles Spear / Letter to Guadeloupe / 99
40. Anton Vogt / Birthday Poem / Envoys of the Heart / 100
41. Pat Wilson / The Luncheon / 102
42. Hubert Witheford / A Rebours / 104
43. Robin Hyde / from The Beaches, vi / Prayer for a Young Country / Sails / Interlude / 105

Notes:

44. John Pascoe / Arawata Bill / 109

Acknowledgements / 111

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