Poetry NZ 36 (2008)

FRONT COVER:

Marissa Johnpillai
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 36, 2008)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2008


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Marissa Johnpillai / Background / 10
1. saturday night fever / 11
2. when nuns said hup / 12
3. oo (infinity) / 13
4. miss kaytana lip-syncs to j-lo / 14
5. the shaded side of the hill / 15
6. eye & eye / 17
7. no baby (boo for you) / 18
8. move your body like a / 19
9. salut / 20
10. rape-me boots / 21
11. hymn for her / 22
12. pissu gaeni (mad woman) / 25
13. she'll be right / 26
14. the eight moods of a heroine / 27
15. how to tell if your banana is a girl / 28

Other Poets:

3. Joe Bacal / Ah, the unexpected / Ex communication / 29
4. Robert James Berry / Gone / 31
5. Tony Beyer / Orpheus / 32
6. Iain Britton / The New China Café / Through the vanilla-coloured venetian blinds / 34
7. Sarah Broom / Leviticus / 38
8. Patrick Carrington / Learning history in nursery school / 40
9. Tony Chad / Pointless / 41
10. C. E. Chaffin / Strangers / 42
11. Craig Cotter / Advice for Carrie Preston / 43
12. Shirley Deuchrass / Bad mood / 45
13. Eric Dodson / Selections / 46
14. Blair Ewing / Mockingbird / 47
15. Jan FitzGerald / Hand surgery / 48
16. Gary Forrester / Unrequited / 49
17. Robin Fry / Double abecedarian / 50
18. Bernard Gadd / Borderer / Gods / Reveille / 51
19. Alice Hooton / On his father's side / Posthumously / 54
20. Becca Joyce / Snapshots of a wedding / 56
21. Jan Kemp / A la recherche de votre temps perdu / 57
22. Harvey Molloy / The exorbitant / 61
23. Edward Mycue / Salad bar at Joujou’s, peacetime / 65
24. John O'Connor / Casual / Flower / Concern for the sky / 66
25. Mai Van Phan / Supposition for the next morning / 68
26. Mark Pirie / Edward Tregear / 69
27. Kerry Popplewell / Graveyard, Alice Springs / Roadhouse at Ebenezer / 72
28. Anna Rugis / Ivor's gems / Anarchy and magic / 73
29. Elizabeth Smither / Activities around Comet McNaught / 81
30. C. K. Stead / A/go / Here the poems ... / 82
31. Ginny Sullivan / What happened / Summer Grass / 85
32. Jocelyne Thébault / There is a maze, and I've been there / The commuter going home / 87
33. Jo Thorpe / Wanting only that the singing continue / Five ways we recognise grace / 90
34. Suzanne Vaassen / Poem about my father / 93
35. L. M. Wallace / Dylan / Martinborough / 94
36. Rodney Williams / Verandah / 96
37. Saint James Harris Wood / Coups and love affairs / 97

Reviews:

38. Nicholas Reid / End of Snapshots by Bernard Gadd / 99
39. Siobhan Harvey / Becoming Someone Who Isn't by Jill Chan / 103

Books and magazines in brief:

40. Owen Bullock / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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