NZ Poetry Yearbook 7 (1957-8)

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New Zealand Poetry Yearbook
Editor: Louis Johnson

(Volume 7, 1957-58)

79 pp.

Christchurch: Pegasus Press, April 1958


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Introduction:

1. Louis Johnson The Year in Poetry / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / The Lover / 11
3. Arthur Barker / Two Sonnets / Sonnet on the Sonnet / 12
4. James K. Baxter / A Bone for a Good Dog / Lament for Barney Flanagan / At the Casa Fontana / Song / Odysseus / 13
5. Peter Bland / To B. G.: Stone, Staffodshire / an Old Man and Science Fiction / New Settler’s Seasonal / 18
6. Nhoma Bloom / And Then Be Still / 21
7. John Boyd / Friday Night Shopper’s Session / Villanelle / Medusa / 2I
8. Alistair Campbell / Bones / Oedipus / Bitter Harvest / 23
9. James Hunter Caple / Poem / 25
10. Gordon Challis / Certified / Turning at the Lathe / 25
11. Allen Curnow / The Eye is More or Less Satisfied with Seeing / 27
12. Barbara Dent / Poem After Early Mass in Midwinter / 28
13. Charles Doyle / Light Work for Idle Hands / Rush Hour on Lambton Quay / the Opportunist / Refugees / What We Most Need (for Peter Bland and John Boyd) / 29
14. A. R. D. Fairburn / Not Understood: Dedicated to the Bardic Secret Brotherhood / 33
15. Janet Frame / The Dead / The Ferry / 34
16. Geoffrey Fuller / Hamlet / Cancer / Moment Musicale / Farm / 35
17. Ruth Gilbert / From a Window / 38
18. Denis Glover / Landscape / 38
19. Ian Hamilton / Death of a Hero, 1957 / 39
20. Duncan Hardie / The Search / The Play / 40
21. Paul Henderson / On the Death of a Young Girl / Suburb at Night / 43
22. W. Hart-Smith / The Plumed Serpent / 44
23. J. R. Hervey / Blackbird Pecking at My Window / Hulk / 45
24. Louis Johnson / Cassandra: for my daughter / Uroborus / Deus ex Machina / Background Music / 46
25. Suzanne Johnston / Fairy-Tale / 49
26. M. K. Joseph / Cordoba / Madrid: Prado / Mars Ascending / 50
27. Kevin Jowsey / Teasr for an After-Party Feeling / 52
28. Kenneth McKenney / Great Barrier / 53
29. Philip Mincher / Love / 54
30. Victor O'Leary / Clockwork Love / Nine Day Darling / Six Apostils for a Best Seller / 54
31. W. H. Oliver / Song for a Genevan Sacrifice / 56
32. Gloria Rawlinson / Item for a Lean Traveller’s Journal / Black Swans / 57
33. Erik Schwimmer / The Argonauts / Natural History / Seeds / 58
34. Keith Sinclair / The Shepherd / Husband and Father: Biography with Seascape / 61
35. Kendrick Smithyman / A Divination / 62
36. Philip Temple / Something of Mountains / Spring / 70
37. Robert Thompson / New Year’s eve Poem / The Surviving Fisherman to His Element / 71
38. H. Tuwhare / Thine Own Hands Have Fashioned / 73
39. Anton Vogt / Flight / 74

Acknowledgements / 75

Notes on the New Contributors / 77

Bibliography / 79

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NZ Poetry Yearbook 6 (1956-7)

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New Zealand Poetry Yearbook
Editor: Louis Johnson

(Volume 6, 1956-57)

84 pp.

Christchurch: Pegasus Press, February 1957


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CONTENTS:

Introduction:

1. Louis Johnson / Some Thoughts on Another Year / 7

Poetry:

2. James Bertram / Poems for Horses / 10
3. James K. Baxter / Host and Stranger / Homage to Lost Friends / Heard in a sod Chimney / Letter to the World / The Clown’s Coat / Crossing Cook Strait / The Private Conference of Harry Fat / Harry Fat and Uncle Sam / 13
4. Charles Brasch / Impromptu for an Airman / 21
5. Allen Curnow / A Small Room with Large Windows / 22
6. Ruth Dallas / Singing in the Back-Yard / 23
7. Barbara Dent / Thaw / 25
8. Charles Doyle / That Coldest Comfort, Understanding / Song for Exiles / Sunday Morning / Starlings and History / 26
9. Ruth Gilbert / Magnolia / 29
10. Denis Glover / Flame / The Old Jason, the Argonaut / 30
11. W. Hart Smith / Two Ballds of Archie McPhee the Boar-Slayer / 31
12. Jocelyn Henrici / The Dreamer / Ophelia / 33
13. J. R. Hervey / Breakdown / The Last Bed / 35
14. Louis Johnson / Look, Ma – No Hands …! / Suburban Train / Mr Van Winkle / Time Classical / The Quick and the Dead / the Great Sun Mountain / Yin-Yan / A History of Clowns / The Long Week-End / 36
15. M. K. Joseph / Meditation on a Tme- Piece / Below the Sierra / 42
16. K. M. Jowsey / Autumn Evening / You Have / 44
17. W. D. Leadbeater / Elegy / 45
18. Philip Mincher / Echo / 46
19. Victor O'Leary / The Albatross Christ (Rondel) / 46
20. W. H. Oliver / The Examination / Gestures in the Sun /Memorial for an Enemy / Canto on a Hot Summer Day / 47
21. Richard Packer / Goodbye My Love / Mr Nemo / 52
22. P. R. Raue / Death of a Bushman / 53
23. Gloria Rawlinson / A Small Town on the Plains / 53
24. Alan Roddick / Poem, For Robin / 55
25. Erik Schwimmer / Advertisement for Washing Powder / Murray’s Bay / 56
26. Kendrick Smithyman / Cousin Emily and the Night Visitor / Tradition and the Individual Talent / Sinfonia Domestica: For one woman’s, two men’s voices / 58
27. Earle Spencer / For Margaret: To Her / For Love of a Good Woman / A Question / Beautyisa Song You Sing / Homecoming / 63
28. C. K. Stead / Afternoon with Piano / Lord Gannet, Mrs Shag / Letter from an Annual Camp – Linton, ’53 / 66
29. Bennie Thompson / Southland Landscape / 68
30. Robert Thompson / A Move to a Longer View / 68
31. Anton Vogt / Songs for a Bolshie-Yank Duo / Death of a Sinner / 69
32. Karl Wolfskehl / Job or the Four Mirros [trans. Peter Dronke] / 71

About Contributors / 82

Bibliography / 83

Acknowledgements / 84

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