FRONT COVER:
New Zealand Poetry Yearbook
Editor: Louis Johnson
(Volume 8, 1958-59)
104 pp.
Christchurch: Pegasus Press, July 1959
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TITLE PAGE:
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CONTENTS:
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Introduction:
- Louis Johnson Poetry Yearbook and the 'fifties / 7
- Charles Doyle / Anger or Apathy? A Glance at Recent New Zealand Verse / 12
- Fleur Adcock / Christmas Dawn / Summer is Gone / 17
- James K. Baxter / Sanctuary / Prize-Giving Speech / 18
- Graham Billing / Divertimento / The Bind Gardener Plants Stones / Seven O’Clock on a Doubtful Morning / 20
- Peter Bland / The Record Cover – Romeo and Juliet / The Water Boys / The Dispossessed / An Evening at Home / 21
- Angus Burton / Offering to a Local Figure / Between Two Seas / Tom Bedlam’s Salute / War Diary / What Do I Get from the Estate? / To Guide Infirm Misgiving / Proposition / 24
- Peter Cape / Taumaranui: A New Zealand Joker’s Lament for his Sheila / Song / 27
- Jenefer Carlyon / Poems of Exile / 29
- Gordon Challis / The Iceman / Three Men / 30
- Barbara Dent / The Mass / 33
- Charles Doyle / A Map of Childhood / Portmanteau / Chicago Style: Thirty Years Later / The Tunnel of Love / 34
- Marilyn Duckworth / Child’s Happiness / Sick Child’s Window / Student / Discontent / Woman in Bed / White / 37
- Ruth Gilbert / Wisdom / By Bread Alone / 41
- Denis Glover / Noah and the Weather Office / ‘How Doth My Good Cousin Silence?’ / Peraki / 42
- Paul Henderson / Letter to Nuku’alofa / Rain Forest, Cascade Creek / 44
- Jocelyn Henrici / Luna Hymn: to the Proud Virgin / Swimmin gin Shadow / Statues at Angkor Thom / 46
- J. R. Hervey / The Parrot Danced: A fearsome childhood memory / These Have I Known / 48
- Kevin Ireland / Shivers in the Oils / 49
- Louis Johnson / Playway / The Intruders: For Depth-Men Everywhere / To Care Too Much / Girl at a Party / The Mask / 50
- M. K. Joseph / Chronosemasiology / The Drunkard and the Crane / 53
- Audrey C. Luckens / Phantoms / 54
- Philip Mincher / Atheist’s Mass / 55
- W. H. Oliver / Autumn Fires / Epithalamium: for Jonathan and Gillian Bennett / 56
- Gloria Rawlinson / The Gilded Loafers / the Endeavour in Hauraki Gulf: Unlogged meditation / 58
- Alan Roddick / The Shell / Signals from the First Satellite / Candid Cameraman / Blind Boys at Cricket / The Sensitive Young Man is Very Angry / To Read the Landscape / The Beach in Winter / 60
- Erik Schwimmer / The Married One / I Cannot Do Without You / 63
- Keith Sinclair / On the Desert Road / Epitaph / Poem / 65
- Kendrick Smithyman / Song with an Attitude / Climbing in the Himalyas / Speaking to a Youngest Son / Waikato Railstop / 67
- Earle Spenser / Boy’s Song from A Pilgrim / 72
- Mary Stanley / Poem for Felicity Sim / On Looking into a Glossy Magazine / Morepork / 73
- Robert Thompson / Narrations of the Heart / 75
- Hone Tuwhare / Lament / 76
- Anton Vogt / Flight / the Painter / the Philosopher / 78
- Pat Wilson / South-East, Tauranga / 79
- Marguerite J. Woolf / Lament / Erosion / 82
- Barry Mitcalfe / Translations from the Maori / 83
- John Summers / In Memoriam B. E. Baughan / 91
- Louis Johnson / In Memoriam J. R. Hervey / 92
- Brian Bell / Fantasy: The Poetry Marathon / 95
Poetry:
Acknowledgements / 101
About Contributors / 102
Bibliography / 103
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