Poetry NZ 25 (2002)

FRONT COVER:

Tracey Slaughter
[Cover photograph: Bill Marden / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 25, 2002)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, September 2002


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Tracey Slaughter / Background / 10
1. Lone Wolf goes to her Reunion / 11
2. Rules for Teachers (1915) / 17
3. Anatomy of dancing with your Future Wife / 22
4. Diary for Liam / 24

Other Poets:

3. Chris Abani / Well Meant / Statistics / 27
4. Raewyn Alexander / a woman cried on television / getting to know this American / 28
5. Nick Ascroft / Evangel / 30
6. Iain Britton / The Patriot / 32
7. Chezia Thompson Cager / Laura Nyro Dances / Wind in the Cane VII / 33
8. T. Anders Carson / Beyond a falling star / 35
9. Jill Chan / Uncertainty / Corners / 36
10. Jennifer Compton / During the Power Cut ... / 38
11. Mary Cresswell / The Van Gogh Picture / Birds of Island Bay / 42
12. Carol V. Davis / Sonata in F Minor by Telemann / 43
13. Andrew Detheridge / Making Conversation / 44
14. Jennifer Dobbs / Variation on 'Ssitkim Kut’ / 45
15. Elizabeth Gingell / Kites around the Moon / 47
16. Rachel Hadas / Ghost Yogurt / 48
17. Jan Hutchison / Meeting Frances Hodgkins / 49
18. Elizabeth Isichei / The Beach / 50
19. Anna Jackson / Johnny's song / Outlook / 52
20. Jan Kemp / 'Naked ladies' near Otama Beach / Apparitions of angels / 54
21. Jesse Lee Kercheval / On driving by the house ... / For Women, a Victory / 56
22. Mercedes Lawry / Donor / Stones / 57
23. Julie Leibrich / Night Owl / Haranui / 59
24. Barbara McCartney / on reading early music / 61
25. Nick Maslin / Sidereal / The way to San Jose / 62
26. Noel Monahan / The Snow Ghost / 64
27. John O'Connor / Finding the Mountain Valley / 65
28. Megan Parish / Beneath the First Rib / What you did on the hottest day ... / 68
29. Robert Peters / Cowboys at Reno / Aging / 70
30. Mark Pirie / Sonnets from the Traditional / The luck of the Draw / 72
31. Barbara Raeburn / Dahlias / Body Talk / Lost and Found / 74
32. P. B. Rippey / Hiding in Hollywood / You Asked / 78
33. Denise Sammons / Call it Seasonal / How to adore me / 80
34. Lewis Scott / In Passing / 82
35. Gareth Shute / Line drawing with paint / 85
36. Karen Swenson / How many mothers / 86
37. Paul White / Santa Cruz, Dili ... East Timor / American Idyll; Shot in 1945 / 88
38. Simon Williamson / Ataturk / Coming Clean / 90
39. Mark Young / Nemesis: or Painting by Numbers / 92

Comment:

40. Mark Murphy / Poetry: an unconscious commonplace / 95

Reviews:

41. Jack Ross / Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000, by Stephen Oliver / 100
42. Jack Ross / Reading the Will by Mark Pirie / 104

Books in brief:

43. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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Poetry NZ 24 (2002)

FRONT COVER:

Michael Harlow
[Cover photograph: Otago Daily Times / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 24, 2002)

ISSN 0114-5770. 95 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2002


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TITLE PAGE:

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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Michael Harlow / Background / 10
1. Such dark silks / 11
2. La Trapéziste / 12
3. And, yes / 13
4. Longing for harmonies, lettre de Menton / 14
5. Désir d'harmonies, lettre de Menton / 15
6. Reading Mandelstam / 16
7. Cassandra's daughter / 17
8. 'Cremation Blues' / 18
9. Doppelgänger, Greetings / 19
10. The Insomnia Notebook, 4 am / 20
11. 'Cucumbers and Mad Apples' / 22
12. On Day-release / 23
13. Anti-gravity / 24
14. Learning the Language / 25
15. The Dark Twin / 26

Other Poets:

3. Raewyn Alexander / the sky scrolls horizon-fresh pages / caught in the dark hallway ... / 27
4. Peter Bakowski / A letter from Antonin Besse / Portrait of the question mark / 28
5. Vincent Berquez / A to Ω / 30
6. Tony Beyer / Victropolis / 31
7. Cyril Childs / Cricket Song II / Where I'll be / 33
8. Stephanie de Montalk / Solatium / 34
9. Lee Dowrick / the bay / 36
10. Riemke Ensing / Two poems for Jan Kemp / Rain / 37
11. Mark Farrell / Poem in a Bottle / 39
12. Michael Farrell / he rows / hey / 40
13. Janis Freegard / Café Tales / 42
14. Robin Fry / Spring in Boston / 43
15. Jeffrey Harpeng / A L’Heure De L’Observatoire / 44
16. Paula Harris / Seven Little Lies / 45
17. Mary K. Herbert / On the couch / Staring at a painting by George Stubbs / 47
18. Rob Jackaman / Rave on / 49
19. Harry Johnson / Way to go / 51
20. Miranda Johnson / The moon is a cake / Listening to Peter / 53
21. Kapka Kassabova / Eaglereach / The crossing / 55
22. John Kinsella / Poltergeist House Eclogue / 57
23. Gary Langford / Snake on the rise / Snakehouse / 59
24. Sándor Lau / Francis / 61
25. Jessica Le Bas / journey south / 63
26. Simon Lewis / Counting me in / 64
27. Harvey McQueen / After the Disaster / 65
28. Adrianne Marcus / The New Table / 66
29. Eric Mould / Sagarmatha / 67
30. Dennis Phillips / Moon (with shadow) / Four Things Imagined (with maps) / 68
31. Lewis Scott / Disciples of midnight / 70
32. David Starkey / Persimmons / Morning Breath / 72
33. Anita Treefoot / raw contradictions / 74
34. Mílena Wièczorek / Talitha Kumi / Return (I) / 75
35. Sara Zettervall / Neil exclaimed I'm quitting poetry / Since Feeling is First / 77

Comment:

36. Grant Duncan / Nationhood and writing: why poetry doesn't matter any more / 80

Review:

37. Mark Pirie / Louis Johnson, Selected Poems, ed. Terry Sturm / 87

Books in brief:

38. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 91

Notes on Contributors / 94

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