Poetry NZ 31 (2005)

FRONT COVER:

Alistair Campbell
[Cover photograph: c.1960 / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 31, 2005)

ISSN 0114-5770. 103 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, September 2005


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Alistair Campbell / Background / 10
1. Cook Islands Rhapsodies / 11
2. Watching / 17
3. Trumpet Voluntary / 18
4. Casanova / 19
5. Changeover / 20
6. Fairy Tale / 21
7. Two Mirrors / 22
8. Akaotu's Rage / 23
9. Morning Blues / 24
10. Shepherd's Purse / 25
11. Red Clover / 26
12. Holiday Piece / 27
13. Kiwi / 28

Other Poets:

3. Peter Bakowski / Instructions to horsemen ... / 29
4. Dean Ballinger / The Edo / 30
5. Kathryn Dudding / But a thought … / 32
6. Riemke Ensing / Still / Light / Bach with gull & gums / 33
7. Helen Frances / Horror / Carrefour / 36
8. Janis Freegard / The liking / On reflection / The skeleton ending / 37
9. Desiree S. Gezentsvey / When you are away / 39
10. Franco Gisuti / nineteen-seventy-one / 40
11. Gregory G. Gumbs / Ooh, if only I could sing as well / Living in between / 41
12. Charles Juliet / Trois poèmes écrits en Nouvelle Zélande / 43
13. Tim Keane / Odalisque / 46
14. Arthur Kimball / Ars Longa / 49
15. Brent Kininmont / Dispatches from a day tour / 51
16. Jessica Le Bas / house at Malindi / in which we don't go to the movies / 53
17. Ralph Luttermoser / Notes towards a cosmology of longing / 56
18. Olivia Macassey / how to dispose of the body / Ansia de Eshtua / 59
19. Robert McLean / Julia / 61
20. Catherine Mair / Believer / Seasonal / 62
21. Simon Perris / The four loves / Absent friends / Things fall apart / 64
22. Kerry Popplewell / The visitor from Denmark / 67
23. Patricia Prime / White & red / 68
24. Nicholas Reid / Counting to the coast / 69
25. Anna Rugis / lark and bluebird / 70
26. Jocelyne Thébault / But it's all in the mind / The room is small, the person will die / 72
27. Jo Thorpe / Holding, as we must to the ah of day ... / 74
28. Marcus Turver / Goodbyes / 76
29. Richard von Sturmer / Dark Lights / 78
30. Sue Wootton / November hail / 81

Comment:

31. Nelson Wattie / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell & the community of readers / 82
32. Mark Pirie / The new American poetry / 90

Books in brief:

33. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 99

Notes on Contributors / 102

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Poetry NZ 30 (2005)

FRONT COVER:

James Norcliffe
[Cover photograph: Otago Daily Times / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 30, 2005)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland, NZ & Palm Springs, California, USA: Brick Row, March 2005


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Oz Kraus / 9

Featured Poet:

2. James Norcliffe / Background / 11
1. a field guide to the wild flowers of the moon / 12
2. wanting to be two dogs / 14
3. jazz on the lawn / 15
4. confetti / 16
5. Omega / 17
6. the issue of euthanasia / 18
7. sarsaparilla in the car park / 19
8. les haricots ne sont pas sales / 20
9. The Samuel Marsden story / 21
10. my history of the coronation / 26
11. March days / 27

Other Poets:

3. Raewyn Alexander / I dreamt of you in fake white fur / 28
4. Vincent Berquez / Calumny / The visit of a warlord / 29
5. Robert James Berry / Hurricane lamp / 31
6. Rosemary Blake / Moko / Mist / 32
7. Erick Brenstrum / The ghost of barbed wire / 34
8. Iain Britton / Composition / 35
9. Owen Bullock / gallery / 'Madame Pissarro Sewing', 1858 / thirteen to the power of one / 36
10. Rosalie Calabrese / On reading Anna Swir's poem about ... / Ixors, flame of the wood / 39
11. Alistair Campbell / UTU: A legend of Pukerua Bay / 41
12. Jennifer Compton / Storm! Power cut! / 44
13. Jen Crawford / domestic bliss / 45
14. Blair Ewing / Transit of Venus / The swallows of Monterchi / 46
15. Jan FitzGerald / Waka wairua / 47
16. Robin Fry / Peace / 48
17. Basim Furat / The destruction is pouring and ... / 49
18. Bernard Gadd / Cptn Cook remembers / Cook shanties / 51
19. Nathalie Handal / Conversation with a soldier ... / The ballad of Haya / 54
20. Siobhan Harvey / Tornado / Gerbera with love / 56
21. Elanna Herbert / watermelon pink / 58
22. Jan Hutchison / The arthritic advocate points his ... / 59
23. Jan Kemp / Silence/speech / 60
24. Moyae Kennedy / Colin McCahon paints Northern California / 61
25. Karl Kirchwey / The voyage of Ulysses / 62
26. Catherine Mair / Talking Hindi / 66
27. Pooja Mittal / witch-acre / tinderbox / what desert / divine pimp / 67
28. Tommy O'Connor / Bedsit land / 74
29. Susan Paterson / the view outside at 3pm / 76
30. Sarah Penwarden / 14 views of the mountain / 77
31. Dennis Phillips / Sophia's lament / 79
32. Mark Pirie / To Cyril Wong with thoughts of Singapore / November letter, at the end of spring / dying / 82
33. Ron Riddell / Offerings / The bell ringer / Prayer flag / 85
34. Jack Ross / Reviewer / Cinema of unease / 87
35. Tracey Slaughter / from The Dora Box / 90
36. Barry Southam / Notification / 94
37. Sue Stanford / Finishing the Tale of Genji / 95
38. Ginny Sullivan / Ice queen / 97
39. David Trame / Ripples / 98
40. K. C Wilder / fantasy dance and move-men teacher / 99

Comment:

41. Nelson Wattie, No Man is an Island: An Overview of the 2004 Wellington International Poetry Festival / 101
42. Jenni Nixon, Poetry Festivals are a waste of time / 105

Books in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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