Poetry NZ 35 (2007)

FRONT COVER:

Nicolas Kurtovich
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 35, 2007)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2007


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Three New Caledonian Poets (trans. Jean Anderson) / Background / 10
3. Nicolas Kurtovich / 11
1. Two Days in Pouitchala / 11
2. Ode to the Poor / 14
3. Living at the Foot of Kaala Mountain / 15
4. Frédéric Ohlen / 25
1. I remember the human zoos / 25
2. The wind lifts the skirt of the trees / 27
3. They will be lovers / 27
4. The little old scavenging woman / 28
5. Paul Wamo / 30
1. Morning has come / 30
2. The same music / 30
3. Emergency exit / 31
4. Unfiction / 31
5. More / 32
6. Chorus of the vines / 32

Other Poets:

6. Raewyn Alexander / happy is when pain forgets its music / shoes will eat you / 33
7. Rob Allan / News of Otago / Revisiting Clinton by Highway One / 34
8. Stu Bagby / 1953 / 35
9. Kerry Craig / Belonging / Teachers / 36
10. Jen Crawford / museum to the memory of war / 37
11. Peter Crisp / A slender silhouette / Kotuku / 40
12. Waiata Dawn Davies / Ireland unvisited / 42
13. Shirley Deuchrass / This is it / 43
14. Nicola Easthope / College reunion / The end of the month / 44
15. David Flynn / The man who played cricket ... / 46
16. Basim Furat / Man of blood / Life runs wherever you catch it / A descendant / 49
17. Rhian Gallagher / The work of longing / 52
18. Jane Griffin / Dialogue 3 / 53
19. Michael Hall / A South Pacific way of looking / Voice / 54
20. Trevor Hayes / Practising Spanish adjectives / Foreign house plants / 56
21. Arthur Kimball / At the Victrola / 57
22. Leonard Lambert / Huntress / White winds / 58
23. Will Leadbeater / Her name is the title of the poem / 60
24. Jessica Le Bas / notes / swamp journey, without my mother / a doctor poem / 61
25. Olivia Macassey / Like trophies / Boxing Day / Untitled (jouissance) / 64
26. Robert McLean / A crepuscule of Rapaki / An Antipodean interment / 67
27. John Millett / A wife / 69
28. A. Mary Murphy / my humiliation spread like jam / my mother could make pinwheels / 71
29. Mark A. Murphy / Britain / 72
30. Art Nahill / My eight-year old son asks ... / Creation myth / 75
31. Julia O'Connor / Affair / 77
32. Jacqueline Ottaway / The otherworld / Litany of our fathers / 78
33. Helen Patrice / Wet 2 / David – at age 5 / 80
34. Vivienne Plumb / Rural delivery / 82
35. Nicholas Reid / Harar / Silverfish / 83
36. Anna Rugis / Conjudo a la vela – an ass under full sail / 86
37. Peter Jay Shippy / Musique concrètism / 88
38. Elizabeth Sullivan / The green shirt / Examination snapshots / 89
39. Ann Walker / Providence at Ruakura Research Station / 92
40. Laura M. Wiseman / amnesty international australia / Unknown unknowns / 94

Comment:

41. Jack Ross / Irony and After: New bearings in NZ poetry / 95

Review:

42. Bernard Gadd / Incognito by Jessica Le Bas / 104

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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Poetry NZ 34 (2007)

FRONT COVER:

Bernard Gadd
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 34, 2007)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2007


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TITLE PAGE:

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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Bernard Gadd / Background / 10
1. Rooster's jealousies / 11
2. The king will / 15
3. Scribes / 16
4. Captain Cook explains / 18
5. Sir George Grey aged / 19
6. Immigrant (1926) / 20
7. Elegy for Ettie Rout / 21
8. Legends of Phar Lap / 23
9. Finding the painted you / 25
10. Death of the poet Walter Reiner / 26
11. Girl on a rope / 27
12. Flax blades / 28

Other Poets:

3. Andy Armitage / On a Yorkshire street / 29
4. Cherie Barford / Companion in loss / 30
5. Joy Blair / Further conversations / Rewind/replay / 31
6. Jill Chan / Cartography / Dark/light / 32
7. Jennifer Compton / In the Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre / Love is not love / 34
8. Marcel Currin / Opus 27, No 2 / The piano tuner walked in ... / 38
9. Riemke Ensing / Occasion / Star / Alistair @Yeats / 40
10. Jan FitzGerald / Talking tui / Afterwards / 43
11. Robin Fry / The rose / Dreams of you / 45
12. Christien Gholson / Yes, this is a love poem / Every tree is softly falling / 47
13. George Gott / Kyoku #0263 / 49
14. Matt Harris / The resurrected author / The 274 / 50
15. Helen Heath / Diving / Dressing the body / Blow / 52
16. Jan Hutchison / Pohutukawa / 54
17. Stephanie Ioka / touhinu turning / 56
18. Jan Kemp / On Shepherd's Hill / Red lamp / 57
19. Catherine Mair / The canvas / a closed street / Space / 59
20. Robynanne D. Milford / White Christmas dreaming / 62
21. John Millett / Angus Nivison – his painting / Pas de deux / 64
22. Pooja Mittal / the night dances / sandrock / 66
23. Heidi North / Cuba street song / 68
24. Mark Pirie / Ben Hollioake / Manual of love / Note to the poet who never entered / 70
25. Kerry Popplewell / Return / 72
26. Patricia Prime / The farmhouse / 73
27. Nicholas Reid / A race-horse down a coal mine / Because I said so / 74
28. Jack Ross / That hand / Funeral sermon by the Shadow Spokesperson against PC / Some more of your friends from Nevada / DEATH & BEYOND / Eva / 76
29. Dan Salmon / When you come from where I do / 81
30. d. n. simmers / Subways I have known / 82
31. Ashleigh Southam / Phantom / Transit song / 83
32. Gareth Strachan / Special Brew, Hackney Central Station / 85
33. Ginny Sullivan / Night / 87
34. Robert Sullivan / The winding stair / 88
35. Paul Sutherland / No Grimms, Andersen or Beatrix Potter / 89
36. Nancy J. Thompson / Out of the archives / On Robert Wilson's' 14 Stations' / 90
37. Jo Thorpe / Not/holding / 92
38. Marcus Turver / Under the banyans / 94
39. Rodney Williams / The car stopping outside won't be yours / Second weekend of winter / 95

Comment:

40. Vivian Fu / The poet and doctor as one — the theme of responsibility in the work of William Carlos and Glenn Colquhoun / 97

Review:

41. Raewyn Alexander / from the swimming pool question by Michael Morrissey / 106

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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