Poetry NZ 37 (2008)

FRONT COVER:

Michele Leggott
[Cover photograph: Mark Fryer / Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 37, 2008)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2008


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Michele Leggott / Background / 10
1. mirabile dictu / 11
2. te matau / the hook / 13
3. great readers / 15
4. te ahi tapu rakau / Jacob's fire song / 17
5. tell your mama / 20
6. nice feijoas / 22
7. slow reader / 24
8. elevador / 26
9. teatro della limonaia / 28
10. il mantello / the cloak / 30

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / Text / A painter’s ado / 32
4. E. Kristin Anderson / Coda for a philosopher / 35
5. Stu Bagby / Thorne Bay / 36
6. Joy Blair / A case of the dog in the night / 37
7. Sarah Broom / Crusade / 38
8. Jennifer Compton / Waipukurau / How the fuck do you say Termini! / 39
9. Geraldine Day / Proposal slips / 41
10. Sue Fitchett / between worlds / YES / 43
11. Jan FitzGerald / To a macrocarpa on death row / 45
12. David Flynn / The Siberian bride / 46
13. Basim Furat / Homage to Basho / 47
14. Michael Hall / What the meteorologist forgot to mention / 49
15. Alice Hooton / Paris 1939 / A pair of skates / Garibaldi / 50
16. Hayden Hyams / Letter to an agent / 53
17. David Ingram / Grapefruit marmalade / 55
18. Ian Irvine / The fifth eye of Dharma / 56
19. Arthur Kimball / When to buy a pint of mouthwash / 57
20. Will Leadbeater / The labours of someone as un-Herculean as myself / 58
21. Jessica Le Bas / He is going to Africa / Mzungu at the fish market / Africa (2) / The news from Africa / 59
22. Helen Lowe / Outback / Shout / 65
23. Ron McGurk / Trees / 67
24. John Millett / Lost city inside him / 68
25. Michael Morrissey / London and the sound of weeping / Roses made her talk / Forbidden topic / 69
26. Janet Newman / Puerto Vallarta, Mexico / 72
27. Michael O'Leary / Morningside station / 73
28. Jacqueline Ottaway / Reviewing Aunty Bud / 74
29. Sarah Penwarden / Blue / He was seen on the street / 75
30. Kerry Popplewell / Perfect / 77
31. Patricia Prime / Sun-flooded room / 78
32. L. E. Scott / You have been named / 79
33. Eric Paul Shaffer / How to make a lei / 80
34. Kerrin P. Sharpe / Half the story / 81
35. Barry Southam / The poker player / 82
36. Michael Steven / Matakana / 83
37. Elizabeth Sullivan / 2387 members currently online / A poem for your analytical mind / 85
38. Ginny Sullivan / After the flood / 88
39. Philip A. Waterhouse / Rack 'em / 89
40. Don Winter / Lonesome town / Posing / Mom: 1968 /Outlaw / 90

Comment:

41. John Horrocks / Truth telling: Michael Morrissey's poetry / 94

Review:

42. Jack Ross / Africa by Alistair Paterson / 100

Books and magazines in brief:

43. Alistair Paterson / Short reviews of new publications / 108

Notes on Contributors / 110

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Poetry NZ 36 (2008)

FRONT COVER:

Marissa Johnpillai
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Associate Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 36, 2008)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2008


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TITLE PAGE:

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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Marissa Johnpillai / Background / 10
1. saturday night fever / 11
2. when nuns said hup / 12
3. oo (infinity) / 13
4. miss kaytana lip-syncs to j-lo / 14
5. the shaded side of the hill / 15
6. eye & eye / 17
7. no baby (boo for you) / 18
8. move your body like a / 19
9. salut / 20
10. rape-me boots / 21
11. hymn for her / 22
12. pissu gaeni (mad woman) / 25
13. she'll be right / 26
14. the eight moods of a heroine / 27
15. how to tell if your banana is a girl / 28

Other Poets:

3. Joe Bacal / Ah, the unexpected / Ex communication / 29
4. Robert James Berry / Gone / 31
5. Tony Beyer / Orpheus / 32
6. Iain Britton / The New China Café / Through the vanilla-coloured venetian blinds / 34
7. Sarah Broom / Leviticus / 38
8. Patrick Carrington / Learning history in nursery school / 40
9. Tony Chad / Pointless / 41
10. C. E. Chaffin / Strangers / 42
11. Craig Cotter / Advice for Carrie Preston / 43
12. Shirley Deuchrass / Bad mood / 45
13. Eric Dodson / Selections / 46
14. Blair Ewing / Mockingbird / 47
15. Jan FitzGerald / Hand surgery / 48
16. Gary Forrester / Unrequited / 49
17. Robin Fry / Double abecedarian / 50
18. Bernard Gadd / Borderer / Gods / Reveille / 51
19. Alice Hooton / On his father's side / Posthumously / 54
20. Becca Joyce / Snapshots of a wedding / 56
21. Jan Kemp / A la recherche de votre temps perdu / 57
22. Harvey Molloy / The exorbitant / 61
23. Edward Mycue / Salad bar at Joujou’s, peacetime / 65
24. John O'Connor / Casual / Flower / Concern for the sky / 66
25. Mai Van Phan / Supposition for the next morning / 68
26. Mark Pirie / Edward Tregear / 69
27. Kerry Popplewell / Graveyard, Alice Springs / Roadhouse at Ebenezer / 72
28. Anna Rugis / Ivor's gems / Anarchy and magic / 73
29. Elizabeth Smither / Activities around Comet McNaught / 81
30. C. K. Stead / A/go / Here the poems ... / 82
31. Ginny Sullivan / What happened / Summer Grass / 85
32. Jocelyne Thébault / There is a maze, and I've been there / The commuter going home / 87
33. Jo Thorpe / Wanting only that the singing continue / Five ways we recognise grace / 90
34. Suzanne Vaassen / Poem about my father / 93
35. L. M. Wallace / Dylan / Martinborough / 94
36. Rodney Williams / Verandah / 96
37. Saint James Harris Wood / Coups and love affairs / 97

Reviews:

38. Nicholas Reid / End of Snapshots by Bernard Gadd / 99
39. Siobhan Harvey / Becoming Someone Who Isn't by Jill Chan / 103

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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