Poetry NZ 41 (2010)

FRONT COVER:

Richard Reeve
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Nicholas Reid

(Issue 41, 2010)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2010


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Nicholas Reid / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Richard Reeve / Background / 10
1. Fish for dinner / 11
2. Sunshed / 13
3. Love among the turbines / 15
4. Meeting in a field / 16
5. Mahinerangi / 17
6. Warrington dives / 21
7. The old breed / 22
8. Collaborator / 23
9. Bailout / 24
10. How to kill the Prime Minister / 25
11. Generation kitchen / 27

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / Footloose / Family / Moving out / 28
4. Heather Bauchop / Yesterday's tomorrow / 31
5. Zara Butcher / The window / 32
6. Fern G. Z. Carr / Why are the dead so still / 33
7. David Chadwick / The view from the hill / Dispensing with fantails ... / 34
8. Jennifer Compton / Imagining Jane / Sunday afternoons in Kings Park / 35
9. Majella Cullinane / Autumn is where you find it / Homecoming / 37
10. Gregory Dally / Towards simplicity / Okaka / 38
11. Shirley Deuchrass / Catlins shipwreck / 40
12. Belinda Diepenheim / Word sore / 41
13. Peter Dornauf / God is good / Afterlife / 42
14. Maryrose Doull / Alexandra Park is my farm now / 43
15. Anne French / Black notebook / In memory of Czeslaw Milosz / 45
16. Dave Gill / taxidermy / 47
17. Charles Hadfield / The climb / 48
18. Josie Charlotte Jackson / The dying painter / 49
19. Noel King / Grounded / 50
20. Leonard Lambert / Rainflowers / Harbour thoughts / 51
21. Joel LeBlanc / Tree of knowledge / 52
22. Joy MacKenzie / Awake / 53
23. Harvey Molloy / Moth eats word / 55
24. Janet Newman / To the works / A farmers daughter contemplates / 60
25. Mark Pirie / All White on the night / Report on Deserters ... / Elegy at Lyall Bay / Women, Flowers / 62
26. Vivienne Plumb / Zywiec / Vodka, my wife / Polish addictions / The konditorei / 66
27. Vaughan Rapatahana / postcolonial boy / 69
28. Harry Ricketts / Bider / Masters, reading / Understudy / Brandon St / 72
29. Richard Schurr / The syringa tree / 76
30. Iain Sharp / Lazy river poem / Westland, 1864 / A song for David Mitchell / The favourite moment / 77
31. Fred Simpson / Linaria / Birch seed / 82
32. C. K. Stead / The Maecenas of Lynn / Sixes and sevens / 84
33. Ann Walker / The family prospers / For a taupata / 87
34. Hayden Williams / Gambler's litany / 89
35. Alessio Zanelli / The last snow / 91

Comment:

36. Denys Trussell / Oz and Ruth Kraus as Brick Row Publishers / 92

Review:

37. Siobhan Harvey / On David Mitchell and John O’Connor: Steal Away Boy and Cornelius & Co / 100

Books and magazines in brief:

38. Nicholas Reid / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 110

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Poetry NZ 40 (2010)

FRONT COVER:

Robert McLean
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Editor: Alistair Paterson

(Issue 40, 2010)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2010


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Alistair Paterson / 9

Featured Poet:

2. Robert McLean / Background / 10
1. Triptych - after Grünewald / 11
2. The implements of genius / 13
3. The government of love / 14
4. The death of Pan / 15
5. The weather in Dunedin / 17
6. ARC / 18
7. The man without a horse / 19
8. Shahadah / 20
9. The key / 20
10. Springtime in America / 21
11. If snow falls in the desert, / 22
12. As deceivers, yet true / 23
13. Lunatic / 24
14. If / 25
15. Weekend press June 11-12 / 26
16. Travel is a place / 27
17. The burning bush / 28

Other Poets:

3. Rizwan Akhtar / Lahore 2009 / 29
4. Raewyn Alexander / explain why they don't declare / 'Measuring the substance of the universe' / 30
5. Gary Allen / Goodbye Berryman / 32
6. Trent Appleman / 'Eremite Hawk Secretary Jesuit Yoruban' / 34
7. Miriam Barr / eight ways of looking at it / 36
8. Tyler Bigney / The color of his eyes / 38
9. Joy Blair / Bleed / Brave / 39
10. Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Black and blue, carry the two / 40
11. Owen Bullock / unresolve / 41
12. Tony Chad / Ramble / 42
13. Jennifer Compton / Epicentre / A man, somewhere in history, dying / What I found / 43
14. Sue Clennell / White angel with black cummerbund / 45
15. Mary Cresswell / Mrs Beeton regrets / 46
16. Ryan Dennis / The words of a farmer on Monday / 47
17. Shirley Deuchrass / Computer help for a mummy / 48
18. Eric Dodson / Potion / 49
19. Sue Fitchett / wait for godwit voices / Buller's ghost / 50
20. Jan FitzGerald / John Bevan Ford Exhibition / 52
21. Janis Freegard / Pectinidae / 53
22. Vaughan Gunson / somewhere else / the olive tree / 54
23. Charles Hadfield / Clarities / 56
24. Alice Hooton / Dublin records / 58
25. Linda Hunter / Behind the scenes / 59
26. Jessica Le Bas / Antarctica and the light/streak / Love as string (theory) / 60
27. Ralph Luttermoser / Reflections on malignant force / 62
28. Art Nahill / Theatre Optique / 65
29. Tim Nees / Lacy suite / 66
30. John O’Connor / OK / 68
31. Terrie Paterson / Shadows / 70
32. Simon Perris / Ur-text: a creative writing exercise / Herbertville / 71
33. Nicholas Reid / Trove / 73
34. Jack Ross / The all-star travelling gameshow / Asbestos hands of Dr J. / This DVD contains everything there is ... / Unsuccessful applicant for Neighbourhood Watch / Shorts / 76
35. Anna Rugis / Snow on Soul Mountain / Amazing grace / You have to choose / 82
36. Ila Selwyn / stolen voices / through too much open air / 85
37. Barry Southam / The counsellor / 86
38. David Starkey / Arrival / 87
39. Nancy Barnard Starr / Whitman's grave / 88
40. Ryan G. Van Cleave / The poet, considering / Hands, heart / 89
41. Ann Walker / The painting / In the classroom / 91
42. Patrick Walsh / Trade school / 93
43. Mark Young / from Genji Monogatari / 94
44. Alessio Zanelli / The summer side of things / 97

Comment:

45. Ross Brighton / Recent developments in American Poetry / 98

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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