Poetry NZ 45 (2012)

FRONT COVER:

Tony Beyer
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Owen Bullock

(Issue 45, 2012)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, September 2012


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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Owen Bullock / 7

Featured Poet:

2. Tony Beyer / Background / 8
1. Some Wellington Poems / 9
2. Fraternal elegy nothing more / 14
3. Saturday morning / 15
4. Rara Avis / 16
5. The thrush / 19
6. French letters / 20
7. Dominion / 21
8. Unanswerable / 23
9. The leaving letters / 27

Other Poets:

3. Gary Allen / Klimt's lost lake / 30
4. Gerard Beirne / Meditation #33: The hour is upon us / Song of the blind heretic harper / 31
5. Chris Cantillon / Seventeen / 34
6. Sue Clennell / Hera / 35
7. Jennifer Compton / we are farmed out / 36
8. Mary Cresswell / Desperately seeking science / 37
9. Belinda Diepenheim / Luther translates the Bible into German / Wisdom and the agnostic / Clean shot / 38
10. Eric Dodson / An automatic life / Pink salmon pleads on a mobile phone / Wanting corn / 42
11. Robert Etty / In these last hot days / 45
12. Sue Fitchett / the day we go to Oświęcim-Brzezinka ... / 46
13. Jan FitzGerald / The doll / 50
14. John Geraets / from Round about / 52
15. Laurice Gilbert / First date / 53
16. Vaughan Gunson / red balloon / is there an explanation? / 54
17. Jeffrey Harpeng / C is for / 57
18. Ya- Wen Ho / Try not to detonate the sleeping dogs / 58
19. Hayden Hyams / Guerrillas / Something from nothing / 65
20. Leonard Lambert / Dr Whom / 67
21. Helen Lehndorf / how long until the accident? / Damp little Oedipus / 68
22. Leah McMenamin / Know what it is / On your departure / 70
23. Jan Napier / Wet dreams / 72
24. James Norcliffe / Kalamazoo / Old crimes / False witness / James Dean / By the chateau / 73
25. Keith Nunes / A plate full of middle years / 78
26. Jacqueline C. Ottaway / A Dadaist poem for Frances / At the lagoon with Frances / 79
27. Sarah Penwarden / Definitions / 81
28. Patricia Prime / Conservation 101 / 82
29. Anna Rugis / To Helen Pollock, / 83
30. Fred Simpson / Flying to Byzantium ... / 84
31. Hazel Smith / Student-teacher relations / the driver / 85
32. C.K Stead / The crash / 87
33. Joan Norley Taylor / Meeting Jesus / 90
34. Jocelyne Thébault / I remember Eleanor / Hans Hartung's scribed pebbles / 91
35. Deirdre Thorsen-Lavery / Wind wobbles / For Jane / 92
36. Ann Walker / Recall after a walk / 95

Comment:

37. John Geraets / forpoetry / 96

Review:

38. Jack Ross / The Little Enemy by Nicholas Reid / 101
39. Patricia Prime / The Incomplete Poems by David Howard / 105

Books and magazines in brief:

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

Notes on Contributors / 110

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Poetry NZ 44 (2012)

FRONT COVER:

Maris O'Rourke
[Cover design: Bill Wieben]



Poetry NZ
Guest Editor: Siobhan Harvey

(Issue 44, 2012)

ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Auckland: Puriri Press / Palm Springs, California: Brick Row, March 2012


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TITLE PAGE:

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CONTENTS:

Editorial:

1. Siobhan Harvey / 7

Featured Poet:

2. Maris O'Rourke / Background / 8
1. Lifelines / 9
2. Separation / 15
3. Pathfinder / 16
4. Selling the family tent / 17
5. Engagements / 19
6. Beijing boys / 20
7. Three encounters on Rannoch Moor / 21
8. The green house / 24

Other Poets:

3. Rosetta Allan / A mother reads / 25
4. Joy Blair / The Lone Ranger again / Queen Street / 26
5. Michael Botur / Ways to die in the South Is. / 28
6. Norbert Bugeja / Notes from Jimbaran Bay / Poetry / 30
7. Owen Bullock / good morning, Marina / space, the first frontier / 32
8. Tony Chad / Understanding / 7 reasons for going to a poetry workshop / 34
9. Medb Charleton / At Café L’Affare with Wallace Stevens / Another kind of night / 37
10. Mary Cresswell / Petition to the prisoner / Here there be tygers / 39
11. Maryrose Doull / Fitting trees into a city garden / Meeting at Blue Duck Creek / Layers of happiness / 41
12. Jo Emeney / Portrait of a girl sitting backwards ... / Play / Ducklings / 43
13. Alexandra Fraser / Some memes to shape you / The fridge in the mangroves / 45
14. Robin Fry / Café au lait / 48
15. Jaffray Geddes / An experiment with the reality ... / In the shine of early birdsong / 50
16. Stephen Haven / Watch / Room in a room / Self-portraits with African cichlids / 52
17. Kelly-lee Hickey / Requiem / First taste / 57
18. Dorothy Howie / In the gaps / 58
19. Linda Hunter / in the museum / 59
20. Norman Jope / Chasing balloons / In sunshine and shade / 61
21. Jan Kemp / a kiss, imagined / babysitting / body language / 63
22. Koenraad Kuiper / Tyrants / 66
23. Philip Loyd / Harriet Houdini / 67
24. Robynanne Milford / The king / 69
25. Keith Nunes / Accident / 70
26. Rae Pater / Earthquake / Communion / 71
27. Sugu Pillay / Cathedral Square, Chtistchurch / Shape-shifter landscapes / 73
28. Mark Pirie / Merv Wallace: a cricket master / The edge of love / 74
29. Tony Ramsay / Burning on the salt pan / 76
30. Nicholas Reid / Just for you / The box / 77
31. Helen Rickerby / Duchess / 80
32. Jeremy Roberts / Irish bar in Takapuna / Invitations from unknown places / 81
33. Jack Ross / Cook on Easter Island / Never give up / 83
34. Rachel Sawaya / Feast / 85
35. Eric Paul Shaffer / River eye / Invisible ink / 86
36. Mohamad Atif Slim / Taniwha / 88
37. Ginny Sullivan / Queen of the river / The remaining miles / 89
38. Bill Sutton / Wheelchairing / 91
39. Denys Trussell / Moon and hymn over Hauraki / 93
40. Ryan Van Winkle / Moths / Untitled / 94

Comment:

41. Robert McLean / On Originality (Again) / 98

Review:

42. Peter Simpson / Coming Ashore by Peter Bland / 103

Books and magazines in brief:

43. Siobhan Harvey / Short reviews of new publications / 107

Notes on Contributors / 109

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