Poetry New Zealand 6 (1984)

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Poetry New Zealand
Editor: Elizabeth Caffin

(Volume 6, 1984)

ISBN 0-86868-070-2. 96 pp.

Dunedin: John McIndoe Limited, 1984


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Preface:

1. Elizabeth Caffin / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / On the Land / 9
3. Tony Beyer· / Enough / New Moves / 11
4. Meg Campbell / Cliff Edge / Good News From a Daughter / 14
5. Leigh Davis / Einstein Taught Me Physics / 15
6. Lauris Edmond / The National Poetry Series: Michael Ryan / The Henri Rousseau Style / September / 18
7. Murray Edmond / House Notes / Notes on 14th March ’83 / 21
8. David Eggleton / The Parish / 23
9. Riemke Ensing / from Track with Tide Coming In: 4 Paikea Bay / 5 Home, writing / 24
10. Rangi Faith- / Reading the Stones / 26
11. Michael Harlow· / Vlaminck’s Tie / Saraband, Andante / 27
12. Dinah Hawken· / Salt / Walking Together, Fifth Avenue / 29
13. Keri Hulme / Waiting on the Laughing Owl / 31
14. Sam Hunt / They Scratched His Face to Grief / What a Pity / Arthur Allan Thomas / 32
15. Kevin Ireland / A Complete Person / Autumn in Exile / 35
16. Vivienne Joseph / In the Camp of the Chameleon / Work of Fiction / Black Beads / 37
17. Fiona Kidman / The Newsmakers (for Fay Weldon) / Kennedy Park, Napier, After a Funeral / 39
18. *Iain Lonie / Loch Ewe / The Entrance to Purgatory / 41
19. Rachel McAlpine / As Grey as Any Kitten / 43
20. Anthony McCarten·/ Prologue: for Day of Obligation / That Way! / 44
21. Cilla McQueen / Out the Black Window (for Ralph Hotere) / Tangi at Mitimiti / 46
22. Harvey McQueen·/ from Stoat Spring: ix & xxxvi / 50
23. Bill Manhire / Breakfast / 52
24. Barry Mitcalfe / Red Cap / 54
25. David J. Mitchell / Pindarics / 56
26. Elizabeth Nannestad / In Delirium / 58
27. *Gregory O'Brien / On the Occasion of / 59
28. Vincent O'Sullivan / Morning Talk / Surfacing / Common Places / 61
29. Alistair Paterson / A Canticle / 64
30. *Janet Potiki / Snake Woman Come to Visit / 66
31. Bill Sewell / Blue / Aubade / 67
32. *Kerrin P. Sharpe / Stranger Danger / The Nature of Appearances / 69
33. Stuart Slater / Other Times, Other Places / Neighbourhood and Tenement / 71
34. Elizabeth Smither / How Sea and Air Hold Us Up / Winter’s Natural Position / The Creative Writing Course Faces the Sonnet / 74
35. Kendrick Smithyman / At That Point / About Queen’s Park / 76
36. C. K. Stead / As If Nothing Had Happened / 79
37. *Martin Sutton / Study in Summer / Black and White / 82
38. Brian Turner / Once / Sister / 85
39. Hone Tuwhare / We, Who Live in Darkness / Droll / 87
40. Ian Wedde / Comfort Stop Waltz / Man in a Peasant Cap / 89
41. *Rosemary Wildblood / Nan / 92

Notes on Contributors / 92

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Poetry New Zealand 5 (1982)

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Poetry New Zealand
Editor: Frank McKay

(Volume 5, 1982)

ISBN 0-86868-041-9. 96 pp.

Dunedin: John McIndoe Limited, 1982


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Introduction:

1. Frank McKay / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / Drowning / Bethan and Bethany / 9
3. Ken Arvidson / There Was a Day / Anne / 12
4. Alistair Campbell / To My Grandson Maireriki Aged One Day / Sumaringa / Gathering Cape Gooseberries / 14
5. *Meg Campbell / Solitary Confinement / Aftermath / 18
6. Ruth Dallas / Poems from Jackinabox / 20
7. Lauris Edmond / The Moths / Children / The Stranger / 22
8. Helen Gabites / filiment-words from …/ And Again the Cry / Going North / 25
9. *Keri Hulme / Wine Song [23] / Mushrooms and Other Bounty [Te Kaihau – 2] / 28
10. Sam Hunt / Bottle to Battle to Death / Words for Tina (barmaid, Souther Cross) / 30
11. Kevin Ireland / A World History / 34
12. Michael Jackson / Socrates’ Death / The Old Gods / Fieldwork / 35
13. LouisJohnson / To Welcome a Son / Holding the Snake / 39
14. *Vivienne Joseph / Thoughts & Patterns / Those Horses / Error / 41
15. Fiona Kidman / A Poem for Leigh / 44
16. Bill Manhire / Children / An Outline / 46
17. Rachel McAlpine / thank you very much / From ‘three bags full’ / 49
18. Frank McKay / Piha / 52
19. *Cilla McQueen / from Four Sonnets: i & iv / 54
20. Barry Mitcalfe / Class Photo, ’48 to ’78 / 55
21. *David J. Mitchell / After the Vogue / 56
22. Beth Nannestad / Nasturtiums / 60
23. Peter Olds / A Vew from Oriental Bay / 61
24. *W. H. Oliver / Historian / This Candle / The Empty Chair / 63
25. Margaret Orbell (trans.) / Lament for Ngaro [by Patuwhakairi, Hokianga, c.1845] / 66
26. Vincent O'Sullivan / After the Ikons / In Parliament Grounds / Return Visit, Wisconsin / 68
27. Alistair Paterson / from Accidents & Events / 71
28. *Joanna Paul / this is not … / 73
29. *Bill Sewell / Doctor Benn / 74
30. *Stuart Slater / A Well-Loved House / His Seascapes Without Figures / 76
31. Elizabeth Smither / Listening to Gregorian chant in bed / Nights Spent With Women / The Bell of Wordsworth / 78
32. John Summers / Old Lover as Voyeur Etcetera / 81
33. Brian Turner / Kites / Felling the Plum Tree / 83
34. Hone Tuwhare / Steam Loco on a Siding / 86
35. Ian Wedde / Poem With Two Lines From a Song / Here / 89
36. J. E. Weir / The Insurrection / The Desert / 92

Notes on Contributors / 94

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Poetry New Zealand 4 (1979)

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Poetry New Zealand
Editor: Frank McKay

(Volume 4, 1979)

ISBN 0-908565-96-8. 88 pp.

Dunedin: John McIndoe Limited, 1979


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Preface:

1. Frank McKay / 9

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / A Day in October / Our Trip to the Federation / 11
3. Peter Bland / Lament for a Lost Generation / At Whitby / Giuthrie-Smith at Tutira / 14
4. *Anna Campion / Ears like so many sea shells litter the land and … / 17
5. *Ruth Dallas / Photographs of Pioneers Women / A Warm Evening / 18
6. Lauris Edmond / Morning in Christchurch / Greek Antiquities: First Floor / Round Oriental Bay / 20
7. *Murray Edmond / Beautiful Thing: On the visit of the nuclear Warshop Truxtun to Wellington / 22
8. Riemke Ensing / Two Poems for James / 24
9. *Helen Gabites / A Little Learning on the Way / Of Games We Never Meant to Lose / Getting into Love / 26
10. Ruth Gilbert / The Contrast / 28
11. Sam Hunt / Up Battle Hill / My Father Today / 29
12. Kevin Ireland / An Essay in Communication / Antidotes to Art / 31
13. Michael Jackson / Wall / Mask-Maker / Cattle Egrets / 33
14. Louis Johnson / Singing / Frigate Bird / 36
15. Fiona Kidman / Pact for Mother and Teen-ager / Earthquake Weather / 40
16. Alan Loney / Sphere Music / Elegy 2 / 42
17. *Rachel McAlpine / Te Kaha / Serenade for Sappho / One and One / 44
18. Frank McKay / St. Jerome Patron of Literary Men / 47
19. Bill Manhire / The Poetry Magazine / Contemplation of the Heavens / A Song about the Moon / 49
20. Barry Mitcalfe / On Visitors from the City / On Being Obliged to Teach / 52
21. *Beth Nannestad / Civil Servant / Parable for AnneMarie / Letter / Ruin / Senile / 54
22. Peter Olds / Wellington Street is Closed / 57
23. Vincent O'Sullivan / From a Sequence / If Our Country Was a Horse etc. / 58
24. Margaret Orbell / Translations of Three Maori Love Songs: Dawn Comes Up / Slave Girl’s Song / Yonder the Misty Headlands / 62
25. Alistair Paterson / Poems from The Toledo Room / 63
26. Gloria Rawlinson / Ms and the Cat Child / 65
27. *Keith Sinclair / Nightcat / 66
28. Elizabeth Smither / Casanova’s Ankle / Change of School / Reading Galway Kinnell / 68
29. Kendrick Smithyman / The Last Moriori / After Zhivago / 70
30. C. K. Stead / from Walking Westward / 72
31. John Summers / Old Lady at Her Toilet / 74
32. Brian Turner / Hooks / The Dissolute Life / 75
33. Hone Tuwhare / A Festival Letter/Poem to Friends / 77
34. Ian Wedde / Don’t Listen / 78
35. J. E. Weir / For My Grandmother / For My Grandfather / 82

Notes on Contributors / 85

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Poetry New Zealand 3 (1976)

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Poetry New Zealand
Editor: Frank McKay

(Volume 3, 1976)

ISBN 0-908568-04-5. 119 pp.

Christchurch: Pegasus Press Limited, August 1976


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Preface:

1. Frank McKay / 7

Poetry:

2. Fleur Adcock / Future Work / A Walk in the Snow / 15
3. K. O. Arvidson / Lake-Walk, Rotoroa / Cess to an Abusive Young Man / 17
4. Arthur Baysting / For Damon, Aged Three / Black Swans / 19
5. *Eric Beach / In Occupied Territory / 21
6. *Peter Bland / River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants / A Sonnet for Exiles / Mr Maui Muses on the Way to the Film Studio / 22
7. Alan Brunton / Ringmaster / 24
8. Alistair Campbell / Memo to Mr Auden, 28 August, 1966 / An Old Chief Watches Young Men Exercising on Kapiti / The Australian Girl / 26
9. Piers Davies / Diaspora / 29
10. *Maurice Duggan / In the Territory / 36
11. *Lauris Edmond / Waterfall / 37
12. *Riemke Ensing / Birds and Children and Other Things / 38
13. Denis Glover / Wellington on a Wet Sunday / / 41
14. *Patricia Godsiff / Mayor of Utopia / 42
15. Sam Hunt / Friend to Many / No Exit / Wagoning, Up Moonshine / Madam Tomcat / 44
16. Kevin Ireland / Caroline at the Opening / A Gift of Words / Thrace / 46
17. Michael Jackson / ’Baby’ / Murray Rosella / Obsidian Poem / 50
18. Louis Johnson / Instead of an Elegy (for James K. Baxter 1926-1972) / A Way to Die / 53
19. *Fiona Kidman / The Tree House / 57
20. Gary Langford / The Explorer / 58
21. Denis List / Elegy on the Death of My Grandmother / 59
22. Bill Manhire / Ornaments / Riddle / The Wind (i) / The Wind (ii) / The L. & R. Song / The Coast / 61
23. Frank McKay / Weasel / Journey to Kopua / 65
24. Barry Mitcalfe / The Weekend / Upland Road / Telegramma / 67
25. Peter Olds / Freeway / 69
26. *Margaret Orbell / Lament for a Son / Lament for Rangiaho / 72
27. Vincent O’Sullivan / To Explore Ruins: Tikal / Avenida Ocho / Still Shines When You Think of It / Another Way / 74
28. Rhys Pasley / Down a Many Few / The Mirror God / 78
29. Alistair Paterson / I Heard the Sky Call My Name / The View from Borodino / 81
30. *Sarah Pope / Many Moons / I wonder / 84
31. *Elizabeth Smither / A Severed Arm / Here Come the Clouds / Everests / 86
32. Kendrick Smithyman / The Seal in the Dolphin Pool / Herd / 88
33. Barry Southam / New Generation Lover Proves to Be Something of a Throwback / Kings Wharf / 91
34. Brent Southgate / The Drop-Out / Tactics / 92
35. C. K. Stead / Kaitawa / from ‘Quesada’ / from ‘The Yellow Sonnets’ / 95
36. John Summers / It Was Alright Then / 97
37. Monica Taylor / The Letter / Caged / 100
38. Brian Turner / Wanted / 102
39. *Hone Tuwhare / Ron Mason / 102
40. Ian Wedde / 2 For Rose (from Earthly) / Those Others / Grit / 105
41. J. E. Weir / The Poet / The Lecture-Room / The Difference / The Poem / Because of the Levee / 110

Notes on Contributors / 113

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