"A-Z"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-267) and index.
Contents:
In the moonlight / Parting is such sweet sorrow -- Cattle in mist / David McKee Wright. Springtime / John Allison -- Im Abendrot (from The Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss at Takahe Creek above the Kaipara) -- The tall wind / Ken Arvidson -- The old place / B.E. Baughan -- High country weather -- Ballad of Calvary Street -- Tomcat -- From Jerusalem Sonnets / James K. Baxter -- The cicadas / James Bertram -- Garden-Lion -- Fall -- October, 1935 / Ursula Bethell -- Dancing bear -- The male voice / Tony Beyer -- Countries lodge in the body / Paola Bilbrough -- Wellington -- Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace / Peter Bland -- Instructions for how to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines -- The visit / Jenny Bornholdt -- From Nineteen thirty-nine -- Break and go -- Winter anemones / Charles Brasch -- Blantant resistant -- Wild daisies / Bub Bridger -- Tremors / James Brown -- Look here / Rachel bush -- Broken glass to evening dress / Kate Camp -- Looking at Kapiti -- Gathering mushrooms -- Waiting for the pakeha / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Black swans and a rainbow -- My countrywoman / Meg Campbell -- Down the hall on Saturday night / Peter Cape -- Goonengerry / Gordon Challis -- Summer fires / Geoff Cochrane -- House and land -- Spectacular blossom -- Lone Kauri Road -- Moules a la Mariniere / Allen Curnow -- Frost at night -- Photographs of pioneer women -- Iceland poppies / Ruth Dallas -- The guides (from Counting the Seeds) / John Dickson -- Otago Peninsula / Basil Dowling -- An ambition / Marilyn Duckworth -- The tides run up the Wairau -- When in still air -- Plagiarism -- Post-war / Eileen Duggan -- Wellington letter XIV -- Going to Moscow -- Tempo -- In position / Lauris Edmond -- Old hat song / Murray Edmond -- Death of the author -- Takapuna beach / David Eggleton -- Afternoon tea / David Elworthy -- Finding the ancestors / Riemke Ensing -- Flowers for the patient / Margaret Escott -- Down on my luck -- Song at summer's end -- A farewell / A.R.D. Fairburn -- Unfinished crossword / Rangi Faith -- Attack at noon / Alun Falconer -- Creed -- What it's like / Fiona Farrell -- Losing the words / Glenda Fawkes -- The Kea speaks from the Dunedin Botanical Gardens -- Rain on the roof / Cricket -- Knowledge and belief / Anne French -- The Magpies -- Thistledown (from Sings Harry) -- The end (from Arawata Bill) -- Solitary drinker / Denis Glover -- Why the door is green / Kathleen Grattan -- The snag -- Triolet / H.W. Gretton -- A vision at Warrington beach -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / Bernadette Hall -- And just now (from Poem then, for love) -- Cassandra's daughter / Michael Harlow -- Subject matter -- Tractor / W. Hart-Smith -- Talking to a tree fern / Dinah Hawken -- Immigrant / Robin Healey -- As big as a father / Jeffrey Paparoa Holman -- Look / Ingrid Horrocks -- Winesong -- The wine-rich arteries / Keri Hulme -- Plea before storm -- Tomorrow, south, love, yes -- Ana gathering cones on Battle Hill / Sam Hunt -- In the lane -- The last ones -- Sisters / Robin Hyde -- Striking a pose -- A shrinking world -- Mururoa : the name of the place / Kevin Ireland -- The lady walks ... / Rob Jackaman -- Full moon -- Seven mysteries / Michael Jackson -- -to butterfly / Helen Jacobs -- The bearer / Adrienne Jansen -- Here together met -- At large in the Eighties -- Departures / Louis Johnson -- Treasure hunt / Mike Johnson -- For Rose -- Boat / Andrew Johnston -- A riddle : of the soul -- Waiting at the station -- Drunken gunners / M.K. Joseph -- Security (from The immigrant cycle) / Kapka Kassabova -- Night poem / Jan Kemp -- Pact for mother and teenager -- Anzac '77 / Fiona Kidman -- The echo dogs -- Somewhere in August / Leonard Lambert -- From a woman, a rose, and what it has to do with her or they with one another? / Michele Leggott -- The entrance to purgatory -- My toaster tells the time / Iain Lonie -- Here it is -- House proud (from House poems) / Rachel McAlpine -- Magpies and other outlaws / Joy Mackenzie -- The room / Mary Macpherson -- Timepiece -- Homing in -- Quark dance / Cilla McQueen -- Patrick -- Makeshift holding pen (from yesterday) / Harvey McQueen -- The song -- Poem for Vanessa -- Antarctic stone / Bill Manhire -- To L.H.B. (1894-1915) -- The man with the wooden leg / Katherine Mansfield -- Latter-day geography lesson -- On the swag -- Judas Iscariot / R.A.K. Mason -- In March we're all going to Egypt / Mike Minehan -- Love song of the mountains / Barry Mitcalfe -- My imaginary grandmother /rMichael Morrissey -- Shoes (from A portrait of my mother) -- Her voice (from A portrait of my mother) / Elizabeth Nannestad -- Presuming the worst / Emma Neale -- Opening the book / John Newton -- A love song / Sir Apirana Ngata -- The sportsman drops a goal -- Partial eclipse / James Norcliffe -- Reliquary -- Storm warning / Gregory O'Brien -- Thank you -- The rotary washer / John O'Connor -- Peacocks / W.H. Oliver -- My father's bomber jacket -- Container terminal / Bob Orr -- Ornamental gorse -- The last tent / Chris Orsman -- In parliament grounds -- July, July -- The grieving process / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Horses with children / Alistair Paterson -- Progress / Mark Pirie -- Before the operation -- Tapeworm / Vivienne Plumb -- Hers is / Roma Potiki -- To Waitemata Harbour / Sarah Quigley -- The sea / Laura Ranger -- Dona Nobis Pacem / Alan Riach -- Albergo Sole -- The moment / Harry Ricketts -- The test / Alan Roddick -- Riversdale -- On impulse / Bill Sewell -- Smoke / Iain Sharp -- The bomb is made / Keith Sinclair -- Here come the clouds -- City girl in the country -- My mother looking at stars / Elizabeth Smither -- Walk past those houses on a Sunday morning -- Gathering the Toheroa / Kendrick Smithyman -- Homecoming / Charles Spear -- Camera / Jeanette Stace -- Householder -- The wife speaks / Mary Stanley -- With a pen-knife -- From Quesada -- From Twenty tow sonnets / C.K. Stead -- Coming home / J.C. Sturm -- Waka / Robert Sullivan -- Te Kooti / Apirana Taylor -- Like lamplight -- Madrigal -- Fingerbones / Brian Turner -- Old man chanting in the dark -- Heemi -- Snowfall / Hone Tuwhare -- Mercy, mater, mercy / Rae Varcoe -- Watching snow / Raymond Ward -- From Earthly : sonnets for Carlos -- The windy bough -- Six false starts. No stops. Getting homesick / Ian Wedde -- Parents and children / Albert Wendt -- Coming down, West Auckland, 7.10.98 / Virginia Were -- Today's story / Tom Weston -- The precious pearl -- The smile / Patrick Wilson -- King of kings -- Going into winter / Hubert Witheford -- In the moonlight / David McKee Wright.
Summary:
This volume brings together over 200 accessible New Zealand poems from a generous range of poets. The contributors include Hone Tunawhare, Elizabeth Smither, Chris Orsman and Emman Neale. The book provides a picture of the achievements and promise of New Zealand poetry at the end of the millennium.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.