The chickadee / Janet Frame -- from The harbour poems / Dinah Hawken -- Haiku (1) / Hone Tuwhare -- Balagan / Frances Samuel -- Everest / Therese Lloyd -- The avalanche / Maria McMillan -- Beach / Mary Macpherson -- The city from the hills / Arnold Wall -- Wellington at 5 o'clock / Denis Glover -- Foreshore, evening / Anna Livesy -- Home thoughts / Denis Glover -- Introduction / Louise Wallace -- Cookbook / Murray Edmond -- Cromwell / Bernadette Hall -- In the younger land / A.R.D. Fairburn -- Rain over Mitimiti mountains / Charles Brasch -- Keri Hulme -- Sitting in front of the Karetu Marae / Robert Sullivan -- Lord Cobham Avenue / Tony Beyer -- Bring your camera ay? / Rob Hack -- Geoff Cochrane -- Big city rush hour / David Eggleton -- John Pule -- Motel / Geoff Cochrane -- Roadkill / David Eggleton -- Bumper stickers / Kate Camp -- Toney's Tyre Service / Ian Wedde -- Referee / Hinemoana Baker -- Dreams, yellow lions / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- On turning seventy / C.K. Stead -- East Belfast / Lynley Edmeades -- My World War I poem / Bill Manhire -- Suicide abroad / Geoff Cochrane -- Anorexia / Frances Samuel -- A small seascape in oils / Elizabeth Smither -- Cherry pie / Paula Green -- Cape gooseberries / Chris Orsman -- Waiting for my brother / Tusiata Avia -- On Rapanui (Easter Island) / Gregory O'Brien -- Remembering Mrs Hardy / Vincent O'Sullian -- High country weather / James K. Baxter -- Friend: / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Poem / Bill Manhire -- Under Erebus / Bernadette Hall -- Temporary beds / Michele Amas -- Ariel / Bob Orr -- What licence issued you away? / Anna Livesy -- Sapwood and milk / Hone Tuwhare -- 22 March '96 / Rachel Bush -- Wild iron / Allen Curnow -- Panther / Sarah Broom -- Still / Rachel Bush -- Watching the hawkduns / Vincent O'Sullivan -- John Pule -- Carved couple / Diana Bridge -- 'You're just a dreamer' / Elizabeth Nannestad -- Chip / Andrew Johnston -- A birthday bow-wow blues / Sam Hunt -- Moonshine / Sam Hunt -- Grandparents / Angela Andrews -- Night / Albert Wendt -- Eleven days / Anna Livesy -- Not less by dreaming more / Michael Harlow -- Time, when you write / Elizabeth Smither -- 'Now is the month of Maying' / C.K. Stead -- Forest song / Janis Freegard -- Felled trees / Ruth Dallas -- Prime time / Andrew Johnston -- Mary (12) -- Wingatui / Bill Manhire -- Jack without magic / Allen Curnow -- Metal / Hubert Witheford -- Booty / Eileen Duggan -- Anorexia / Bernadette Hall -- Night / Eileen Duggan -- Sky / Brian Turner -- The mess we made at Port Chalmers / Cilla McQueen -- Today / Dinah Hawken -- The pool / Ruth Dallas -- A visiting card / Gregory O'Brien -- Tokens / Fleur Adcock -- Tidal / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Helen Shaw -- A song of innocence / Kendrick Smithyman -- Haiku (2) / Hone Tuwhare -- The elaboration / Bill Manhire -- Rooms / Ashleigh Young -- All the keys in the world / Kate Camp -- from Six Roman poems -- Elizabeth Nannestad -- from Seferis / Vincent O'Sullivan -- You gave me a shoulder / Elizabeth Nannestad -- Meditation on blue / Joanna Margaret Paul -- Lines written in absence / Denis Glover -- The forecast for night / Elizabeth Smither -- Scrap / Lauris Edmond -- Nexus / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Mātai rore au (On the hill tops) / Traditional, translated by Margaret Orbell -- Before I get into sleep with you / Janet Frame -- View from the house of many chimneys / Gregory O'Brien -- The hour / Stephanie de Montalk -- Radio / Denis Glover -- Seven wishes / Fiona Farrell -- The order of things / Lynley Edmeades -- Michele Leggott -- Someone mentions your name / Louise Wallace -- From one centre / Ian Wedde -- Our love was a grim citadel / R.A.K. Mason -- Things / Fleur Adcock -- Beak / Anna Livesy -- Remembering summer / Brian Turner -- How memory works / Bill Manhire -- My mother spinning / Peter Olds -- Adultery in the age of Pisces / Cliff Fell -- Closer / James Brown -- Cairn / Bernadette Hall -- Early settler song / James Brown -- Stone / Dinah Hawken -- Without form / Bill Manhire -- Am ambulance / Geoff Cochrane -- Hole / Mary Macpherson -- Concrete city / James McNaughton -- Brooding / Eileen Duggan -- Keri Hulme -- Out in the garde / Katherine Mansfield -- The acolyte / Eileen Duggan -- Prepare / Ursula Bethell -- from Haiku & senryu / John O'Connor -- Text message / Sam Duckor-Jones -- Sea change / Rhian Gallagher -- Tangi te kawekaweā (Planting spell) / Traditional, translated by Margaret Orbell -- Listening / Peter Bland -- Detail / Ursula Bethell -- Poppies / Basil Dowling -- The school for sopranos / Anna Livesy -- Notes / James Brown -- Aesthetic / Ursula Bethell -- Stubble fields / Elizabeth Smither -- The back gate of Solway College, thirty years on / Marty Smith -- Kelburn Park / Harry Ricketts -- Shifting points / Lindsay Rabbitt -- Drawing a conclusion on a paper dart / Bernadette Hall -- Opening / James Brown.
Summary:
I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller. Funny, startling, poignant, illuminating, and always succinct, this anthology celebrates the many moods and forms of the short poem and demonstrates its power in holding our attention. Included here are famous names like Manhire, Glover, Bethell and Cochrane, amongst many new and rediscovered gems.
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