Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction -- For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock -- Bow wow : Dog's body / Chris Price. To Donna's young dogs / Ian Wedde. A latenight dog / Peter Olds. 4 bow-wow poems / Sam Hunt. To saddler a puppy / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. Death of a dog / Peter Bland. Dogknotting in Quezaltenango / Vincent O'Sullivan. Dog on a mountain / Stephanie de Montalk. Hindsight / Emma Neale. For a bulldog / Fiona Kidman. My dog / Tusiata Avia. Not a bad life / Brian Turner. A dog going about his business / Sue Fitchett. Gone dogs / Murray Edmond -- Miaow : Cat tales / Anne Kennedy. It's a girl / Kirsten Warner. The tom cat which Sargeson refused to have neutered / Janet Frame. Afternoons with Pascal / Sue Wootton. How to talk to an old cat / Helen Jacobs. The borrowed cat's book of grudge / Michele Amas. The cat poems / Cy Mathews. I have taken a thrush / Vincent O'Sullivan. Natural theology / Harry Ricketts. An observation on Sartre and Schrödinger / Alexandra Fraser. Kitten / Hone Tuwhare. Cat and green silk fly / Jessia Le Bas. Zero at the bone / Jack Ross -- Other pets : Pet / Amy Brown. The terrapin / Elizabeth Smither. Ritual for a white rabbit / Bernadette Hall. The madonna of the mice / Anna Jackson. Toads / Fleur Adcock -- Creepers and crawlers : from A box of bees / Emily Dobson. The bond of bees / Keri Hulme. Wild bees / James K. Baxter. The sex life of butterflies / Karlo Mila. Red Admiral on the rocks at Sugarloaf / James Norcliffe. Moon / Alison Wong. The ghost moth / Lauris Edmond. The theology of beetles / David Howard. Up the rabbit hole / Sue Fitchett. The crickets / James Brown. Small holding / Bruce Rankin. Fireflies / Andrew Johnston. Cicadas / Kapka Kassabova. Spider / Richard Reeve -- A box of birds : Birdsong / Glenn Colquhoun / from Stich birds / Gregory O'Brien. The parakeets at Karekere / Allen Curnow. Pukeko / Owen Marshall. The swallow / Cliff Fell. Toroa: Albatross / Hone Tuwhare. The tui / Eileen Duggan. A fantail / Richard Reeve. Gannets / Diane Brown. The magpies / Denis Glover. The skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch / Allen Curnow. The kea speaks from the Dunedin Botanic Gardens / Janet Frame. Beak / Anna Livesey. Birds passing the night / Riemke Ensing. Where's the winter wren / Michele Leggott. A harvest of huia / Rangi Faith. The swans / Fiona Kidman. Scavenger / Bill Manhire. Feeding the ducks / James Brown. Kiwi behind the glass / Owen Bullock -- Zoo : A journey of giraffes / Robin Fry. Rhinoceros / Jenny Argante. Chimps can't dance / Nick Ascroft. Tyger, tyger / Kevin Ireland. The dream tiger / Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. In wolf's clothing / Helen Rickerby. Ophidiophobia / Sue Reidy. The crocodile / Janet Frame. Love poem for nippy the gibbon / Airini Beautrais. The sloth / Elizabeth Smither. Elephant riding / Jan Kemp -- Farm : Suffolk sheep / Elizabeth Smither. Sheepish love / Mark Pirie. Ruta 40 / Renee Liang. Pig / Brian Turner. Horses / Bernard Gadd. Horses with children / Alistair Paterson. The boys / Stu Bagby. The brown bull / Fiona Farrell. A cow is / C.K. Stead. Our cow / Cilla McQueen. Heavy hen / Sue Wootton -- Moana : Whale / Jenny Bornholdt. Another poem about a whale / Rangi Faith. The myth of the man-eating squid / Siobhan Harvey. Maui's dolphins / Tania Brady. Seahorse / Bob Orr. Collecting pipi / Glenn Colquhoun. Gods and oysters / Robert Sullivan. Crab / Fleur Adcock. Not so fast / Janet Charman. Fish / Brian Turner. Seal mourning / Jenny Argante.
Summary:
From Baxter to Hunt, Frame to Glover, Curnow to Edmond, animals are widely found in New Zealand verse and are the subject of some of our most famous and endearing poems. In Our Own kind Siobhan Harvey brings them together in an intelligently and affectionately chosen anthology that's beautifully enhanced by outstanding animal photographs by Mark Smith.
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