Research Catalog

Title

Up over Alpha : poems / by David Patterson ; edited by Anne French ; tributes by James K. Baxter, John Ross and John Patterson.

Author

Patterson, David (David Andrew), 1938-1958

Publication

Wellington, Aotearoa, N.Z. : Steele Roberts ; c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• French, Anne, 1956-
• Baxter, James K.
• Ross, John.
• Patterson, John, 1941-

Description

78 p. ; ill., port.; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

• Up over
• Up over a

Subject

• 1900-1999
• New Zealand poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

New Zealand poetry – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Epigraph -- Introduction / Anne French -- Autumn poem -- Up over alpha -- Lyric -- Around the quaking hut -- The sun's breaking -- Contentment -- In from the sea -- At the crater of Ruapehu -- In a dim room he lay -- Me and the moon -- All the way to the jail -- The greywacke man -- A dream -- A young man walks at night along a road -- Hunger -- Reinga -- Brothers -- This beach is a fearful place -- Afternoon sun -- Dentes tenaci -- Storm-beach (at the north tip of Kapiti) -- Samson -- Entranced -- The underworld -- To look your end in the face -- Cloudy moonlight -- Bebiotai -- Victim of the siren -- Heart scooped out -- The world has shrunk -- The third sister -- On the lower Waingawa Gorge -- Whataitai -- Truth is a wind to shiver in -- Panic-song of the college council -- Lamb to the slaughter -- Launch to Kapiti -- Tributes : To a dead friend ; Near Kapiti / James K Baxter. Two friends, in the Tararua Ranges / JC Ross. Lovedance ; We do not cry / John Patterson -- Biographical note / John Patterson.

ISBN

• 1877338672
• 9781877338670

OCLC

• 67838909
• SCSB-12777480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library