Research Catalog

Title

The nature of things : poems from the New Zealand landscape / edited by James Brown ; photographs by Craig Potton.

Publication

Nelson, NZ : Craig Potton Pub., 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baxter, James K.
• Brown, James, 1966-
• Potton, Craig

Description

128 p. : col. ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Landscapes in literature
• Nature in literature
• New Zealand > Poetry
• New Zealand > In literature
• New Zealand > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Poetry

Note

• "Poets include: James K. Baxter ... [et al.]"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Deep in the hills / Ruth Dallas -- Lake, mountain, tree / Denis Glover -- Collecting pipi / Glenn Colquhoun -- Crossing the Canterbury Plains / Brian Turner -- Hope / Dinah Hawken -- At the Franz Josef Glacier / James K. Baxter -- The end / Janet Frame -- Still shines when you think of it / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Haiku / Hone Tuwhare -- In the territory / Maurice Duggan -- Lake idyll / Lauris Edmond -- Ornamental gorse / Chris Orsman -- Place / Brian Turner -- Make sure / Jenny Bornholdt -- A summer at Purakanui / Iain Lonie -- Waitomo / Kendrick Smithyman -- A dead lamb / Allen Curnow -- Waitohi / Rhian Gallagher -- Candour / Ursula Bethell -- In Central Otago / Ruth Dallas -- To Ernst Dieffenbach / Ian Wedde -- The scene / Denis Glover -- So you don't belong, pohoot / Naomi O'Connor -- The cave / James K. Baxter -- Far north / Brian Turner -- Matukituki / Michael Jackson -- Small apocalypse / John Dickson -- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods / Allen Curnow -- The Sounds / Andrew Johnston -- Seeing the Red Hills again / Kerry Popplewell -- Low tide, Aramoana / Cilla McQueen -- Storm warning / Gregory O'Brien -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / James K. Baxter -- A talk with my cousin, alone / Hone Tuwhare -- The magpies / Denis Glover -- The issue of water / Dinah Hawken -- Alp / Brian Turner -- Aftermath / Meg Campbell -- The old man's example / Bill Manhire -- Violinist at the edge of an ice field / Stephanie de Montalk -- A white gentian / Sam Hunt -- Luncheon Cove / Cilla McQueen -- Snow / Janet Frame -- Flood / Hone Tuwhare -- Waiotapu / Fionnaigh McKenzie -- Talking to a tree fern / Dinah Hawken -- Forerunners / Charles Brasch -- Pinnacle Ridge, Mt Ruapehu / Kevin Ireland -- The estuary / A.R.D. Fairburn -- September / Lauris Edmond -- The sea question / Elizabeth Smither -- Opening the book / John Newton -- Proposal at Allans Beach / Iain Lonie -- Kapiti / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Weathered rocks / Ursula Bethell -- High country weather / James K. Baxter -- Magpie crooning / Bill Manhire.

ISBN

• 1877333336
• 9781877333330

OCLC

• 126852057
• SCSB-11914313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library