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Title

Twenty contemporary New Zealand poets : an anthology / edited with an introduction by Andrew Johnston and Robyn Marsack.

Publication

Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Marsack, Robyn
• Johnston, Andrew

Description

224 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Selection of poems written from 1986 onwards.

Alternative Title

20 contemporary New Zealand poets

Subject

• 1900-2099
• New Zealand poetry > 20th century
• New Zealand poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• New Zealand poetry – 20th century.
• Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A raised voice ; Moules à la marinière ; The loop in Lone Kauri Road ; Continuum ; The pug-mill ; An evening light ; The unclosed door ; Ten steps to the sea / Allen Curnow -- We, who live in darkness ; Dear cousin ; Deep river talk ; Reign again ; To safe harbour & estaury come ; 'I feel like a vulnerable pā-site' / Hone Tuwhare -- After the wedding ; Auckland ; Absence ; On turning seventy ; History : the horse ; Without ; The art of poetry (i) / C.K. Stead -- Liberal ; Surfacing ; Set, match ; Seeing you asked ; Right on ; A bit late, but still ; The child in the gardens : winter ; River road, due south ; Blame Vermeer / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Barbary Coast ; Hotel terminus ; To my twin brother ; To art and praxis ; To Taranaki ; To Mount Victoria ; To my sons ; From 'a hymn to beauty : days of a year' / Ian Wedde --^
• Out west ; Milky Way bar ; Our father ; Adélie ; Withour form ; The ladder ; Opoutere ; Erebus voices ; Hotel emergencies ; Kevin ; The victims of lightning / Bill Manhire -- A question of gravity ; A cortège of daughters ; The Tudor style ; A small potato crop ; The sea question ; Te Whiti and Tohu ; In memory of my parents ; The death of old women / Elizabeth Smither -- Drain ; After ; Chevy ; Semi-Kiwi ; Tombed ; Taking off ; Cycling in the Maniototo / Brian Turner -- Otherwise ; Tangi at Mitimiti ; Hinewai ; Wacky language ; The mess we made at Port Chalmers ; Joanna ; Frost / Cilla McQueen -- From 'writing home : 1, 5, 15' ; From 'the harbour poems : 1' ; I can do it ; Lyric ; Light is the word for light ; Pure science ; The dream child ; Thinking about forgiveness / Dinah Hawken -- A visiting card ; Whole forgotten days ; Storm warning ; Ode to the Waihi Beach dump ; Four Taranaki poems ; Ode to the chair / Gregory O'Brien --^
• Make sure ; Then Murray came ; Wedding song ; Villanelle ; Being a poet ; Night life ; Confessional ; Illness ; Mrs Winter's jum / Jenny Bornholdt -- Anne Brown's song ; Charlotte O'Neill's song ; Creed ; 'But where's this country's soul?' asked the visiting novelist... ; Eel ; Spades ; The book of the dun cow ; Betting / Fiona Farrell -- Amica ; Iconoclast ; Bowl ; Miriama ; From 'tomahawk sonnets : i-iv' ; Poem in the Matukituki Valley ; Wai-te-ata ; Snow falling / Bernadette Hall -- An ambulance ; Persimmons? ; Elegies ; The picnic ; Impersonating Bono ; Hypnic jerks ; Black pan ; Starship / Geoff Cochrane -- From 'Tai Tokerau poems : 1' ; Waka 99 ; Voice carried my family, their names and stories ; South Point, Hawai'i ; From 'the ocean of Kiwa'. Mai. Queen Charlotte Sound. I/eyes/ae ; Ahi kā -- the house of Ngā Puhi ; After the UN rapporteur supported Māori customary rights / Robert Sullivan --^
• Capitalism explained ; The day I stopped writing poetry ; University open day ; The end of the runway ; I come from Palmerston North ; The year of the mountain ; The wicked / James Brown -- A problem while translating the Treaty of Waitangi ; Bred in South Auckland ; The indigenous pakeha ; Mothers, love your sons ; A medical education ; The morning after a night spent taking blood ; The arrangement of her skin / Glenn Colquhoun -- North-western motorway ; Prayer replacing sleep ; I was a feminist in the eighties ; Nuclear winter ; From 'die, die : live, live : 1' / Anne Kennedy -- Return to paradise ; Ode to da life ; Shower ; Vasega : da revolution is coming ; Pa'u-stina ; Wild dogs under my skirt ; Nafanua is a girl from Aranui ; Nafanua meets Mr Raytheon ; Nafanua goes to Russia and meets some friends from back home / Tusiata Avia.

ISBN

• 9781857549768 (pbk.)
• 1857549767 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 262887662
• SCSB-12586164

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library