Poetry NZ 38 (2009)

Cover design: Bill Wieben / Cover photography: Nic Brown

Poetry New Zealand 38 (March 2009). ISSN 0114-5770. 111 pp.

Contents:

Jack Ross / Editorial / 9

FEATURE

Jen Crawford / background / 10

– / from Pop Riveter / 11-26

POEMS

Johanna Aitchison / We Have Come to Collect Our Lives / 27

– / Sibling Rivalry / 28

Raewyn Alexander / ‘Men a mystery to me’ / 29

– / Beautiful liars and their gloss / 30

Rosetta Allan / Uncle / 31

Ruth Arnison / The bare facts / 32

Serie Barford / The Takata Effect / 33

Guy R. Beining / A knight without armorment / 34

Robert James Berry / Rasputin / 35

Iain Britton / Pania / 36

Tony Chad / Signature Brand / 37

Janet Charman / Wahine / 38

Jennifer Compton / – I Like That Clown / 39

– / The Pines / 40

Craig Cotter / rice balls for son / 41

Brett Cross / Prophet / 42

Shirley Deuchrass / Aestralata lessoni / 43

Grant Duncan / Conductress / 44

– / Crepusculum / 45

J. J. Fagan / Kumara Diggers / 46

Derek Fenton / A Tale of Two Heroes / 47

Sue Fitchett / Sweet & sour notes / 48

Janis Freegard / Magpie / 49

Michael Hall / Small town takeaway / 50

Alice Hooton / Café Black Cat / 51

– / Mrs Casy / 52

David Howard / On Bertolt Brecht’s Birthday / 53

– / You should have seen them go / 53

– / Come down / 54-55

Linda Hunter / Moon Creek / 56

Hayden Hyams / Rattle / 57

– / Waitakere / 58

Helen Jacobs / The White of Winter / 59

Sophia Johnson / These hills / 60

Mahdy Khaiyat / Nice / 61

Leonard Lambert / Curtain-call / 62

Noel Monahan / The Calf-Bearer / 63

Tim Nees / Buying Power / 64

Jenny O’Brien / Night / 65

John O’Connor / Five Haiku / 66

– / River Talk / 67

Jacqueline C. Ottaway / Tales out of School / 68

– / André Went to Christchurch / 69

Mark Pirie / The Park / 70-71

Kerry Popplewell / Konini School, 1910 / 72

– / Summer 1943 / 73

Lee Posna / An Address / 74

– / A degree in November Spring / 75

– / Blood in the mountain / 76

Richard Reeve / Inquisition / 77

– / Elegy / 78

– / Dawn / 79

Nicholas Reid / Homage to Diogenes / 80-81

Michael Sharkey / Young Woman with a Tea-Towel / 82

Michael Steven / On Francis Street / 83

– / Seventeen Seconds: Mahurangi Ridge / 84

– / The eel (after Montale) / 85-86

Ann Walker / Notes on a Day / 87

– / The day Lauris Edmond died / 88

Saint James Harris Wood / Cash Crow, Cash Crow / 89

– / Tumbleweed / 90-92

COMMENT

Lee Posna / Contemporary American Poetry / 93-100

REVIEWS

Richard Reeve/ Jack Ross & Jan Kemp, ed. NZ Poets in Performance, 3 vols (Auckland: AUP, 2006-8) / 101-6

Jack Ross / Books & Magazines in brief / 107-8:

• Coral Atkinson & David Gregory, ed. Land very Fertile: Banks Peninsula in Poetry & Prose (Christchurch: CUP, 2008)
• Stu Bagby, ed. Just Another Fantastic Anthology: Auckland in Poetry (Auckland: Antediluvian Press, 2008)
• Helen Bascand, into the vanishing point (Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2007)
• Michael Harlow, The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap (Auckland: AUP, 2009)
• John O’Connor, Parts of the Moon: Selected Haiku & Senryu, 1988-2007 (Teneriffe, Queensland: Post Pressed, 2007)
• Takahe 64 (Winter 2008)

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES / 109-11

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