Classic NZ Poets in Performance (2006)

Cover illustration: Pat Hanly / Cover design: Christine Hansen /
Text design: Katrina Duncan

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Edited by Jack Ross. Poems selected by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. ISBN 1-86940-367-3. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

A. R. D. Fairburn (1904-1957)
Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
The Cave
Cupid
Walking on my Feet
Biography / Selected Bibliography

R. A. K. Mason (1905-1971)
The Spark’s Farewell to its Clay
Out from Sea-Bondage
Be Swift O Sun
Stoic Overthrow
Flow at Full Moon
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Charles Brasch (1909-1973)
from In Your Presence:
'I read your signature'
'Morepork, Shrewd Sentry Owl'
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Allen Curnow (1911-2001)
House and Land
The Unhistoric Story
The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
A Dead Lamb
Any Time Now
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Denis Glover (1912-1980)
The Magpies
Threnody
Biography / Selected Bibliography

M. K. Joseph (1914-1981)
Drunken Gunners
Mercury Bay Eclogue I
Mercury Bay Eclogue II
Elegy in a City Railyard
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Keith Sinclair (1922-1993)
E. D. S. (1893-1969)
The Bomb is Made
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Kendrick Smithyman (1922-1995)
Communicating
Inlet
Near Ellon
Closing the Chocolate Factory
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Hone Tuwhare (b.1922)
Rain
No ordinary sun
cummings
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Lauris Edmond (1924-2000)
Before a Funeral
Scar Tissue
yellow-eyed penguin
Autumn in Canada
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Janet Frame (1924-2004)
The Cat of Habit
The Icicles
Lines Written at the Frank Sargeson Centre
O Lung Flowering Like a Tree
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Louis Johnson (1924-1988)
Singing to the Ancestors
Words for Blair Peach
The Seventies
Coming and Going
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (b.1925)
The Gunfighter
Home from Hospital
Lest We Forget
Maori Battalion Veteran
Biography / Selected Bibliography

James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
Poem in the Matukituki Valley
Prospector
The Fallen House
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Alistair Paterson (b.1929)
Jenny Roache Love all the Boys in the World
On reading Robert Bly’s Selected Poems while sitting at a desk near a calendar
bearing photographs of boats and shadows of boats on water
The dictionary of battles
Biography / Selected Bibliography

C. K. Stead (b.1932)
from April Notebook
Birthday Sonnet
from The Masks of Catullus
Between
Auckland
Horation
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Kevin Ireland (b.1933)
A Hard Country
Cloud
A Whiff of the Old Adam
Villanelle for a Smile
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Fleur Adcock (b.1934)
A Game
The Pilgrim Fathers
Camping
Smokers for Celibacy
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Peter Bland (b.1934)
Death of a Dog
The Nose
The Happy Army
Shopping with Brigitte Bardot
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Michael Harlow (b.1937)
No Problem, But Not Easy
Cassandra’s Daughter
Today is the Piano’s Birthday
And, yes
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Vincent O’Sullivan (b.1937)
Butcher in Sunlight
Butcher on Life in General
Still Shines when you Think of it
Elegy for a School Mate
Seeing You Asked
Before you go
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Riemke Ensing (b.1939)
Morning Glory
Love Affair
T’ai Chi
Transport
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Albert Wendt (b.1939)
Conversation
The Mountains of Ta’ū
On Our Way
Over Ponsonby
Scavengers
Bus
Bound For Whangamata
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Michael Jackson (b.1940)
Shape-Shifter
The Red Road
Seven Mysteries
Sudan
Green Turtle
Biography / Selected Bibliography

David Mitchell (b.1940)
my lai / remuera / ponsonby
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Elizabeth Smither (b.1941)
Red shoes
Smoking with Carol
Saveloy
Listening to The Goldberg Variations
Late Summer Dew
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Brian Turner (b.1944)
Trout
Training on the Peninsula
Fish
Pig
One Night Stand
In the Swim
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Track List

Variant Readings

Bibliography

Teaching Notes:

The Imaginary Museum

Reviews:

Works & Days

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