Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance (2007)

Cover illustration: Richard Killeen / Cover design: Christine Hansen /
Text design: Katrina Duncan

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance. Edited by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. ISBN 978 1 86940 395 9. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

Contents

Preface: Voiceprints

Acknowledgements

Peter Olds (b. 1944)
Waking up in Phillip Street
Doctors Rock
Elephant
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Bernadette Hall (b. 1945)
Party Tricks
The Lay Sister
Famine
Amica
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Stephanie de Montalk (b. 1945)
Tree Marriage
Northern Spring
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Alan Brunton (1946-2002)
The Man on Crazies Hill
from Waves
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Sam Hunt (b. 1946)
My Father Scything
Rainbows and a Promise of Snow
Hey, Minstrel
Plateau Songs
Bottle to Battle to Death
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Bill Manhire (b. 1946)
The Old Man’s Example
Domestic
On Originality
Visiting Mr Shackleton
Miscarriage
Valedictory
A Song about the Moon
Biography / Selected Bibliography

James Norcliffe (b. 1946)
at Franz Josef
planchette
the visit of the dalai lama
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Ian Wedde (b. 1946)
Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos 31
Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos 32
Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos 35
Barbary Coast
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Fiona Farrell (b. 1947)
Anne Brown’s Song
Instructions for the Consumption of Your Humanitarian Food Package
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Keri Hulme (b. 1947)
from Fisher in an Autumn Tide
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Murray Edmond (b. 1949)
Voyager
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Jan Kemp (b. 1949)
Against the Softness of Woman
Jousting
The Sky’s Enormous Jug
Sailing Boats
‘Love is a babe …’
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Cilla McQueen (b. 1949)
Living Here
Fuse
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Bob Orr (b. 1949)
The X
A Country Shaped like a Butterfly’s Wing
Ballad of the Great South Rd
Eternity
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Geoff Cochrane (b. 1951)
Spindrift Sunday
1988
Zigzags
Atlantis
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Bill Sewell (1951-2003)
Jahrhundertwende
Riversdale
Breaking the Quiet
Censorship
Biography / Selected Bibliography

David Eggleton (b. 1952)
Poem for the Unknown Tourist
Teen Angel
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Graham Lindsay (b. 1952)
Playground
Cloud silence
Life in the Queen’s English
Chink
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Iain Sharp (b. 1953)
Amnesty Day
Two Minute Poem
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Janet Charman (b. 1954)
'they say that in paradise'
ready steady
from wake up to yourself
but she wanted one
cuckoo in the nest
injection
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Paula Green (b. 1955)
greek salad
oven-baked salmon
afternoon tea with Virginia Woolf
two minutes westward
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Vivienne Plumb (b. 1955)
A Letter from My Daughter
The Vegan Bar and Gaming Lounge
The Tank
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Apirana Taylor (b. 1955)
Sad Joke on a Marae
Parihaka
Hinemoa’s daughter
six million
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Anne French (b. 1956)
The New Museology
Trout
Acute
Uncle Ron’s Last Surprise
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Michele Leggott (b. 1956)
cairo vessel
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Richard von Sturmer (b. 1957)
Dreams
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Roma Potiki (b. 1958)
Exploding Light
For Paiki
Riven
Biography / Selected Bibliography

Track List

Variant Readings

Bibliography

Teaching Notes:

The Imaginary Museum

Reviews:

Works & Days

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