NZ Poets Read Their Work (1974)

Cover design & image: Pat Hanly

collected & edited by Jonathan Lamb, Jan Kemp & Alan Smythe
(Waiata Records, 1974)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read their Work (1):

Track – Author – Poems – Timing

[LP 1, side 1]

1. Alistair Campbell – Against Te Rauparaha – 2.21
2. Alan Brunton – The Man on Crazies Hill – 3.35
3. M. K. Joseph – Cinderella – 0.54
4. M. K. Joseph – Drunken Gunners – 1.49
4a. M. K. Joseph – Chronosemasiology
5. Vincent O’Sullivan – Butcher in Sunlight – 1.01
6. Vincent O’Sullivan – I have taken a Thrush – 3.13
6a. Vincent O’Sullivan – Medusa
7. Arthur Baysting – A Tale for Gene – 3.03
7a. Arthur Baysting – Hawks
7b. Arthur Baysting – Black Swans
8. Albert Wendt – Town and Village – 1.40
8a. Albert Wendt – Conch Shell
9. D. S. Long – The Winter Fisherman – 1.40
10. G. J. Melling – Pre-election Address 1972 – 1.06
11. Alan Roddick – The Riddle – 1.08
12. Jack Lasenby – My Father’s Tree – 0.56
13. Mike Doyle – At Karekare Beach – 1.52
13a. Mike Doyle – One’s Once One
14. Mike Doyle – The Journey of Meng Chiao - 2.44

[LP 1, side 2]

15. Allen Curnow – Lone Kauri Road – 6.22
15a. Allen Curnow – Two Pedestrians with One Thought
15b. Allen Curnow – Magnificat
16. Denis Glover – Sunday Morning – 0.59
16a. Denis Glover – Death of a Dictator – 2.26
17. Denis Glover – The Scientist
18. Kendrick Smithyman – Proposition – 2.19
18a. Kendrick Smithyman – Inlet
19. Sam Hunt – A Purple Balloon – 4.00
19a. Sam Hunt – Time to Ride
20. Sam Hunt – Notes from a Journey – 1.08
21. Ian Wedde – Sleeping Indian – 3.07
22. Ken Arvidson – This Giving – 1.51
22a. Ken Arvidson – The Tall Wind
23. Bill Manhire – The Old Man’s Example – 2.22
23a. Bill Manhire – The Spell
23b. Bill Manhire – The Prayer
24. Raymond Ward – Watching Snow – 1.32
25. Bob Orr – On Out – 1.18
26. Alan Loney – In Mem. Wati Carcook – 1.25

New Zealand Poets Read their Work (2):

Track – Author – Poems – Timing

[LP 2, side 1]

1. C. K. Stead – Whether the Will is Free – 2.00
2. C. K. Stead – Ode: At the Grave of M. McDermott – 2.25
3. R. A. K. Mason – The Spark’s Farewell to Its Clay – 1.15
4. R. A. K. Mason – Out from Sea Bondage – 1.13
5. R. A. K. Mason – Be Swift O Sun – 1.42
6. Charles Brasch – Ben Rudd – 1.23
7. Charles Brasch – from In Your Presence – 1.25
8. Gloria Rawlinson – Thames Coast Fossicker – 1.46
9. Gloria Rawlinson – Then – and Again – 1.57
10. Fleur Adcock – Incident – 1.14
11. Fleur Adcock – A Game – 1.05
12. Fleur Adcock – Stewart Island – 0.54
13. Keith Sinclair – The Tree and the Bird – 1.25
14. Keith Sinclair – A Night full of Nothing – 1.04
15. Barry Southam – Nostalgic Lover Looking Backward – 1.00
16. Barry Southam – For No Reason – 1.05
17. Russell Haley – Gigolo in Mourning – 1.40
18. Peter Hooper – The Saviours – 1.15
19. Peter Hooper – Observation from a fixed Point – 0.23
20. Kevin Ireland – Deposition – 0.23
21. Kevin Ireland – Thorn and Wind – 0.22
22. Kevin Ireland – Threnody (for Bob Lowry) – 1.07
23. Barry Mitcalfe – Prelude to the Sun – 1.34

[LP 2, side 2]

24. Janet Frame – The Flowering Cherry – 2.27
25. Janet Frame – O Lung Flowering Like a Tree – 0.52
26. James K. Baxter – Poem in the Matukituki Valley – 3.06
27. David Mitchell – Penelope / Bright and Bare – 2.11
28. David Mitchell – My Lai / Remuera / Ponsonby – 1.07
29. David Mitchell – Celebrant – 1.35
30. David Mitchell – Silences – 1.34
31. A. R. D. Fairburn – Full Fathom Five – 1.23
32. A. R. D. Fairburn – A Farewell – 0.49
33. A. R. D. Fairburn – The Cave – 2.02
34. Jan Kemp – Song of City Wastrel … – 0.28
35. Jan Kemp – A Pattern of Loving – 1.24
36. Jan Kemp – Words were Whispers – 0.41
37. Michael Jackson – Paremata – 1.26
38. Alistair Paterson – Supermarket – 2.14

NZ Poets Read their Work for Children:

Track – Author – Poems – Timing

[LP 3, side 1]

1. C. K. Stead – For a Children’s LP – 0.36
2. C. K. Stead – For a Children’s LP – 0.36 –
3. C. K. Stead – Ecology – 0.35
4. C. K. Stead – Dissolution – 1.15
5. A. R. D. Fairburn – Walking on My Feet – 1.33
6. A. R. D. Fairburn – Away from it All – 0.43
7. Gloria Rawlinson – The Old Coach Road – 2.03
8. Gloria Rawlinson – Street Light – 1.03
9. Gloria Rawlinson – The New Motorway – 0.36
10. Gloria Rawlinson – The Little White Pigeon – 0.38
11. Denis Glover – The Magpies – 1.38
12. Denis Glover – For a Child – 1.09
13. Denis Glover – The Weather Cast – 0.49
14. Denis Glover – Threnody – 0.44
15. Jan Kemp – The Old Guard – 0.53
16. Kevin Ireland – Antic Hay – 0.56
17. Kevin Ireland – A Hard Country – 1.32 –
18. James K. Baxter – Prospector – 1.48
19. Trevor Reeves – Beach – 0.30
20. Trevor Reeves – Dust Flies – 0.35 –
21. Trevor Reeves – Silence – 0.33 –
22. Trevor Reeves – Impasse – 1.33 –
23. Mike Doyle – Growing a Beard – 1.05
23a. Mike Doyle – The Tree
24. G. J. Melling – The Passing of Ernie – 0.36

[LP 3, side 2]

25. M. K. Joseph – Girl, Boy, Flower, Bicycle – 1.28
25a. M. K. Joseph – The Dancing Ploughmen
26. M. K. Joseph – Elegy in a City Railyard – 1.31
27. Alistair Campbell – At a Fishing Settlement – 1.22
28. Alistair Campbell – The Gunfighter – 1.37
29. Alistair Campbell – The Cromwell Gorge – 0.43
30. Sam Hunt – School Policy on Stickmen – 0.39
31. Sam Hunt – Four Bow-wow Poems: 1 – 0.28
32. Sam Hunt – Four Bow-wow Poems: 2 – 0.24
33. Sam Hunt – Four Bow-wow Poems: 3 – 0.32
34. Sam Hunt – Four Bow-wow Poems: 4 – 0.14
35. Sam Hunt – Four Cobweb Poems – 1.26
36. Sam Hunt – A Mangaweka Road Song – 0.55
37. Fleur Adcock – The Pangolin – 1.15
38. Fleur Adcock – Country Station – 0.54
39. Arthur Baysting – On Taming a Dragon – 1.09
40. Arthur Baysting – The Oddsock Plan – 1.48 –
41. Arthur Baysting – The Day the Toads Came to Town – 1.45
41a. Arthur Baysting – The Lion
42. Janet Frame – The Cabbages – 1.27
43. Albert Wendt – Flying Fox – 0.39
44. Albert Wendt – Conversation – 0.24
45. Barry Mitcalfe – Te Aohuruhuru – 1.34
46. Barry Mitcalfe – Lament – 1.24 –
47. Jack Lasenby – My Uncle Chris – 0.56
48. Alan Roddick – Some Notes on Balloon Trees – 0.55