Great Sporting Moments The Best of Sport

The literary magazineSportburst onto the scene in 1988 and has come to define a wildly creative generation of New Zealand writers. This collection of nearly two decades of writings showcases authors such as Barbara Anderson, Jenny Bornhold, Nigel Cox, Anne Kennedy, Elizabeth Knox, Emily Perkins, and Damien Wilkins.

Introduction

9

(12)

Day Out

21

(6)

Barbara Anderson

Peppermint Frogs

27

(5)

The Badder & the Better

32

(1)

Nick Ascroft

Pa'u-stina

33

(2)

Tusiata Avia

Liver

35

(1)

Hinemoana Baker

Membrane

36

(2)

Paola Bilbrough

Why Do Sonnets Have 14 Lines?

38

(3)

Graham Bishop

Wellington 1955

41

(1)

Peter Bland

The Man Dean Went to Photograph

42

(1)

Jenny Bornholdt

Villanelle

43

(1)

His Father's Shoes

44

(6)

William Brandt

(damaged by water)

50

(1)

James Brown

The Book of Sadness

51

(2)

A Mullet in Luxor

53

(17)

David Burton

What People Want

70

(4)

Rachel Bush

My father's speakers

74

(2)

Edmund Cake

The spine gives up its saddest stories

76

(1)

Kate Camp

Birthday Photograph, 1989

77

(1)

Charles Causley

The Craters of the Moon

78

(8)

Catherine Chidgey

Big Louis

86

(6)

Inga Clendinnen

Pile Diary

92

(2)

Geoff Cochrane

The Boiler-House

94

(2)

An Explanation of Poetry to My Father

96

(19)

Glenn Colquhoun

Efforts at Burial

115

(9)

Tim Corballis

Boys on Islands

124

(6)

Nigel Cox

Alan Preston

130

(4)

Investigations at the Public Baths

134

(2)

Allen Curnow

Hunger

136

(1)

Lynn Davidson

`Blokes can relate to concrete'

137

(5)

Stephanie de Montalk

A Couple of Mongols

142

(1)

John Dolan

The Adoration of the Kings

143

(5)

Paul Durcan

The Inhabited Initial

148

(8)

Fiona Farrell

Only touch me with your eyes

156

(7)

Laurence Fearnley

Ophelia

163

(8)

Cliff Fell

First Sailing

171

(1)

Rhian Gallagher

Irene and Gaye

172

(1)

David Geary

To Mrs Bold from Little Gollop

173

(1)

Annora Gollop

The Email Drought

174

(7)

Josh Greenberg

Go Easy, Sweetheart

181

(1)

Bernadette Hall

Art Can't Smile

182

(12)

Peter Hall-Jones

Mirror Poem

194

(1)

Josef Hanzlik

from The Harbour Poems

195

(3)

Dinah Hawken

Acrid

198

(8)

Debbie Hill

Sometimes I Dream I'm Driving

206

(6)

Keri Hulme

My life when I had a life

212

(5)

Anna Jackson

Binoculars

217

(1)

Andrew Johnston

Saudade

218

(1)

Journey Through a Painted Landscape

219

(13)

Lloyd Jones

The Field

232

(1)

Kapka Kassabova

Sunday, Across the Tasman

233

(2)

August Kleinzahler

Afraid

235

(21)

Elizabeth Knox

Grace to the Goodsyard

256

(1)

Emma Lew

from On the Burning Deck

257

(17)

J.H. Macdonald

Off the Record

274

(45)

Samara McDowell

Some Folk-singers and a Theologian

319

(8)

Dennis McEldowney

Not Telling

327

(9)

Convert to You

336

(3)

Stuart McKenzie

Marshmallow

339

(5)

Frankie McMillan

Map

344

(1)

Cilla McQueen

A Dissolving Ghost

345

(25)

Margaret Mahy

The Poet's Wife

370

(10)

Bill Manhire

My Sunshine

380

(1)

Moonlight

381

(1)

Tunes for Bears to Dance to

382

(12)

Owen Marshall

Mad Hatter Days

394

(3)

Glaze

397

(2)

Les Murray

The Run-Off

399

(7)

Gregory O'Brien

Tin Can Island

406

(1)

Chris Orsman

The Child in the Gardens: Winter

407

(1)

Vincent O'Sullivan

Why Biographers Fudge It

408

(1)

Beginnings and Endings

409

(22)

Bill Pearson

Not Her Real Name

431

(34)

Emily Perkins

Fire

465

(7)

Chris Pigott

Mix

472

(1)

Chris Price

I hope my mother will come soon

473

(6)

Jo Randerson

Insomnia is a window of opportunity

479

(1)

Marg Ranger

A Memoir

480

(2)

Frances Samuel

Candles

482

(1)

Alex Scobie

The Family Album

483

(8)

Adam Shelton

Fugue

491

(22)

Carl Shuker

The Sloth

513

(2)

Elizabeth Smither

Cartoons

515

(6)

C.K. Stead

Close of Day, Oturehua

521

(1)

Brian Turner

Ballad for Worser Heberley

522

(6)

Ian Wedde

from One of THEM!

528

(16)

Peter Wells

Conversion

544

(9)

Damien Wilkins

from Motel View

553

(7)

Forbes Williams

Old Car

560

(1)

Ashleigh Young

Starting over in autumn

561

(2)

Fay Zwicky

Contributors' Notes & Acknowledgements

563

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