New New Zealand Poets in Performance

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ISBN: 9781869404093 | 1869404092
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Copyright: 10/1/2008

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From Anne Kennedy to Andrew Johnston, this exciting collection of poetry celebrates the richness of clashing ideas, voices, and genders that combine to make contemporary culture. A companion and follow-up edition toNew Zealand Poets in Performance, this volume features the collected works of 28 young and mid-career New Zealand poets, who rose to prominence in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000snotable for their fresh approach to the poetic form and distinctive but complimentary voices. Complete with short biographies and an appendix of variant readings, this compilation also includes two CDs of poets reading their own selected works.

I was a feminist in the eighties	p. 1
Cat Tales	p. 2
Whenua (2)	p. 4
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 4
Talking Sideways	p. 6
Social Studies	p. 8
On the Eighth Day	p. 10
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 11
Lunch	p. 12
Ferret trap	p. 13
Inland	p. 14
Opening the Book	p. 15
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 16
Plea to the Spanish Lady	p. 17
God is near the Equator	p. 18
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 19
Rodnie and her bicycles	p. 20
Bus stop	p. 21
Weather	p. 22
Then Murray came	p. 23
Please, pay attention	p. 24
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 25
Carnival of Chocolate	p. 26
Linda	p. 27
Lunch Box	p. 28
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 29
Epithalamium, Wellington	p. 30
It will be better then	p. 31
Solomon singing	p. 32
from Great Lake	p. 33
There is only one	p. 35
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 36
Ghastlily	p. 38
The Origins of Science	p. 39
Keeping ravens	p. 40
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 41
Kahola	p. 43
He	p. 45
Liogi	p. 45
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 46
Except Once	p. 47
A Woman Named Intrepid	p. 47
Idyll	p. 48
Disorder and Early Sorrow	p. 49
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 50
How to Talk	p. 52
How to Walk	p. 52
Les Baillessats	p. 53
The Present	p. 55
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 57
from Whakapapa	p. 58
She asked me if she took one pill for her heart...	p. 60
Lost property	p. 60
On the death of my grandmother	p. 61
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 63
Details from a personal journal	p. 64
Gasp	p. 65
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 66
narrow neck from the boat ramp	p. 68
1YA	p. 69
writing desk	p. 70
whangaparaoa - on the sundeck	p. 71
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 72
My Dog	p. 73
My First Time in Samoa	p. 74
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt	p. 75
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 76
Loneliness	p. 77
Soup From a Stone	p. 78
The Crewe Cres Kids	p. 79
The Day I Stopped Writing Poetry	p. 80
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 81
The hen of tiredness	p. 82
Takahe	p. 83
On the road with Rose	p. 84
In a minute	p. 85
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 85
New York Four	p. 87
Restless	p. 91
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 92
Waka 46	p. 93
V Honda Waka	p. 94
Waka 70	p. 95
Waka 62 A narrator's note	p. 96
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 97
Spoken For	p. 99
Jane Coleridge	p. 100
You're Telling Me	p. 101
Confessional Poem	p. 102
Caroline Helstone	p. 102
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 103
Postcard	p. 104
Documentaries	p. 105
Backroads	p. 106
Water of the Sweet Life	p. 107
Guests	p. 108
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 108
anatomy of dancing with your future wife	p. 109
Biography day	p. 111
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 112
The Badder & the Better	p. 113
All of the Other Ascrofts Are Dead	p. 114
Cheap Present	p. 115
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 116
Preparation for the big emptiness	p. 117
One morning like a sleeper	p. 118
My life in two parts	p. 119
A city of pierced amphorae	p. 120
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 121
Forecast	p. 122
One Hundred Hours	p. 123
Scorpion Daughter	p. 125
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 126
Good Looks	p. 127
Making a Point	p. 128
Progress	p. 129
The Third Form	p. 129
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 130
Outhwaite Park	p. 132
Outer Suburb	p. 134
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 135
Dark Unloading: A Villanelle	p. 136
Ranfurly	p. 137
Victory Beach	p. 138
Biography / Selected Bibliography	p. 138
Track List	p. 139
Variant Readings	p. 142
Bibliography	p. 145
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