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(damaged by water) by James Brown
[Nigel Cox] interviewed by Damien Wilkins by Nigel Cox
[untitled] by Geoff Cochrane
>Sweet Talk by Brent Kininmont
1YA by Sonja Yelich
41. Molecule’s dream by John Gallas
6:35 am/pm by Emma Neale
72. clean the next night by John Gallas
95. Fossil Point by John Gallas
Abandoned Novel by David Beach
A Birdless Tree by Elizabeth Smither
A bit off the map by Kate Camp
A Book of Rains by Medbh McGuckian
About Our Previous Hero by Virginia Fenton
A Brooch On Your Lapel by Nick Ascroft
A Busy Port by Allen Curnow
A Catechism by Jocelyn 'tui' Wilson
Accounting Poem by MICHAEL MINTROM
A Couple of Mongols by John Dolan
Across the Briny by Paola Bilbrough
A Culbertbook by Gregory O'Brien
Adolf Hitler’s father was a bastard... by Koenraad Kuiper
A Drop of Mercury by Chris Price
A Eulogy for Brian Rodney Bell, 1929-2000 by Geoff Cochrane
A Facing Page by Allen Curnow
a fishing voice... by Janet Charman
A flock of migrating starlings by Piero Bigongiari
A Friday Morning by Momoe von Reiche
After a poem by Donald Justice, After a phrase abandoned by Wallace Stevens by Kerry Hines
After My Mother Was Done With Me by Sharon Olds
Afternoon Dream by Andrew Johnston
Afternoon Tea with Mr Shklovsky by Anna Jackson
After such events by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
After the First Dream by Kate Camp
After the Movie by Bill Manhire
Against Housework by Elizabeth Nannestad
Agnes by Andrew Johnston
A Hermit’s Notebook by Peter Bland
A History by Glenn Colquhoun
A Humid Night in Grey Lynn by Peter Bland
A hymn to beauty: days of a year by Ian Wedde
Air (on a tin whistle) by CHRIS PRICE
Airborne by Paola Bilbrough
Airmail from Tuscany by Grant Duncan
Aitche by ANDREW JOHNSTON
A Japanese Wave by Louise White
A Ken Bolton Reader by Gregory O'Brien
Alabama by Virginia Were
Albeniz from a window by James Norcliffe
A Lesson in Light by Grant Duncan
A Letter from My Daughter by Vivienne Plumb
All of Us Meet in a Tree by ASHLEIGH YOUNG
All one can do, really by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
All the keys in the world by Kate Camp
Almas Que Amalgamas by Richard von Sturmer
Along the edges by Miranda Johnson
A Lyric by Geoff Cochrane
A Man Walking in White Shoes by Elizabeth Smither
A Matter of Stones by Dinah Hawken
A Memoir by Frances Samuel
A Mini Mental Status Examination by Glenn Colquhoun
Among Rhododendrons by Diana Bridge
A Mountain Fight by Gerardy
An Account by David Howard
An Aerial View From a Rescue Helicopter, a Shot In the Arse by Nick Ascroft
An Afternoon in March by Geoff Cochrane
Analgesia by Geoff Cochrane
An Ambulance by Geoff Cochrane
And although the... by Jo Randerson
And Never Collide by Linda Connell
Anecdote of the Ghosts by Virginia Fenton
An Elephant On K. Rd by Bob Orr
An Evening Light by Allen Curnow
a new emotion comes by Johanna Aitchison
A New Word by Dinah Hawken
An Explanation of Poetry to My Father by Glenn Colquhoun
Anice’s World by Louise Wrightson
An inept grandmother walks the floor by Elizabeth Smither
An Introduction to Silence by Geoff Cochrane
Another Week-end at the Beach by Allen Curnow
Antiquities by Andrew Coop
An Unclosed Door by Allen Curnow
ANZAC Snap by John Gallas
A pastoral by Jenny Bornholdt
A Patient Carpentry by Emma Lew
A Poem About Castration by P. Michael Campbell
A Poem about Us by Maria Zajkowski
Apostrophe by Matthew Boyd Goldie
Appointed Limits by Stephanie de Montalk
Apricots by Helen Jacobs
April Dusk by Geoff Cochrane
April Showers by Alan Brunton
Arabella’s very good story by Kate Camp
Architecture by G.J. Melling
Arctic Tryst by Julie Leibrich
Arm Robbery by G.J. Melling
arson Avarua by Janet Charman
Ars Poetica by C.K. Stead
Artefact Incognito by Stephanie de Montalk
Arthritis the elephant by Sonja Yelich
As a Matter of Faith by Bernadette Hall
As a way in by Emily Dobson
As Big as a Father by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Ash by Virginia Were
A Shark Comes to Meridian Street by John Dolan
as is the way with adults by Janet Charman
A Small History by Louise White
A Son or a Daughter by Jenny Bornholdt
A South Island Night’s Entertainment by Allen Curnow
A Speckled Riverstone by Paola Bilbrough
A Stone Armadillo by Elizabeth Smither
A Swim with Mum by Ashleigh Young
Asylum Notes by Rae Varcoe
At Home by Johanna Aitchison
At Makara by Chris Orsman
At Onetahuti Pool by Cliff Fell
At the Border by Stephanie de Montalk
At Zennor by Peter Bland
Au Fait by Owen Marshall
Author’s Bluff by Vincent O'Sullivan
Autumnal Words by Josef Hanzlik
a walk on the course by Janet Charman
a walk with lenses by Simon Field
A Way by Dora Malech
A Weeping Maiden by Jenny Bornholdt
A woman I stand behind her chair by Rose Page
A Writer’s Life, or, A Sackful of Spuds by Bernadette Hall
Aya by Paola Bilbrough
Aztec Noon by Geoff Cochrane
Baby by Alison Wong
Bacchante by Bernadette Hall
Backroads by Kate Camp
Ballad for Worser Heberley by Ian Wedde
Barbara Anderson
Barbara and the Restaurant Bill by Elizabeth Smither
Barcelona by PETER BLAND
base clay by Cath Kenneally
because of this thing that will happen on tuesday by John Dickson
Bee in a Bookshop by Nick Ascroft
Before my brother in bandages by Rose Page
Being Wise by Kapka N. Kassabova
Bessie by Jo Randerson
Between the Cough and the Howl by Bill Manhire
Be Well, Be Humble by Bernadette Hall
Beyond the Pale by Geoff Cochrane
Big window by Giorgio Caproni
Bird by Ruth Pettis
Bird in an envelope by Breton Dukes
Birds and Gates by Edmund Cake
Bitter Lemons by Alan Brunton
Black Holes by Geoff Cochrane
Blade & Swing by Bill Manhire
Blanche by CHLOE GORDON
Bleu de Paris by Medbh McGuckian
Blokes can relate to concrete by Stephanie de Montalk
Blown Glass by James Brown
Blue Beret by Joy MacKenzie
Blue Hills 24 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 25 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 26 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 27 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 29 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 30 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 31 by Laurie Duggan
Blue Hills 32 by Laurie Duggan
Blues for the life that was almost mine by Ronny Someck
Blue Shirts, Descending (after Apollinaire) by Jenny Bornholdt
BMW by John Dickson
Bodies of Water & Rabbits by Nick Ascroft
Boeing by Brian Turner
Bonjour La France by Andrew Johnston
Borderline by RAE VARCOE
Boy by Elizabeth Nannestad
Braybrook by Paola Bilbrough
Breakdown by Alison Denham
Brief Visitation by Vincent O'Sullivan
buffalo bill codeine by James Norcliffe
Burning Bright by Stuart McKenzie
Calculations by Kapka Kassabova
Call by Emma Neale
Canada by Sándor Lau
Canopy by Graham Lindsay
Cars Are Not the Only Things Recalled by Their Maker by Kate Camp
Cartoons by C.K. Stead
Casual by Toni McCallum
Catching the Scent by Fiona McLean
Cats by Pat White
Catullus 68 by C.K. Stead
Catullus receives the ONZ by C.K. Stead
Celia’s Dolls by Jenny Powell-Chalmers
Celia’s Sister by Jenny Powell-Chalmers
Ceremony by Miranda Johnson
Chances of Revelation (at Big Bay, August 2001) by Brian Turner
Chapter 2 by Barbara Anderson
Chernobyl: small talk by Emma Lew
Chez Pepys by Betty Bremner
Children’s Toys by James Brown
Chinatown/Montreal by Chris Tse
Chinese Colours by Chris Tse
choosing by Owen Bullock
Christmas Song by Gerardy
Clearances by Alan Riach
Clearing the Air by James Brown
Clicker by David Eggleton
Climbing by Sara Knox
Clomp by Andrew Johnston
Close of Day, Oturehua by Brian Turner
Come December by Frances Samuel
Composition by Paola Bilbrough
Concert by David Howard
Conclusion by Kimberley Rothwell
Confabulations by Geoff Cochrane
Contributory Negligence by Fiona McLean
Conversations With Anna by James Brown
Conversation with a Man by Sarah Dreyer
Convert to You by Stuart McKenzie
Corking the Sharp Objects by Frank Shankly
corner Kingsland and Second by Janet Charman
Cottage by Rhian Gallagher
Countries Lodge inside the Body by Paola Bilbrough
Courting the Butcher’s Daughter by Jenni Quilter
Cowboy Time Blues by Cliff Fell
Creation, etc by C.K. Stead
Creative Nonfiction by Bill Manhire
Cross Country by Laurinda Thomas
Cucumbers and Mad Apples by Michael Harlow
Custard Square by Kerry Hines
Cynics need not attend by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
Dark Days by MICHAEL MINTROM
Dark Rain by Brian Turner
Dark Room by Gregory O'Brien
Daughter by Michele Amas
Day and Night by Ursula Bethell
Daylesford by Paola Bilbrough
Days of 1968 by Tony Beyer
Day Time Bathing by Jeffrey Pettis
Dear Love by Anna Livesey
Death and the Maidens by Betty Bremner
Death of the Author by David Eggleton
Death’s web by ELIZABETH SMITHER
Deconstructing the Holiday on a Wet Day by Tom Weston
Delicious by Bill Manhire
Demonology I by Grant Duncan
Deposits by James McNaughton
Desire by Kapka Kassabova
Diabelli Variations by James Norcliffe
Dialogue by Geoff Cochrane
Diary: September 20-21 by Diana Bridge
Diary Extracts from Scott’s Voyage to Discover the West Pole by James Brown
didymo by Johanna Aitchison
Did You Know That 1175 Hens Live in a Space the Size of This Billboard? by Sarah Dreyer
Dining by Airini Beautrais
Dinner by Alison Wong
Dirt: four poems by Damien Wilkins
Disclosure by Paola Bilbrough
disney fingers by James Norcliffe
Disposable Camera by Geoff Cochrane
Doctor Zhivago by Bill Manhire
domestic ware by Janet Charman
Doors by Ashleigh Young
Do Violeta ao Vermelho by Richard von Sturmer
Drama by Alison Denham
Drama Studies by Geoff Cochrane
Drawing by Mary Macpherson
Dream Car by Donna Tusiata Avia
Dreaming of a Dead Man by Nick Williamson
Dream People by Betty Bremner
Dresses of the World by Karen L. Anderson
Dr Hester’s Instruction by Michael Mintrom
Drifter by PETER BLAND
Drought Year by Dora Malech
Duck by Bernadette Hall
Dunedin: Playing Scrabble with My Aunt by Adrienne Jansen
Early Settler Song by James Brown
Earth by Fiona Farrell
Eating Christmas by Medbh McGuckian
Edinburgh Morning by Alan Riach
Effleurage by Elizabeth Smither
Elected Silence by Geoff Cochrane
Electricity by Anna Horsley
Encore by Anna Livesey
Ending by Rae Varcoe
Ending and Going Home by Jenny Bornholdt
English (Room 202) & 3 other points of view by Bernadette Hall
Entering the Pyramid by Nick Williamson
Epithalamium by John Newton
Ergot by John Dolan
Espy by Anna Livesey
Etching by Cilla McQueen
Eternity by Jennifer Compton
Eva by Paola Bilbrough
Evanescence by Kerry Popplewell
Evasion Theory by Harry Ricketts
Evening Poem by Bill Manhire
Everyone Picks Their Nose But Nobody Talks About It by Jo Randerson
Everything is Everywhere, Nearly Everyone Says by P. Michael Campbell
everything is round & we see that even in company the mind has nowhere to fall but back on itself by Joan Fleming
Ex by Craig Sherborne
Exact Words by Marg Ranger
Exchange by Kate Camp
Exchange Student by Kerry Hines
Exercise by Simon Lewis
Exile by John Saxby
Exploded View by Tony Beyer
Exposure by Emma Neale
Exquisitely Sensible by Ian Pople
Fairfield Bridge by Bob Orr
Fairy Tale by Louise Wrightson
Falls by Gregory O'Brien
Familial by Gregory O'Brien
Familial Duties by Hezekiah O’Malley
Family Management by James Brown
Family Photograph by Jenny Bornholdt
Farewell To My “Steed.” by Trooper Bluegum
Fast by Emma Lew
Father by Michelle Baker
Fault by Bill Manhire
Faux Amis by Andrew Johnston
Fa’afetai fai mea ai by Tusiata Avia
Fear Not by Kate Camp
Feeding Out by Pat White
Feeding the Ducks by James Brown
Fifteen Adventures in the World of People by Amy Howden-Chapman
Film Studies by Dan Horne
Find the by Edmund Cake
Fireside Games by G.J. Melling
First Sailing by Rhian Gallagher
Five Short Irritation Poems (Long Distance) by Emily Perkins
Fixing the leak... by Chris Pigott
Fled is that music by CHRIS PRICE
Flirting with the Husband of Death by Kimberley Rothwell
Floating by Dinah Hawken
Flora and Fauna by Dora Malech
Flu by Jane Gardner
Fog by Kapka N. Kassabova
following distance by Alice Miller
Fool Heart by Andrew Johnston
For Lauris Edmond by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
For various movie directors by Ken Bolton
For Victor Meertens by Gregory O'Brien
Four American Poems by Andrew Johnston
Four Things I Wanted to Say to You by Linda Connell
France by Jenny Bornholdt
Friday by Sándor Lau
Frolic by Bill Manhire
From a Garden in the Antipodes by Evelyn Hayes
From a ha-ha to a cemetery by Elizabeth Smither
From Death by James Brown
From Flinders, South Australia, Drifts Another Scent of Distance by Alan Riach
from “Alibí” by Teresa Arijón
from “Epoch of the Son” by Roberto Carifi
from “Opera” by Ciaran Carson
from “Tales” by Koenraad Kuiper
Fruit by Ingrid Horrocks
Funeral Song by Sarah Dreyer
Garavan by Owen Marshall
Gates by Geoff Cochrane
Genealogy by Craig Sherborne
Gennaio, Febbraio, Marzo by Emily Perkins
German Word Cards by Chloe Lane
Getting Away From It by Alastair Agnew
Ginkgo by Virginia Were
Girl on a bicycle by ELIZABETH SMITHER
Glass Sonnet by Bernadette Hall
Glaze by Les A. Murray
Gnats by John Dolan
God What’s It to You by Alan Brunton
God’s brain and the souls of birds by Clare Moleta
Go Easy, Sweetheart by Bernadette Hall
Going Away Poem for Chris Larsen by Alan Riach
Going Bush Blues by Cliff Fell
Going on by Jenny Bornholdt
Golgotha by James McNaughton
Goodbye or How to leave the first-day-of-spring party with less than you came with by Joan Fleming
Go Skating by Ashleigh Young
Grace by Paola Bilbrough
Grace to the Goodsyard by Emma Lew
Green by Caroline Barnes
Groynes, St Clair Beach by Kay McKenzie Cooke
Guilty Spaces by James Brown
half-way by Pippin Barr
Hamilton International Airport by Kate Camp
Hand-Made House by Rae Varcoe
Herb by Grant Duncan
Here and There by Dora Malech
Here Come the Drum Majorettes! by James Fenton
Here’s Water by Jenny Bornholdt
Hermione, 1881 by Sara Knox
He Waiata o Hemi by James K. Baxter
Hills by DINAH HAWKEN
hillside by James Norcliffe
Hill Song by Gerardy
Hirohito by Bill Manhire
Hiruharama by Michelle Baker
His Warmth As Always by Stephanie de Montalk
Hohner by Amy Brown
Hokusai on the Shore by Fay Zwicky
Holidays at my father’s by Angela Andrews
Home Fires by Kirsten McDougall
Home Town by Rhian Gallagher
Honest, Laertes... by Koenraad Kuiper
Honeymoon Poem by Chris Pigott
horn-bill song by Saut Situmorang
Hotel by Kate Camp
Hotel Turangawaewae by Andrew Johnston
Hour after Hour by Brian Turner
House and Garden by Andrew Johnston
How Bones Break by Sefton Darby
How he falls by Owen Bullock
How to Draw Horses (after Sam Savitt) by Mary-Jane Duffy
How to Eat Cape Gooseberries by Lynn Davidson
how to fix a radio by SONJA YELICH
How to live by the sea by Lynn Davidson
How to Write a Gun by Grayson Cooke
Hunger by Lynn Davidson
Hydroponics by Elena Knox
I arrive again by Tusiata Avia
I do not know by James Brown
If I Stepped Outside, in May ‘93 by Kendrick Smithyman
If I Thought by Tom Weston
Illness and Relief by Geoff Cochrane
Illuminated Window by Chris Price
Illyrian Tale by Kai Jensen
Immediately after— by Elizabeth Nannestad
In Albert Park by Peter Bland
In a Library by Geoff Cochrane
inanimation by Catherine Vidler-Smith
In Bed with Muhammad Ali by Lloyd Jones
incognito, my love by Jessica Le Bas
Incompetent Lips by David Geary
Indelible by Emma Neale
Inflictions by MIRANDA JOHNSON
Inland by Mary Macpherson
in part by Alice Miller
In Point of Fact by James Brown
Inquisitions by Geoff Cochrane
iNSOMNiA by Geoff Cochrane
Insomnia is a window of opportunity by Marg Ranger
In Spring by Victoria Broome
Instructing the Newly-Weds by Jenny Bornholdt
in Tallboy by Sonja Yelich
interface by Suzanne Chapman
In the cemetery by Andrew Johnston
In the Country by Harry Kenidjack
in the letter by James Norcliffe
In the Nature Section by Anna Livesey
In the Option of Daylight by Tom Weston
In the Picture: Donatello and Brunelleschi by Michael Harlow
In Transit by TIM WILSON
Investigations at the Public Baths by Allen Curnow
In Your Absence by Kate Camp
I Once Lived By Myself in a Tree-house by Saradha Koirala
Irene and Gaye by David Geary
I Seem to Have Forgotten My Memory by RAE VARCOE
is it good to hum, river? by SONJA YELICH
Island by Tom Weston
Island Bay by Catherine Vidler-Smith
Itinerancy by Paola Bilbrough
It’s Spring by Emma Neale
Ixat by Denis Welch
Jamaica farewell by Janet Charman
Jane Finds Her Music by Fleur Wickes
Janet Frame’s House by C.K. Stead
Johnny Crowning by Anna Jackson
July by Emily Perkins
Kapiti Island by Kate Duignan
Karitane Postcards by Rob Allan
KG2097 by Louise Wrightson
Kim Il Sung / Mausoleum (1994) by Tony Lee
Kissing the sky by James Norcliffe
Kissing You by Johanna Aitchison
Kitchen, Morning by Jane Gardner
ladies mile by Michele Leggott
Lapwing by Andrew Johnston
Large Heart Fatal by Kate Camp
Last Night by Water by DINAH HAWKEN
La Strada by Elizabeth Nannestad
Late Mughal tomb by Diana Bridge
Leaving the Pow Camp on the East German Coast by Victoria Broome
Leda at the Billabong by Bernadette Hall
Le Nom by Jenny Bornholdt
Leonard Meteor Shower by James McNaughton
Les Baillessats by Andrew Johnston
Let Me Explain by Dora Malech
Letter from Awaroa by Louise White
Letter to Lorine by Leicester Kyle
Letter To My Mother by Michelle Baker
Let’s Clarify About the Trees by John Dolan
Let’s Go Safe by Louise White
Let’s Look at Neurons by Anna Livesey
Lex Talionis by Sarah Day
Liar by Dora Malech
Life Sentence by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
Lightworks by Ingrid Horrocks
Limbs of a Sleeper by Paola Bilbrough
Lines by James McNaughton
Little Bits of Harry by Geoff Cochrane
Liver by HINEMOANA BAKER
Logic by John Dolan
London Winter by Andrew Johnston
Long Acre Blues by Cliff Fell
Long Coastline by Dinah Hawken
Long Day’s Journey by Jennifer Compton
Looking at Box Constructions by Joseph Cornell by Michael Mintrom
Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water by Allen Curnow
Lost Enclosure by Joy MacKenzie
Lost Weekend by John Newton
Love and Sadness by Annora Gollop
Love Etc by C.K. Stead
Love is a Kind of Seeing by Annora Gollop
Lullaby by Jenny Bornholdt
Lunch Hour by Louise Wrightson
Lunch Taker by ASHLEIGH YOUNG
Lychee by CHLOE GORDON
Magpies & Other Outlaws by Joy Mackenzie
Makara by Joan Fleming
Makara by Andrew Loughnan
Make Sure by Jenny Bornholdt
Manawatu by Craig Cliff
Mansworn by James Brown
Many Artists by Simon Lewis
Map Reference by James Brown
Marton by David Geary
May-July 1993 by Emma Neale
Me and Spike Lee and Me by Patrick John Rata
Medical by Jenny Bornholdt
Membrane by Paola Bilbrough
Memorial by Josef Hanzlik
Memorial Park by Harold Jones
Mental Events by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Mephisto by Lavinia Greenlaw
Mercury Rising by Grant Duncan
Metamorphosis by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Mexican Couple by Chris Price
Michelangelo: St Matthew—Unfinished by Louise White
Mid-Sentence, So to Speak by Vincent O'Sullivan
Mid-Winter Orkney by K.O. Arvidson
Milestones by Geoff Cochrane
Mirror Poem by Josef Hanzlik
Misconception by Lynn Davidson
Mix by Chris Price
Modern Times (after Atget) by Kerry Hines
Modes by Geoff Cochrane
Module Five: by John Dolan
Monte Cassino by Brian Turner
Moonlight by Bill Manhire
Moonshine on Leith by Nick Ascroft
Morning Herald by Simon Lewis
Mother tongue by MIRANDA JOHNSON
Motorway by Patrick Evans
Mountain top by Edmund Cake
Mr Blythe at Home and Abroad by Geoff Cochrane
Mr Maui among the Post-modernists by Peter Bland
Mr Maui Loses the Plot by Peter Bland
Mr Maui Returns to the Death Goddess by Peter Bland
Mr Maui Sees God in a Summer Garden by Peter Bland
Mum by Jane Gardner
Music withholding its theme by ELIZABETH SMITHER
Musings in Maoriland by Thomas Bracken
My Dead Surround Me by Rae Varcoe
My Dog by Tusiata Avia
My Elderly Father Watches Television by Geoff Cochrane
My Father’s Flowers by P. Michael Campbell
My father’s speakers by Edmund Cake
My Favourite by Nick Ascroft
My Flatmate by James Brown
My Friend the Famous Minimalist by Vincent O'Sullivan
My Kingdom for the Pretty Picture by Dora Malech
My life when I had a life: I wake up. by Anna Jackson
My Mother Looking at Stars by Elizabeth Smither
My One-Legged Grandmother (or: A Failure of Imagination) by Jenny Bornholdt
My Sister, My Little Cricket by Jenny Bornholdt
My Sunshine by Bill Manhire
My White Shirt by Johanna Aitchison
Names for Girls without Mothers by Sally Ann McIntyre
Necklace of Stones by DINAH HAWKEN
Neighbours by Karen L. Anderson
Never a Ripple by Fiona McLean
Newlands by Maria Zajkowski
New Zealand Bird Songs by Eileen Duggan
Nextdoor Neighbour Please Come In by Betty Bremner
Niagara Falls by Thomas Chambers, 19th century American, The Wadsworth Atheneum by Elizabeth Smither
Nice Morning for It, Adam by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
Nightfall by Lynn Davidson
Nightflight by Albert Wendt
Night Life by Jenny Bornholdt
no one by Sudesh Mishra
Not as Strangers Do with Hat in Hand by Kendrick Smithyman
Notes From the Elastic Memory by Kimberley Rothwell
Notes from ‘A Natural Setting on the Far Side of the World’ by C.K. Stead
November Notes by Geoff Cochrane
Now by Mary Macpherson
Nuptials by Bill Manhire
Nursery by Anna Smaill
Oasis by James McNaughton
Odd Man Out by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Ode to Virgil Exner by Murray Edmond
Of Christmas and Storms by Alison Denham
Of Poets by Twenty Two
Okieville by P. Michael Campbell
Old Car by Ashleigh Young
Oma and Opa by Elizabeth Nannestad
One by Hinemoana Baker
One Among Many by Gregory O'Brien
one hand for you, one hand for the boat by Janet Charman
One Missed Call by Hinemoana Baker
One night... by Chris Pigott
On Hearing of Dominic’s Birth by Bernadette Hall
On making people amputees by Kate Camp
On the way to the Jewish Museum Berlin by Nigel Cox
Ophelia by Cliff Fell
Opoutere by Bill Manhire
Opportunity by Geoff Cochrane
Ornamental Cherries by John Saxby
Orpheus at the Intersection by Mary Cresswell
our lost intimacy with horses by Marty Smith
Outback by James Brown
Outings by Jenny Bornholdt
Over 40 by Harold Jones
Owning the Language by Frank Shankly
O Wonderful by ANNA SMAILL
P.S. Blues about the real life by Ronny Someck
Panda Postcards To A Businessman In New York by Bernadette Hall
Paper Road by Graham Lindsay
Parable of the Empty Tomb by Eric Pankey
Paris to Pam Brown by Ken Bolton
Past and Present by Gerardy
Pasternak’s Angel by Bob Orr
Pastiche by Geoff Cochrane
Pastoral by Jeffrey Pettis
Pastorale by Andrew Johnston
Pa’u-stina by TUSIATA AVIA
Pebbles by Brian Turner
Pendulum Swing by Alan Brunton
Penguins by Bernadette Hall
Peninsula by Geoff Cochrane
Pensée by Betty Bremner
Performance by Harvey Benge
Perrito by Hamish Dewe
Pet by Amy Brown
Pet Food by David Beach
Phenomena by Geoff Cochrane
Piano by Alison Denham
Pictures of the floating world by Koenraad Kuiper
Pile Diary by Geoff Cochrane
Places, Places by Dora Malech
Plaint by Geoff Cochrane
Playground by Alison Wong
Please, pay attention by Jenny Bornholdt
Plot 608, The Old Balclutha Cemetery by Rae Varcoe
Poem by Anna Smaill
Poem Ending ‘A Gray in Which Some Smoke Stands’ by Ken Bolton
Poem For Dorothy by Linda Connell
Poem in Four Parts by Caroline Foote
Poem to the Reader by Sharon Olds
Poem ‘A’ by Nicola Paniccia
Poise by Stephanie de Montalk
Poland by Jenny Bornholdt
Polygon Wood by Geoff Cochrane
Postcard by Geoff Cochrane
Postcard to Ross Stevens by Brian Turner
Pot-Shot, at Three by Adrienne Jansen
Praising the Cook by Jenny Bornholdt
Preface [to ‘Musings in Maoriland’] by George Grey
Presupposition by Matthew Goldie
Prey by Emma Lew
Primavera by Vincent O'Sullivan
Private Eyes by Kendrick Smithyman
Proposal by Tim Upperton
Punk girl sketching the Parthenon frieze by Elizabeth Smither
Pursuit by Emma Lew
Quebec by Bill Manhire
Question Regarding a Copper Earring by Charlotte Simmonds
Railway Jokes by Kevin Ireland
Ramose by Elizabeth Nannestad
Rant for Mickey Joe by Murray Edmond
Raurimu Spiral by Jenny Bornholdt
Reading a collection of poems marked by a previous reader by Elizabeth Smither
Really & Truly by Bernadette Hall
Red-letter Day by Graham Lindsay
Red Light by Leicester Kyle
Regionalism: three poems by Gregory O'Brien
Reinvention #9 by Greg Dally
re Peter Black by Ken Bolton
Replica by Mary Macpherson
Residue by Paola Bilbrough
Rest by Gerardy
Restaurant Verses by Harold Marshall
Resting by Geoff Cochrane
reverse engineer a poem for sport (exploded sestina) by Tze Ming Mok
Revisionism by Andrew Johnston
Robins by Andrew Johnston
Rock Picking: Building Cairns by John Kinsella
Room by Kate Camp
Rooster by Elizabeth Nannestad
Round the Block by Jane Gardner
Rue Grehan, Akaroa by David Howard
Russell Sprouts by Ashleigh Young
Russian Caravan Tea by KATE CAMP
Sacred Heart by Andrew Johnston
Safe by John Dolan
Sailors by Rachel Bush
Saint Celia by Jenny Powell-Chalmers
Same Name? No Relation by Annora Gollop
Sang the Mother, Sang Her Daughter by Jenny Bornholdt
Santa Caterina, Heart of the S’nai by Rae Varcoe
Sastrugi by Bernadette Hall
Saturday Afternoon by Jenny Bornholdt
Saudade by Andrew Johnston
Screen Saver by Bill Manhire
Season by Vincent O'Sullivan
Secular Thoughts by Vincent O'Sullivan
Seeing Susan: the performance of meeting by Kate De Goldi
Seeing the Red Hills again by Kerry Popplewell
Self-portrait 4 by David Beach
Self Portrait With Family Tree by Dora Malech
Self Timer by Brent Kininmont
Sentence by John Saxby
September in The South by Gerardy
series of dramas by Vana Manasiadis
setting the tree on fire by James Norcliffe
Settlement by Geoff Cochrane
Seven Hectic Takes by Geoff Cochrane
Seven Parts to the Story by Frances Samuel
Seven Songs from Sisyphus 2000® by Chris Else
Sex Dream by Lucy Orbell
Sharp Poem by Virginia Were
Sheep by Fiona Farrell
She glaring into the camera by Rose Page
Sheriff Devil 1 by David Beach
Sheriff Devil 2 by David Beach
She Takes His Hand by Kimberley Rothwell
She was bleeding... by Chris Pigott
She’s watching us by Edoardo Sanguineti
Shine by Geoff Cochrane
Short Poems About Fucking by James Brown
Shy Away from It by Nick Ascroft
Silent Letter by David Geary
Silk by Sarah Weir
Silver Mirror with Cupids by Elizabeth Smither
Sinking Song by Emma Lew
Six measures of allegiance by Jo Thorpe
Six Thinkers by Chris Price
Six weeks by KATE CAMP
sleep cicak by Saut Situmorang
Sleeper by John Dickson
Sleepers by Kate Camp
Sleeping Arrangements by Damien Wilkins
Sleeping on a Waterbed by Elizabeth Smither
Small Obligations by James Brown
Small Talk by Alison Wong
Smoking with Carol by Elizabeth Smither
Snakes by Geoff Cochrane
Snap by Bernadette Hall
Snapshot by James Brown
Snow White by JO AITCHISON
So Did I by Robin Fry
Sol by ANDREW JOHNSTON
Some Legends of the Civil War by K.O. Arvidson
Sometimes I Am Filled with a Sadness Beyond Reason by Annora Gollop
Song of the Nomad by PETER BLAND
Song with a Chorus by Bill Manhire
Sonnet by Angela Andrews
Son surviving a car crash by Elizabeth Smither
So Rare No Others by Phyllis Janowitz
Sorry, I’m a Stranger Here Myself... by Peter Bland
Soundings by PANSY DUNCAN
Southerners by Brian Turner
South Seas Analecta by Anna Livesey
Spare Parts for Celia by Jenny Powell-Chalmers
Spindrift Sunday by Geoff Cochrane
Splash Planet by Alison Wong
Spring by Miranda Johnson
Standing by Michele Amas
Stars by Mary Macpherson
Stars by Elizabeth Smither
Starting over in autumn by Fay Zwicky
Staying Power by G.J. Melling
Stein on Venus by Edwin Morgan
Still Life by Jocelind (Jane) Dunford
Stones of the Heart by Simon Lewis
Stroke by C.K. Stead
Style and Completeness by Stephanie de Montalk
Suit by James McNaughton
Summer Alarm by Geoff Cochrane
Summer Under Rafters-the Humility Variations by Michael Mintrom
Sunday, Across The Tasman by August Kleinzahler
Sunday Visit by Brian Turner
Sunset by Dinah Hawken
Survival of the Startled by James McNaughton
Survival Strategies of the Young by Virginia Fenton
Swan Song by CHRIS PRICE
sweetness blows through you by Johanna Aitchison
Swinging London by KATE CAMP
Take Me To the Vault by Nick Ascroft
Taking Leave by Paola Bilbrough
talking to a brick wall by Sonja Yelich
Taylors Mistake by Graham Lindsay
Team Effort by Kai Jensen
Te Aro 15 by David Beach
Te Aro 2 by David Beach
Te Aro 20 by David Beach
Te Aro 8 by David Beach
Ten Steps to the Sea by Allen Curnow
Tepee by Paola Bilbrough
Terms of Art by Bill Sewell
Terrain Ignorant Tourist Beastie by Nick Ascroft
testimony of the rack by James Norcliffe
That girl Flora by CHLOE GORDON
That silence we fell into by Alan Riach
That Winter with Celeste by Geoff Cochrane
The Adoration of the Kings by Paul Durcan
The Adventures of Hillary by Bill Manhire
The Age Of Chivalry by Twenty Two
The Air Castle by Kate Camp
The Amputee by ANNA SMAILL
The Apartment by PANSY DUNCAN
the apple on my writing desk by John Dickson
The Architecture of Lambs’ Coats by Mary Knox
The Arrival of Wedding Guests by Jenny Bornholdt
the assassination of Marion du Fresne by James Norcliffe
The Assumption of Mr Dickson into the Order of Domestic Cats by John Dickson
The August Girl by Michele Leggott
The Back of Me by Nick Ascroft
The Badder & The Better by Nick Ascroft
The Balance by Alan Riach
The Basilica by Rhian Gallagher
The Body Speaks by Marg Ranger
The Book of Sadness by James Brown
The bottle of oil I was late sending John by IAN WEDDE
The butterfly girl by Elizabeth Smither
The Café by Martha Morseth
The Cancer Cells Sum Up by Rae Varcoe
The Carpe Diem Poem by Bill Manhire
The Catastrophist of Newtown by Julie Hill
The Child in the Gardens: Winter by Vincent O'Sullivan
The China Theory of Life by Jenny Bornholdt
The Clover Seed Hex by Emma Lew
The Coffee Table by Jessica Le Bas
The Concept Of Mind by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The Conquering Pilgrimage by Gerardy
The Contemplative Librarians of Iowa by Michael Mintrom
The Continuance by Eric Pankey
The Cowboy Dog [extract] by Nigel Cox
the day that ernie wrote by Julie Leibrich
The Death Words by Chris Price
The details of her nightmares by Hinemoana Baker
The Detective by Geoff Cochrane
The Dolls Leave Home by Karen L. Anderson
The Embarrassing Party by Bill Manhire
The Fast-Food Restaurant by Jane Gardner
The Field by Kapka Kassabova
The Forger by Geoff Cochrane
The fossils by Hinemoana Baker
The Fourth Love Painting by Jenny Bornholdt
The Full Moon, a Celebration by Victoria Broome
The Geopolitical Barbarian Situation by Tom Weston
The Gesture by Dinah Hawken
The Ghost of Blueskin Sound by Lucinda Birch
The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls by Bernadette Hall
The Good Old Kiwi Bloke by Airini Beautrais
The happiness of poets: sto ste sto ste by ANNA JACKSON
The harbour is a whipping boy and the weird... by Dinah Hawken
The harbour is disappearing. It is giving up... by Dinah Hawken
The harbour is hallucinating. It is rising... by Dinah Hawken
The Hitch by James Brown
The Hoarder by Hezekiah O’Malley
The Holly & the Ivy by Nick Ascroft
The Hospital Cruise by Kerry Hines
The Induna of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Isichei
The Inhabited Initial by Fiona Farrell
The Insomnia Notebook, 4 am by Michael Harlow
The Insurance Man by James McNaughton
The Issue of Water by Dinah Hawken
the kids are smoking by James Norcliffe
The Kindest Thing by Allen Curnow
The Kiss by Elizabeth Nannestad
The Lark Quartet by Elizabeth Smither
The Last Postcard by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Little Lantern by Victoria Broome
The Loved One by Jenny Bornholdt
The Man Dean Went to Photograph by Jenny Bornholdt
The Man in the Aviator Shades by Geoff Cochrane
The man who was once a marine biologist by Jenni Quilter
The Man Who Went the Other Way Down The Golden Road to Samarkand by John Gallas
The Maori Chess Champion by Harold Jones
The Map by Roger McGough
The Maritime Cook by Geoff Cochrane
The mass by Chris Pigott
The Meaningful Poem by Hilary Campbell
The Men Of Maoriland by Gerardy
The Moon is Almost Full by Victoria Broome
The Mule by Chris Pigott
The Mule by Chris Pigott
The News by Bill Manhire
The Ocean Baths by Les A. Murray
The Old Neighbourhood by Geoff Cochrane
The other side of a river by Glenn Colquhoun
The Ox Climbed a Fir Tree by Jenny Bornholdt
The pathology museum by Angela Andrews
The Pig in the Hedge by Nick Ascroft
The Poet Follows the Janet Frame Heritage Trail with His Beloved and Her Daughter by Rob Allan
The Ponies by Bernadette Hall
The Psychology Clinic by Kerry Hines
The Purple House, From Above by Michael Mintrom
The Question of Gulls by Dinah Hawken
the rain that falls, here comes by Johanna Aitchison
There is a girl running beside a jasmine hedge by Rose Page
There is chaos on the roads... by Geoff Cochrane
The Revenge of Fu Manchu by Tony Lee
The Right Thing by C.K. Stead
The Rise and Progress of New Zealand by Robert Stout
The Rumour of Hope by Eric Pankey
The Run Off by Gregory O'Brien
The Sailor Wants a Friend by Rachel Bush
The same day a... by Jenny Bornholdt
The Seamstress by Caroline Barnes
The Second Law (of Thermodynamics) by James Brown
These Days by Frances Samuel
The servants’ quarters in Queen Mary’s dolls house by Elizabeth Smither
The Seventies by Airini Beautrais
the shadow of a... by Joanna Margaret Paul
The Singer by Andrew Johnston
The Sloth by Elizabeth Smither
The Small Garden by Michael Mintrom
The Small Top by Bill Manhire
The spine gives up its saddest stories by Kate Camp
The Spirit of the Realm of Flowers by Gregory O'Brien
The Spirit of the Staircase by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Spot by Brent Kininmont
The Strenuous Life by Bernadette Hall
The Swimmer Nitzi Phillips, d. 1989, Kibbutz Ga’lon by Brent Kininmont
The Tale of Dark Louise by Emma Lew
The Ten Most Beautiful Women in the World by Gregory O'Brien
The Tethering of Trees by Dinah Hawken
The Theology of Never Finishing What You by Nick Ascroft
The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations by Murray Edmond
The Tornado by Kai Jensen
The True Dark Town by Emma Lew
The Tudor Style by Elizabeth Smither
The Tyre Shop by Bob Orr
The Universe by C.K. Stead
The Unnatural Poem by Hilary Campbell
The Unprepared Mind by Tom Weston
The Unsuccessful by James Brown
The Usual by Craig Sherborne
The Violinist in Spring by ANNA SMAILL
The Virgin on the Hill by Maria Zajkowski
The Waiting Place by Trish Harris
The wallet by Diana Bridge
The watch by KATE CAMP
The Wedding Call by Stephen Liddle
The Window Cleaner’s Dream by Anna Smaill
The Workshop by Bill Manhire
They Are Shrinking by Stephanie de Montalk
The Year of Adverbs by Elizabeth Smither
The Year of the Mountain by James Brown
The Young Wife by Miranda Johnson
They were right to tell us: don’t push on beyond... by Cesare Viviani
Thin Green Beans by Elizabeth Smither
Things Under Lights by Sally Ann McIntyre
Thinking of Germany, in the night... by Cherry Wilder
Thirst by Geoff Cochrane
This ad from the butcher... by Chris Pigott
Thomas by Annora Gollop
Thoughts on Rwanda during a Commercial Break by Lloyd Jones
Three days and two nights in Woodhill Forest by Virginia Were
Thumbs Up by G.J. Melling
Tibet by Jeffrey Pettis
Tie by Graham Lindsay
Till Someone Loses an Eye by James McNaughton
Tilt by Laurie Duggan
Time and Place by Ursula Bethell
Tired and Emotional by Andrew Johnston
To Disappear by Tom Weston
To Finn, before he walks by Elizabeth Smither
To Have Feet and Not Have Walked on Them by Gregory O'Brien
To Mai, a month after her death by ELIZABETH SMITHER
To Mrs Bold from Little Gollop by Annora Gollop
To My Father by Toni McCallum
To My Husband by Sharon Olds
To my mother’s surgeon by Hinemoana Baker
Tornado by Jenny Bornholdt
To Start With by John Dickson
To tell myself seven stories about me and you by Kate Camp
To the Roughhouse by Ken Edlin
To the Tadpoles by Brent Kininmont
Towards a New Poetics of Motor City by Michael Mintrom
Transit of Venus by Willard Douglas
Travel Notes (Midland Park) by Mary Cresswell
Treasure Pony by Eleanor Catton
Tres Pechugas by Paola Bilbrough
Triangles by Emma Neale
Trio by Jane Gardner
Tripper by Maria Zajkowski
Turned Earth, the Stitches in My Arm by Nick Ascroft
Turning Brown and Torn in Two by James Brown
Turning Twenty by Ashleigh Young
Twice Shy by Leicester Kyle
Two Instamatic Poems by Edwin Morgan
Two sonnets by Anne Kennedy
Two Trees by Mary Macpherson
Two Wing Circus by Murray Edmond
Two Women by Olwyn Stewart
Umbilicus Jump by Michele Leggott
Um Velho Baiano by Richard von Sturmer
Under Erebus by Bernadette Hall
Under Neruda by Sudesh Mishra
Undoing a formal bouquet by ELIZABETH SMITHER
Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars by Kate Camp
Unfinished love theorem by Kate Camp
Universal Pictures by Chris Price
Untitled poem by Nick Williamson by Nick Williamson
Unusual Film Idea by Bill Manhire
Urging Her Into the Boat by Jenny Bornholdt
Usual Rosettes by Emma Lew
Variations by P. Michael Campbell
Velvet by Bill Manhire
Verse of the Shallow Sea by Stephanie de Montalk
View from a Bench-Putney by Peter Bland
Villanelle by Jenny Bornholdt
virtual beach by SONJA YELICH
Visitations by Ashleigh Young
Visitors by Lynn Davidson
Visitors by Andrew Johnston
Vocal by Tina Regtien
Voice by Ken Bolton
Voyages by PETER BLAND
Waiting for Buller (after Bill Hammond) by Mary-Jane Duffy
wake by Graham Lindsay
Waking by Geoff Cochrane
Waking the Birds by Jenny Bornholdt
Wall, Paper, Artist by Gregory O'Brien
Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46 by August Kleinzahler
Water of the sweet life by Kate Camp
Weather by Airini Beautrais
We Listen for You on the Radio by Virginia Were
Well? said The Man by Jo Randerson
Wellington 1955 by Peter Bland
West by Laurie Duggan
Westerns, Musicals & Costume Dramas by Willard Douglas
What Boys Who Sleep Near Airports Know by Brent Kininmont
What I Remember About Butterfly Creek by Airini Beautrais
What it takes by Brigit Laidler
What the destination has to offer by Hinemoana Baker
What They Saw by Jocelyn 'tui' Wilson
What to Do While Waiting in Casualty by Rae Varcoe
When I, Chick, Was Growing Up by Jenny Bornholdt
When I Think of Sidi Rezegh: New Year ‘97 by Pat White
When I Was Fat & You Were Ugly by Nick Ascroft
When the Neighbourhood Goes to Seed by Lloyd Jones
when you meet—october 88 by Sonja Yelich
When you open the door on Fat Boy and... by Jo Randerson
Whereby I Compare You to a Cow & Try to Dig My Way Out by Nick Ascroft
Where is Gorbio? by Jenny Bornholdt
wherever i am, where are you? by Johanna Aitchison
Whisky for Oscar by Andrew Johnston
White Heron as it is Spelled by Tom Weston
White Saris by Angela Andrews
Why Biographers Fudge It by Vincent O'Sullivan
Why Our Washing Machine Broke by Jo Randerson
Wild dogs under my skirt by Tusiata Avia
Wildlife at Home by Jenny Bornholdt
Willow by Jenny Bornholdt
Winding Up Here by Janet Charman
Wine Dynasty; Metal Embers; Black Widow by Emma Neale
Winter 1995 by Stephen Liddle
Winter at the Summer Palace by Paola Bilbrough
Wintering Suburbia by Richard Reeve
Winter Love by Josef Hanzlik
Winter Soundtrack by James McNaughton
With Love from Your Friend Emily by Maria Zajkowski
without seasons by James Norcliffe
Woburn Sonnets by Wilf Welburn
Woolshed Blues by Cliff Fell
Work Station by James Brown
Writing Borges by Simon Lewis
xia yu by Tze Ming Mok
Yippee! by James Norcliffe
You by Adrienne Jansen
You Live Here by James Brown
Your Body is Blank by Paola Bilbrough
Your Diagnosis is Leukaemia by Rae Varcoe
You’re Telling Me by Emma Neale
Zoo after Zoo by Salla Tykkä, City Gallery Wellington by Saradha Koirala
Zorba the Palestinian by James McNaughton
Z’habitants by ANDREW JOHNSTON
‘Way off among the cars...’ by Cath Kenneally
‘You are a bird in a storm, let it storm’ by Victoria Broome

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