Big Smoke New Zealand Poems 1960–1975

by Brunton, Alan; Leggott, Michele

• ISBN13: 9781869402303
• ISBN10: 1869402308
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Auckland University Press

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	x
List of Illustrations	xi
Introduction
1960-69: Restoring the Commune	1	(18)
Alan Brunton
Poetics of the Impossible	19	(18)
Murray Edmond
BIG SMOKE
Waikato Te Awa	37	(1)
Rangi T. Harrison
Waikato is the River	38	(2)
Kitty Leach
No Ordinary Sun	40	(1)
Hone Tuwhare
Year 1959	41	(1)
K.B.
Lizard	42	(1)
Mark Young
`A thing fled from daylight...'	43	(2)
Hilaire Kirkland
`Comet: insane spawn of a sick sun...'	44	(1)
`Men say: ``The moon...'	44	(1)
Knowledge and Vision	45	(2)
John Esam
A Warrior's Lament	47	(2)
Kuki Kaa
A Soldier's Letter Home	48	(1)
Warrior Taunts Warrior	48	(1)
Threnody	49	(2)
W.S. Broughton
Night Through the Orange Window	51	(5)
David Mitchell
`D.', Love Song in 32 Bars	56	(1)
A Visitor	57	(2)
Steve Waterman
Motley Sings	59	(1)
Hilaire Kirkland
Weetbix and Butter and Honey	59	(1)
way of life	60	(3)
Jim Langabeer
The Road to Takapuna	63	(2)
Janet Frame
Lines on Leaving the Last Reservation	65	(2)
Peter Bland
Kennedy's Finger	67	(1)
Kathinka Nordal Stene
In My Father's House	68	(3)
Martyn Sanderson
Church-Goer	69	(1)
To Become	70	(1)
Meeting	70	(1)
Towards a Climax	70	(1)
The Raw Men: For the Maori Battalion	71	(2)
Rowley Habib
The Senator Had Plans	73	(1)
Janet Frame
Vietnam	74	(2)
Anon.
You Summer, Singing Come	76	(3)
Vanya Lowry
Landscape With Guitars	77	(1)
Fragment	77	(2)
After Han-Shan	79	(1)
Mark Young
Clotho. Lachesis. Atropos	79	(1)
Hilaire Kirkland
`the flowers that you gave, my love...'	80	(2)
Jennifer Levy
`It was hot that day...'	81	(1)
Fragment	82	(2)
Vanya Lowry
`you're a sexo...'	84	(1)
Jim Nepia
`pardon me lady (oh you...'	84	(1)
Pukeroa	85	(1)
Ngahuia Gordon
Who is testing today?	86	(1)
Hone Tuwhare
Ngawhatu	87	(2)
Sam Hunt
About About	89	(3)
Dennis List
Krapkin	89	(2)
Um	91	(1)
The Clown at the Death of His Wife	92	(1)
Bill Manhire
For President Johnson on the Shores of America	92	(1)
`An Observation...'	93	(1)
Martyn Sanderson
Mother and Sons	93	(1)
Rowley Habib
Journey	94	(2)
Hilaire Kirkland
Destination	95	(1)
Arrival	95	(1)
The Gulls	96	(2)
Sam Hunt
Return in Spring	96	(1)
A Song About Her	97	(1)
Turtle Time	98	(3)
Russell Haley
Earth Meditations: 2, sections (i) - (xii)	101	(8)
Charles Doyle
Maori Surveyor: His Field Notes	109	(9)
Warren Dibble
Time Signal	118	(2)
Mark Young
Comming Out	119	(1)
My Hands Had Forgotten Lorca	119	(1)
Note d'un Poete	120	(3)
Alan Brunton
`For Too Long in This Country...'	121	(2)
Za'oud Through the Mountains	123	(2)
Hamilton Fyfe-Simpson
Franklin in the Valley of Foreboding	125	(1)
Dennis List
The Camels are Coming	125	(1)
Solomon Rhatigan and the I Ching	126	(3)
Russell Haley
Revolutionary Poem 5	129	(1)
Murray Edmond
Please Don't Shoot the Piano Player	130	(3)
Alan Brunton
Man Sings	133	(1)
Jan Kemp
Munch Night Walker	134	(2)
Heather McPherson
Meditations in the Maternity Ward	136	(1)
Eleanor Horrocks
Laments From an Asylum	137	(2)
Reimke Ensing
Five Acts to Postulate the Drama	139	(2)
Bill Manhire
Maori Girl	141	(1)
Alan Taylor
Ihumatao	141	(1)
Robert Oti	142	(1)
Arene	142	(1)
Albino Angels	142	(2)
David Mitchell
The Absence	144	(3)
Mark Young
In Memoriam: Robert Desnos	145	(2)
Hoardings	147	(5)
Russell Haley
The Massive Problem of Re-entry	152	(2)
John MacNamara
Floyd	154	(2)
Barry Linton
Because of its Marked	156	(4)
Ian Wedde
Poets of Love	158	(2)
Kites	160	(2)
Arthur Baysting
Lament: Ihumatao Paa	162	(1)
Alan Taylor
In the Mhlahahabatini District	163	(1)
Dennis List
Notes on My Sixties at Twenty	163	(1)
Murray Edmond
Let me a trembling stranger share your gilt-edged security'	164	(1)
Kathinka Nordal Stene
Rh-ve	165	(1)
Uglyman	165	(1)
Message of the Black Rose	165	(2)
Merlene Young
Landlady	166	(1)
`on the flagpole...'	167	(1)
`alone on the bed...'	167	(1)
The Singing Bread	167	(9)
David Mitchell
Inside Us the Dead	176	(7)
Albert Wendt
Night Shift 1	183	(4)
Murray Edmond
Night Shift 2	184	(2)
Night Shift 4: A Prayer	186	(1)
Baudelaire's Scarf	187	(3)
Bob Orr
Experiences	188	(2)
The X	190	(1)
Railway Journey	190	(2)
Merlene Young
Advice from an Apparition	191	(1)
How can I tell you love	192	(2)
Heather McPherson
standing on a hill and trying to single you out	194	(2)
Frederick C. Parmee
Le Seigneur	195	(1)
2 Names for Mr Wedde's Kites	196	(1)
Bill Manhire
In Index	196	(4)
Ian Wedde
from 30 Nights on Mandrax	200	(10)
Peter Olds
On Probation	206	(4)
songs for the virgin	210	(2)
Anne Donovan
mister zed	212	(2)
Russell Haley
billy goat gruff's song	213	(1)
The Man on Crazies Hill	214	(4)
Alan Brunton
Rain at Auvers, 1890	217	(1)
A Spirit Medical for Fall or Strick	218	(4)
Stephen Chan
A Renunciation of Guiltessness	219	(3)
Philosophenweg	222	(2)
Ian Wedde
I could settle for that	223	(1)
Hands and Fingers	224	(8)
Harry Goodwin
The Liberated Clerk	226	(2)
Not many peopl, not many people, my friends, are acquainted with the bottoms of bridges	228	(2)
Train Music	230	(2)
from A Kitset of 26 Poems	232	(2)
Dennis List
Homage to Guillaume Apollinaire	234	(2)
Rhys Pasley
In the God Department	236	(3)
Eric Beach
Timing is Not Black & White When Blue	237	(2)
Beggar's Dog and Widow's Cat	239	(3)
Alan Brunton
J.K.B. My Sometime Rentcollector	241	(1)
compulsory stop	242	(4)
David Mitchell
On Out	246	(2)
Bob Orr
Love Song for Wilson the Whuckler	248	(2)
Dennis List
Suede Shoes Blues	250	(1)
Andrew Davie
Single Rabbit	251	(3)
Bill Manhire
New Jerusalem Sonnets	254	(4)
Brent Southgate
Bill Manhire
For Free / Poetry Terry Gilmore & Johnny Goodall	258	(3)
Nigel Roberts
Christ It's My Birthday	261	(1)
Eric Beach
In a Year's Turning	262	(1)
Murray Edmond
In Another Life	263	(1)
Ian Wedde
Epitaph	264	(1)
Peeping Tom(asina)	264	(1)
Riemke Ensing
Bad Times	265	(2)
Rachel McAlpine
Cup of Tea	266	(1)
Lyttelton	267	(1)
Anne Donovan
`I was lying in bed one day...'	268	(1)
Val Smith
`I would dance with her...'	268	(1)
`stinking sperm...'	269	(1)
Miranda
`i am lying a dark lizard...'	270	(3)
Christina Beer
`that hill has been burned...'	270	(1)
`i have plaited my horns...'	270	(1)
`my cunt is burning for you...'	271	(1)
`i am dark...'	271	(1)
`i stitched a dress for you...'	271	(1)
`remember when we made a fire at half moon bay...'	271	(1)
`i came up the track my heart beating...'	272	(1)
`you're going to mexico...'	272	(1)
Thirteen x Thirteen	273	(2)
Merlene Young
A poem from `Durango'	275	(1)
John MacNamara
Willie the Rich!	276	(9)
Martyn Sanderson
Overture With Variations	285	(4)
Ginny Sullivan
Psyche, at the Beginning of Spring	289	(2)
Murray Edmond
Quiet in the Eye, New Hebrides to Fiji '73	291	(4)
Jan Kemp
Letter to Harry Leeds	295	(6)
Alan Brunton
A Season in Hell	301	(3)
Mark Young
answers to circle quiz	304	(1)
Anon
August 1974	305	(3)
Nuru Jaya
April 1975	307	(1)
The New Zealand Land March on Wellington, Hepetema 14-Oketopa 17, 1975	308	(1)
Hone Tuwhare
The List / for / David Mitchell	309	(4)
Nigel Roberts
Protest, Performance, Publication, 1960-75	313	(22)
Michele Leggott
The Magazines	335	(2)
Biographical Notes	337	(6)
Index of Names	343