Subjects

Subjects

Table of Contents “...Kopara 28 -- He Waiata Pepeha 30 -- In the Beginning 31 -- Kei Runga Above 1 32 -- A Prophetic Land 33 -- In Praise of Land and Sea 35 -- A Homage to Tane 35 -- A Homage to Tangaroa 35 -- Ko Hiwarau te Maunga 36 -- Rain Poems 37 -- The Valley 37 -- Wai 37 -- E Ma 38 -- Ka Riri te Whanau a Tane 41 -- Tawhiri, Kaitiaki of Winds 42 -- E Ao Maori 44 Ko te Tapu o te Whenua 45 -- The Songs of Tangaroa 46 -- Te Au o te Moana 46 -- Ra'iatea 46 -- Whakarongo ki to Au 47 -- He Kuaka Marangaranga 47 -- Hineahuone 48 -- Toro atu Taku Ringa 51 -- Tamariki Ma 52 -- Why Does a Leaf Turn? ...”

Table of Contents “...Phillips -- Chang En-Man : Arena, 2012 / CH -- Chu ChunTeng : Taiwan, Taiwan, 2011 / JH -- Nathan Pohio : The feral horses of Natasha von Braun, 2015 / JH -- Natalie Robertson : Kawerau drive through, 2006/2015 / CH -- Kawerau drive through narrative, 2006 / Natalie Robertson -- Shannon Te Ao : Two shoots that stretch / BEP -- He waiata mō te moe punarua = The song of the first wife / English translated from te reo Māori as featured in: Apirana Ngata, Hirini Moko Mead, Ngā mōteatea The songs: part four -- Ten Chao Ming : becoming a different person, 2011 / JH....”

Table of Contents “...Introduction / Simon Wilson -- I saw the mountain erupt / Morgan Godfery -- At the heart of it / Jess Berentson-Shaw -- New radicals / Simon Wilson -- Moon landings / Sara Laing -- Scenic potential / Conor Clarke -- Melino stood at the edge / Teena Brown Pulu -- The root of it all / Carys Goodwin -- Trump's wall / Tim Watkin -- We're all Māori now / Emma Espiner -- A time, a place, three songs / Maria Majsa -- The path not yet travelled / Raf Manji -- The fruit shop / Gilbert Wong -- The long shadow / Māmari Stephens -- The open society and its friends / David Cohen -- Fa'afetai tele lava, James Baldwin / Victor Rodger -- The politics of disengagement / Sylvia Nissen -- The things I used to say / Andrew Judd -- Damn the dams / Mike Joy and Kyleisha Foote -- Critic and conscience / Giselle Byrnes -- The art of dreaming / Max Harris -- How to die / Jo Randerson....”

Table of Contents “...What I'm reading / Anthony Byrt -- The land of the long white cloud / Eleanor Catton -- My own private Aotearoa / Giovanni Tiso -- A song from under the floorboards / Lara Strongman -- When not to expect / David Haywood -- Ear to the ground / Nic Low -- The needle and the damage done / Megan Clayton -- Mother's Day / Naomi Arnold -- The desperate quest: how Auckland's property market drove me to the edge of insanity / Greg Bruce -- About an egging / Steve Braunias -- Notes on cultural diplomacy / Leilani Tamu -- My swim with Kim / José Barbosa -- Small revolutions, or : on my bike in London / Ashleigh Young -- The king and I / Paul Ewen -- He taonga te Reo : how ngā Kupu Māori contribute to New Zealand writing in english / Tina Makereti -- There's a buried forest on my land / Rachel Buchanan -- Mutton / Simon Wilson -- The sound of thunder / Keith Ng -- The origin and extinction of species / David Winter -- Spring forward / Claire Browning -- Shine bright like a moko : the history of Rihanna's tattoo / Alice Te Punga Somerville -- Paul / David Herkt -- Borrowed lungs / Gregory Kan -- What I learned from momo: or, when is a house a stand of trees? ...”

Table of Contents “...War Poems -- Gallipoli (14 poems) -- 28 (Maori) Battalion (66 poems) -- 5. Poets in Our Youth -- Letter to John Mansfield Thomson -- Letter to Harry Orsman -- Letter to Pat Wilson -- Letter to James K Baxter -- Letter to John Kelly -- 6. ...”

Table of Contents “...Machine-generated: The Early Years: Dunedin and Christchurch 1945-1949: High Country Weather -- Lie deep, my love -- Blow, wind of fruitfulness -- Returned Soldier -- The Bay -- Sea Noon -- Naseby -- Elegy for my Father's Father -- Let Time be still -- Tunnel Beach -- Haast Pass -- Letter to Noel Ginn II -- To my Father -- Thrushes -- Elegy for an Unknown Soldier -- The Cave -- Farmhand -- Virginia Lake -- Rocket Show -- Wild Bees -- Venetian Blinds -- The Morgue -- The Wellington Years and a Visit to India 1950-1965: Poem in the Matukituki Valley -- Thoughts of a Dying Calvinist -- The Fallen House -- Boscastle -- In the Lecture Room -- Tarras Moon -- Book of the Dead -- The Bad Young Man -- Portrait of a Poet -- The Homecoming -- Never No More -- The Book of Hours -- The Journey -- Seraphion -- Jack the Swagger's Song -- Elegy at the Year's End -- Lament for Barney Flanagan -- Letter to Australia -- The Woman on the Stair -- Heard in a Sod Chimney -- The Fisherman -- Crossing Cook Strait -- A Rope for Harry Fat -- In fires of no return -- By the Dry Cardrona -- At Hokianga -- Pyrrha -- Green Figs at Table -- At Akitio -- Howrah Bridge -- School Days -- Eioko -- At the Tomb of Theseus -- Be Happy in Bed -- Mandrakes for Supper -- Elephanta -- Sisyphus -- A Prospect of Old Age -- Footnote to Antony and Cleopatra -- Ballad of Calvary Street -- Evidence at the Witch Trials -- Christchurch 1948 -- Obsequy for Dylan Thomas -- Winter -- To Jacquie -- Makara Beach -- On the Death of her Body -- Election 1960 -- The Sixties -- Ballad of John Silent -- Brown Bone -- Brighton -- At Taieri Mouth -- Ballade of the Happy Bureaucrat -- Bushed -- Christmas 1943 -- A Family Photograph 1939 -- Concrete Grady at the Saturday Novena -- The Tree -- The Boys -- At Serrieres -- The Hollow Place -- The Cold Hub -- The Last Judgement Martyrdom -- The Buried Stream -- On Reading Yevtushenko Waipatiki Beach -- An Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the of Her Majesty's Visit to Pig Island -- Shingle Beach Poem -- Occasion -- The Farm -- Then -- East Coast Journey -- The Watch -- New Zealand -- Pig Island Letters -- Letter to Robert Burns -- Seven Year Old Poet -- Tomcat -- At Days Bay -- The Ballad of Grady's Dream -- High Wind at Hokio -- Postman -- Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife -- Great-Uncles and Great-Aunts -- To a Print of Queen Victoria -- A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar -- The Gunner's Lament -- The Strike -- The Lion Skin -- Return to Dunedin 1966-1968: On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966 -- The Kraken -- Dunedin Habits -- The Monument -- At Wanaka -- The Maori Jesus -- A View from Duffy's Farm -- The Muse -- The River [Nothing as broad as] -- Daughter -- To my Father in Spring -- from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost: The Party -- The Wound -- The Rock -- The Flower -- At Queenstown -- At the Franz Josef Glacier -- At the Fox Glacier Hotel -- Mother and Son -- At Kuri Bush -- At Brighton Bay -- The Bridge -- The Titan -- To speak truly -- Home Pleasures -- Man, You Will Be Dust -- Fitz Drives Home the Spigot -- Afternoon Walk -- At Rakiura -- Winter River -- Grandfather -- The River [My brother started the boat engine] -- The Wheel -- At Naseby -- Winter Sea -- Reflections at Lowburn Ferry -- The Jar -- Winter Poem to my Wife -- Discovery -- A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting -- To Mate With -- Tangi -- The Flame -- The Instruments -- The Child -- Cleaning up After the Party -- The Fear of Change -- The Sailor -- The Seed-Givers -- Rhadamanthus -- Summer 1967 -- The Millstones -- The Bluegums -- The Caryatids -- The Victim -- The Doctrine -- Instruction -- Here -- Dunedin Morning -- Letter from the Mountains -- The Garland -- Bacchante -- The Gale -- The Searchers -- The Black Star -- The Seals -- The Bargain -- Poem against Comfort -- The Serpent -- Words for a Poet -- Epilogue for Ian -- Seances -- The Hero -- The Bohemians -- Mining Town -- The Eccentrics -- Letter to Sam Hunt -- To Patric Carey -- Valediction -- The Jerusalem Years 1969-1972: Ballad of the Stonegut Sugar Works -- Ballad of the Junkies and the Fuzz -- The Labyrinth -- The Rocks -- from Jerusalem Sonnets -- The Black Book Song -- Song for Sakyamuni -- Winter Monologue -- The Ikons -- In Praise of the Taniwha -- Conversation in a Garden -- News from a Pacified Area -- Getting Stoned on the Night Air -- Morning in Jerusalem -- Ballad of the Third Boobhead -- Ballad of Pigeon Park -- He Waiata mo Te Kare -- from Autumn Testament -- Ferry from Lyttelton -- Torso I -- Torso II -- Letter to Peter Olds -- from Five Sestinas -- The Dark Welcome -- Sestina of the River Road -- In Times of Trouble among Nations -- The Return [When I go among the trees] -- The Tiredness of Me and Heraldes -- [Moss on plum branches] -- [A pair of sandals] -- Ode to Auckland....”