. . . Poetry Notes

Spring 2016 Volume 7, Issue 3

ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA

clearly produced with love, but none of Inside this Issue Welcome them was able to present the full range and power of Alistair’s poetry as this one Hello and welcome to issue 27 of does. That was partly due to his strange Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, insecurity: he could never quite believe 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of in his own work, so that he selected and Nelson Wattie on Alistair . deselected and also altered and rewrote Te Ariki Campbell Poetry Notes will be published quarterly poems up to the moment they went to and will include information about press, and beyond. He can’t do that with goings on at the Archive, articles on this book, and now we can read it Tributes to Bob Dylan historical New Zealand poets of interest, through from cover to cover – a strategy 3 and Leonard Cohen occasional poems by invited poets and a I recommend – to get a wonderful record of recently received donations to overview of the shifting images and the Archive. music of his words. Report on the East-West Articles and poems are copyright in the Poetry Fest We’ve grown accustomed to seeing the 4 names of the individual authors. older Alistair on the covers of his books, The newsletter will be available for free but the first thing that strikes the eye here Comment on Richard download from the Poetry Archive’s is the fresh photograph of the poet at Berengarten website: thirty-one, in 1956, at the time he was 5 married to and living with http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com her in Tinakori Road. Alistair and Fleur Poetry by David Karena- are the parents of one of the book’s Holmes editors, Andrew Campbell, who joined Nelson Wattie on with his friend Robert Sullivan, poet and expert on Pacific Island cultures, and New publications by Alistair Te Ariki also with the forces of VUP to produce PANZA members this book. They all deserve our warmest 6 Campbell thanks. Now the fires of controversy have Donate to PANZA through Editor, lecturer, researcher, poet and PayPal cooled. In the past some of Alistair’s 8 biographer Nelson Wattie presents his critics complained that he wrote too

launch speech (20 October 2016) from exclusively of his private affairs. The Recently received the recently published book The Collected Poems implicitly refutes that. donations Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki What strikes one now is the wide variety Campbell (Victoria University Press) of voices that speak in the poems. The About the Poetry Archive editors have sorted them into six It’s a special delight for me to hold this sections, and in each of them it is a book in my hands because I believe it different poetic voice that predominates. will make clear for the very first time Not only that: within each section there PANZA precisely why Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is a chorus of voices. Sequences like 1 Woburn Road deserves his place in the front rank of “Sanctuary of Spirits”, “Gallipoli” and Northland New Zealand’s creative spirits. Earlier “28 (Maori) Battalion” are deliberately Campbell volumes were often exquisite, 6012 designed as patterns of voices

...... Spring 2016 representing various points of view. But Alistair also gave a poetic voice to the greatly missed having a family with other poems also imply a speaker, not Cook Islands, where he spent his early parents. As a teenager he found a necessarily the poet, in a difficult, childhood. They speak and sing through substitute family with the Robertsons at amusing, romantic, loving, alien or many parts of his work, but most notably an orchard in Central Otago. He loved domestic situation, each with his or her perhaps in the sequence of twenty poems working in the orchard and he loved the unique voice. Reading Campbell is like called “Soul Traps”. In my own opinion family atmosphere. Even after coming to listening to a kaleidoscopic play of the Soul Traps are the most beautiful Wellington he spent summer weeks at voices. What they have in common is the poems ever written in New Zealand, but the orchard and persuaded some of his ineffable, mysterious, often melancholy there have always been readers who find friends to go down for fruit picking. music that is so characteristic of the poet them difficult. That’s an illusion. The Fleur Adcock once hiked down the South himself. reader may be distracted by unfamiliar Island in the company of Barry Mitcalfe, The many human voices are joined by names and words like Omoka, Nahe and sleeping in barns, hay stacks and school voices of places. Late in life, the great Pauma. They can be explained, but halls. Their destination was “Alistair’s” Irish poet, W B Yeats, claimed with before that you should just read the orchard and it was with Alistair that she satisfaction that he had given a voice to poems, preferably more than once, until returned. the seacliffs of his native land. Alistair the musical words sink into your mind. The Otago landscape remained special has given voices to several distinct There they act like seeds that will grow for Alistair to the end of his life. Once I landscapes that sing to us in his poems. into images within you and those images, mentioned apple varieties that we no Most familiar to this audience, perhaps, your own personal ones, will give shape longer seem to see, and he launched into is the Kapiti Coast. Alistair lived most of to the poems, no matter what external a joyous list of their names. It sounded his life with Meg in a modest house at references are intended. like a poem. He must have named about Pukerua Bay placed on a prominence In “Elegy for Anzac Day” there is twenty varieties of apples and I could like a castle. Now it is the home of their another Pacific place, Tahiti, and please imagine him at the orchard eating a daughter, Mary, and it’s inseparable from let me read a brief excerpt to illustrate purloined apple, with juice flowing over our image of the Campbell family. The the way the place speaks for itself: “And his chin and hands. Of course fruit trees poems arising from it are filled with now / the palm trees / crack their are not native to New Zealand and for sounds. The wind and rain that batter it knuckles, / as a puff of wind / from the me this love of the orchard in the are natural forces but are also filled with outgoing tide / spins and dances, / lifting spectacular primeval valley with pristine spirits. The great island of Kapiti is droplets / of fine mist, / rises / glancing mountains in view is a reminder that the called a “Sanctuary of Spirits” and the off the / creaking fronds, / collapses / in land of this country is a blend of the spirits in Alistair’s poems and novels fatigue…” native and the imported, just as Alistair’s deserve our attention. They are not I’ll pass over the poems of the Southern poetry is a blend of Polynesian and imposed on the landscape by the poet’s Alps, such as “The Return” and “Elegy”, European traditions. intellect, imagination or will. They are because they are perhaps the most The short poem I’ll read ‘Cromwell there as much as the calling seabirds or familiar. I’ll just say again that we will Gorge’ is set in a place that has now been the sparrows that play on the lawn. understand them best if we realise that flooded under an enormous hydro- Sometimes in the Campbell house a book the land itself is speaking through the electricity lake. or a vase would fall from a shelf or a poet. Let me quote W B Yeats again: door would suddenly slam although no “Man can embody truth but he cannot wind was apparent. Alistair and Meg know it.” That’s a poet’s attitude. always knew which spirit had caused Although Alistair was very widely read, such an event and why. It might be an he always denied that he was an ancestor, an unborn child or the troubled intellectual. The intellectual’s task is to spirit of someone still alive. Whoever it know, the poet’s to embody. Before was, they were sending a message. Alistair Campbell there were poets, some Something Alistair or Meg had said or of them highly regarded, who wrote done had disturbed a spirit. Similarly, about New Zealand. Alistair wrote New when we read of the warrior chieftain Te Zealand. Rauparaha rattling at the windows of the I’m going to conclude by reading a poem house, we will understand that best if we from Central Otago. After both his respect the poet’s sense that the old parents had died, Alistair came from the fighter was actually there. For my own Cook Islands to . He was seven part I can sense the spirits of Alistair and years old. He spent the rest of his Meg here, in this space, now. They loved childhood in an orphanage, where he bookshops, and where else should they often got into mischief. One of the spirits be but here where so many family that always inhabited Alistair was Maui, members and friends are assembled? and his laughter was unforgettable. At that time he depended on his siblings but 2 ...... Poetry Archive Echoes of Mr. Yeats’ hymn Times have changed so much, they’ve Tributes to Bob Dylan And a thousand singsong others remained the same and Leonard Cohen by Expressing in thought, word, music like your friend, Woody Michael O’Leary The all too familiar taste of dust and SO LONG LEONARD COHEN death Beginning life as a middle-class son Recalling the desolate row Comfortable in your Jewish Catholicism Of houses in Margaret Street Tailor-made for the family’s business Now either destroyed or gentrified You chose the more difficult artist’s must we really move path Into the Ponsonby of the new, shallow mind Through the Montreal poetry scene You played youth’s favourite games Later, you entered the ‘her’ Slim volumes proffering Flowers for the Part of my life also Führer: With a precious angel Eichmann’s normal human perversions now gone, but then I was the man in the long black coat More polite than the gutter snipe Rock and rollers, who said they joined From all you need is love minus zero A band to get laid: young Cohen said To being sick of love He played music to meet women Then, on one more night you took us from Maggie’s farm In the late 1960s when every belief To forever young, as a simple reminder Came to an end: when The Beatles’ apple PANZA co-founder Dr Michael Now there’s even talk of Turned to pulp without the future fiction O’Leary contributes his poem and the Cranking up the Oldsmobile You came along with a song from a above drawing (Blonde on Blonde) in For so long stuck inside, and room honour of Bob Dylan, who was awarded up the central plateaux this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, To Auckland, the Great Arsehole, A muse, in the real sense of ‘to amuse’ and an elegy for Leonard Cohen. sacred Someone who spoke openly about thought Michael O’Leary Okay, Mister Room Man And feeling, perhaps here was a poet Play a song for us Who wasn’t alive a hundred years ago BOB DYLAN, A VISITATION Say a prayer too, as you wing your own way Who wasn’t ‘beat’ or rock ‘n roll, (10/9/1998, Wellington) Earthbound, heavenwards soaring exactly beyond But came so far, with a Spanish guitar, With a seductive voice and lyric to With my ear to the future For always talking the blues match – And my mind to the past To your Jews and Gypsies Existential, if you’ll pardon the Sitting twenty rows back All those masters of war expression and up high old Hitler, Stalin, and yes I could feel the real visions of Johanna The President of the U.S. does So all our Suzanne’s took us all down sometimes stand naked To our own lands of rags and feathers; From the ancient times Remembering well that Chelsea Hotel, When the nuns had us sing Through all the years’ confusions New York and the tragic taste of The answer is blowing in the wind Of ideas and people and events success the Jews and the Catholics To this present listening Have fought pitched battles over my so many things have happened You went into God’s Hamburger Bar in soul While you just keep on singing to my The city of Angels, wanting nothing but sister’s alarm ‘One with Everything’ . . . becoming a And out on Highway Sixty One Buddhist Or along any lonesome railway track I’m glad to come and see you Monk to escape the world of pain and The songs remain like freight cars To tip my hat to the master’s hand love to be sung or shunted With my rainy day woman Along the weary lines of a human face asleep on my shoulder ...... 3 Spring 2016 Old songs and new could not be and Whanganui. As the news about this valuable suggestions as the programme suppressed event spread, poets from Wellington was being developed. So you returned to the world to bring and Gisborne also expressed an interest One important feature of a large them, in participating, with several of them, meeting like this is to have effective To sing them to audiences old and new including Mark Pirie, John Howell, chairing of all the sessions. Otherwise Hallelujah, Hallelujah: from below and Harvey Molloy and Benita Kape, being there is zero chance of sticking to the above included in the final poetry fest advertised programme, as nearly every programme. poet will take an extra few minutes of Dancing to the end of love, you twirled The major programme focus was on live speaking time, most without knowing it! Full circle, singing so long Marianne, poetry readings. Current New Zealand With chairing, there’s no substitute for by e-mail Poet Laureate C K Stead from Auckland experience, as demonstrated by many of As she lay dying, remembering Greek contributed a good half hour of poetry those who assisted, and with Dave Isles and ideas to the opening session. Then Sharp and John Howell, as timekeepers Sunshine and smiles, farewell dreaming came four full poetry sessions over two assisting the chairs, leading the way. days, in which 33 poets contributed 10 A few days after the fest, a survey form It’s now as dark as you want it, Leonard minutes each of their own poetry and was distributed by email, with fest But remember, there’s always that crack ideas. Each of these sessions was well- participants invited to rate the various Perhaps you really have come to attended, with a positive audience activities on a 1 to 5 scale, and to include understand response. individual comments if they wished. Now, that’s where the light truly gets The other main focus was on three Currently 31 replies have been received, in . . . chaired group discussions. Each of these with every part of the fest programme included leading contributions, up to 10 receiving an average rating of 4.1 or minutes each, from three or more higher, except for the brief closing speakers with known expertise in the session, which included no poetry and Report on the topic. Time was also allowed for others received an average rating of 3.6. The to contribute, but on a less formal basis. highest average rating of 4.6 went to the East-West Poetry Fest The topics chosen for the discussions opening session, which included C K were: uses of metaphor in poetry; Stead’s poetry and ideas, followed by a by Bill Sutton reading and performing poetry; and 4.3 average rating for the three ways of publishing poetry. All three discussion sessions, 4.1 for the four discussions resulted in lively debates. poetry sessions, and 4.0 for the social EAST-WEST POETRY FEST Other notable aspects of the programme event, which unfortunately was not well REPORT by Bill Sutton included a stimulating lunchtime attended. address from Manawatu poet Tim The fest organisation received even The East-West Poetry Fest, which took Upperton on ‘Poetry and the Price of higher ratings, topped by an average place in the Palmerston North City your Soul’; a social evening with live rating of 4.9 for the registration fee (just Library on 12-13th November 2016, music from the Sue Pugmire Jazz Band; $20 for two days of poetry and was by far the largest gathering of poets and a poetry bookstall featuring 22 discussion, including full catering for ever held in the Manawatu region, with books of poetry written by poets morning and afternoon teas, the Saturday 52 poets paying $20 each to participate, attending the fest. The bookstall, which lunch, and the social event), followed by and 12 other people helping with was hosted by Bruce McKenzie, of BM 4.7 for the communications, 4.6 for the essential tasks. Booksellers, resulted in many sales, catering, 4.1 for the venue and an overall Envisaged as a mini version of the although arguably it might have been rating of 4.4 for the fest as a whole. national poetry conferences currently better publicised. The individual comments, which were being staged in New Zealand every As the fest organiser I benefited from far too numerous, and in some cases too second year, the Poetry Fest idea advice provided by a steering group, controversial, to be included here, made originated in the Hawke’s Bay, where which included representatives from fascinating reading for me personally, the Hawke’s Bay Live Poets’ Society Horowhenua, Manawatu, Whanganui, and are certain to influence the has in recent years held joint meetings Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa. The organisation of future poetry events. One with several neighbouring poetry Palmerston North City Library staff very clear message was the importance groups. were especially helpful and took of keeping background noise levels to a After it proved difficult for us to contact responsibility for organising both the minimum when live poetry is being read. a sufficient number of active poets in venue and the catering. Massey This was not always achieved in the the Manawatu region, it was decided to University was seen from the outset as Palmerston North City Library, which organise a larger meeting and invite being an important stakeholder, with prides itself on being a venue for open poets and supporters from five Bryan Walpert, as one of the steering involvement by the wider community neighbouring regions: Wairarapa, group members, making several including children. Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu, Horowhenua

4 ...... Poetry Archive Another point that came through clearly Follette’s, and certainly also in the individual comments was the Berengarten’s Notness sonnets Poetry by David wide diversity of opinions about how (Shearsman Books 2015). Karena-Holmes future poetry events ought to be run. It I do not know of anyone writing sonnets is evident that one strong current of nowadays like Berengarten’s though opinion, based in the English sonnets are widely written nowadays by David Karena-Holmes, once noted by Departments of our universities but not neoformalists. So I see Berengarten’s James K Baxter in the late 1960s, confined to them, favours an ‘elitist’ sonnets as both unique and remarkable features in the latest issue of PANZA approach in which only a few poets in terms of technique. archivist Mark Pirie’s journal would be invited to contribute to the I have suggested that Donne was the broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, poetry sessions. The rest would model of Berengarten’s mode of November 2016. Here are two of presumably only be invited along to sonnets, but this is true only for ‘Batter David’s poems from the issue. make up the numbers. my Heart’. But that is Donne’s best A second quite different current of known and most powerful sonnet and so BESIDE THE RESERVOIR opinion, based in regional groups like enough to influence a receptive mind. the Hawke’s Bay Live Poets’ Society However the personality of the Notness (At Ross Creek) and the Horowhenua Writers’ Group, sonnets is already on show in ‘Fall on but not confined to them, appreciates my Heels’ which Berengarten dates Twenty years ago I swung hearing from a wide diversity of voices 1967 when he was aged 23-4. on strands of the supplejack and styles. I was especially taken by I think it is fair to say that in my case as one comment made aloud, near the end a young man, as in Berengarten’s, a that tangles in sombre bush of the poetry fest, when a woman said sense of time as the antagonist was a beside this reservoir's black, “For the first time, here today, I realised motivator to poetry such as I have that I’m not on my own, I’m actually written by way of memorial to our days. brooding water. Now time sits part of a community of poets.” I understand Berengarten’s concern for heavily on me; is not Here perhaps I should share my own the now-ness of things but the intense opinion, formed over the last three passion he brings to the matter is to be unloaded... Grim clouds decades: the most important motivation, extraordinary and significant as such. gather. Twenty years - and what for poets to attend poetry events, is to Berengarten achieves this intense have the chance to read their own passion by setting time against things, have I learnt? The secretive poems to an appreciative audience. as Spenser also does eg in ‘The Ruins of depths of the reservoir hold Time’. Bill Sutton is the East-West Poetry Fest no hint of compromise. Leaves organizer. His new book, Billy Button: whisper hoarsely in the cold A Life, was published this year. gusts of rising wind. I feel my flesh gripped by a dark stain, Comment on Richard and watch the reservoir’s eye Berengarten blur with cataracts of rain.

A NOTE ON NOTNESS BY NIEL A STAR IN SPACE WRIGHT “Mental things alone are real… Richard Berengarten is like John Donne One thought fills immensity.” in loading his traditional rhymed – William Blake sonnets, and his performance is impressive. Berengarten has been Years ago a star writing sonnets for 50 years, so it is not Editor’s note: Richard Berengarten, sent out this beam of light a flash in the pan of his poems, but a known to New Zealand poetry readers, now captured by our sight, consistent and long lasting manner. is a distinguished UK poet, who serially sent it from afar, I have no doubt that we can talk about published his recent book sequence neoformalism in English poetry since Manual as mini booklets through the sent it from a place 1950. One expression of it is what has publisher Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop across a gulf of space been called New Formalism among (Michael O’Leary/B E Turner) in so vast that human thought American poets. I see my own poetry as Paekakariki, New Zealand. seems almost set at nought. neoformalism, also Cameron La ...... 5 Spring 2016 But space itself, it’s clear, About the Book About the Author is present everywhere – and therefore vaster than Die Bibel is the harrowing/entertaining/ Michael O’Leary (b. 1950) is a well the view of any man, inspiring chronicle of a singular known bookshop proprietor, publisher, restricted in his sight bohemian journey in Aotearoa New novelist, poet and performer. to particles of light. Zealand. Anecdotes about Baxter, He is publisher for Earl of Seacliff Art Tuwhare and a vivid array of other Workshop, an established independent How can we comprehend writers, artists, musicians, friends and publisher of contemporary New Zealand this space without an end? lovers season the story of a man who poetry and fiction. has overcome considerable obstacles to He now lives in Paekakariki, north of Perhaps we can’t – but this fulfil his creative destiny and cultivate Wellington. Website: reveals the mind’s abyss: his distinctive lifestyle. http://michaeloleary.wordpress.com for all we know we know As long ago as 1998 the Oxford is made of mind, and so Companion to we may contend at last described Michael O’Leary as a * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * that, though vast we find publisher, poet, novelist, performer and the universe, the mind, bookseller who has made a colourful Title: Rock and Roll: Selected Poems even of the blind, contribution to the literary scene. His in Five Sets must be just as vast. Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop imprint Author: Mark Pirie has published around 170 books — his ISBN 978-0-9941861-2-6 own prolific output (the Companion Price: $30.00 noted that Michael’s own prose owes Extent: 160 pages something to Joyce and Beckett) and Format: 108mmx174mm many other writers, alternative and Publication: September 2016 mainstream. Publisher: Bareknuckle Books, In recent years Michael has completed Australia masters and doctoral studies in New Zealand publishing and literature, and has continued to write, publish and sell books from his seaside earldom at Paekakariki. Die Bibel includes a generous selection of Michael’s poems, which express his feelings and pay tribute to extraordinary people and events in his life.

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this selection of daring and innovative work from his prolific output. Rock & Roll features poems selected from 1992 to 2016 in the form of five 6 ...... Poetry Archive set lists: Rock & Roll (music poems); About the Book Special FX (film/TV poems); Good Luck Bar (love poems); Sidelights This new collection from a widely (sporting poems); and Postcards admired Australian poet of his (Australian poets/poems). generation, combines major new sequences with shorter lyrical, concrete About the Author and prose poems, and gives a generational sense of what it means to Mark Pirie was born in Wellington, be an urban Australian looking into the New Zealand, in 1974. He is a poet, future. A 21st century apocalyptic howl fiction writer, literary critic, publisher, from the cities: Aboriginal to nowhere. editor and anthologist. His poems and critical essays have been widely About the Author published internationally and he is represented in major anthologies of Brentley Frazer is a contemporary New Zealand poetry such as Essential Australian author. He holds a MA New Zealand Poems. As a publisher (writing) from James Cook University

(HeadworX), he has published more and will complete a Ph.D. (creative than 60 titles of New Zealand and Comment on Thomson’s collection: writing) from Griffith University in Australian poetry. He currently edits 2016. His poems have been published in broadsheet: new new zealand poetry. “MaryJane Thomson has a raw numerous international magazines, unorthodox voice. You mightn't agree journals, newspapers, anthologies and with everything she says in her poems other periodicals since 1992. He is the * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * but she certainly demands attention and author of Scoundrel Days, a nonfiction makes the reader think. She is novel (University of Queensland Press Title: Songs of the City outspoken and direct and her poems forthcoming 2017) and five books of Author: MaryJane Thomson range widely through contemporary poetry. ISBN 978-0-473-36566-0 life.” – Fiona Kidman Price: $30.00

Extent: 86 pages Format: 148mmx210mm About the Author Publication: September 2016 Publisher: HeadworX MaryJane Thomson, a Wellington writer, artist and photographer, is the About the Book author of the memoir Sarah Vaughan is Not my Mother (Awa Press, 2013), the The poems in MaryJane Thomson’s poetry sequence Fallen Grace third collection, Songs of the City, (HeadworX/The Night Press, 2014) and continue to develop her highly original the full-length collection Lonely Earth poetic since her first two collections (HeadworX, 2015). Her poetry is Fallen Grace and Lonely Earth featured in Outcryer (USA) and has announced the arrival of an exciting appeared in Black Mail Press, Valley new talent in New Zealand poetry. Micropress, broadsheet, and other Songs of the City features a mix of places. longer and shorter poems grouped by thematic links: Finding Your Light (Big Issue poems), Watch (faith and spiritual * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * poems), Funny Sun Kissed Fantasy (love poems) and Conversations and Title: Aboriginal to Nowhere Songs (music and letter poems). Author: Brentley Frazer Songs of the City ranges over ISBN 978-0-473-36567-7 contemporary issues and offers a Price: $25.00 generational assessment of a Extent: 90 pages technologically driven world. With soul, Format: 140mmx211mm energy and a probing mind, Thomson’s Publication: August 2016 is an alert and urgent voice. Publisher: HeadworX

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