. . . Poetry Notes

Winter 2011 Volume 2, Issue 2

ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA

of Literature: being a List Inside this Issue Welcome of New Zealand Authors and their works with introductory essays and Hello and welcome to the sixth issue of verses, page 59: Gerard, Kate, with a Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, full list of her 13 books of poetry and 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of page 55: Eyre, Ernest Leonard, with on two classic New Zealand Aotearoa. 1906 Future times and other rhymes, NZ poets: Kate Gerard and Poetry Notes will be published quarterly and 1918 In the bush and other verses and will include information about nd Ernest L. Eyre (2 edition), but nothing else. goings on at the Archive, articles on Obituary: David Mitchell historical New Zealand poets of interest, occasional poems by invited poets and a KATE GERARD 3 record of recently received donations to Tributes to David Mitchell the Archive. by O’Leary and The National Library on line catalogue 4 The newsletter will be available for free Ron Riddell credits her with 14 book publications, download from the Poetry Archive’s and gives her dates as 1855-1934, so Classic New Zealand website: she lived to 79. poetry by Rex Hunter There is no trace of any other forenames 6 http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com American-born NZ busker for her than Kate. The name Kate and poet ‘Kenny’ dies Gerard does not appear in New Zealand 8 Biographies at the National Library, but

Niel Wright on two Tapuhi has correspondence of hers in Comment on the Alistair various files. Te Ariki Campbell classic NZ poets: 9 Exhibition – Cook Islands Kate Gerard and poet Larry Biography Matthews dies Ernest L. Eyre 10 Kate Gerard appears in the 1893 Donations of NZ poetry electoral roll for Fendalton with made to the Poetry occupation listed as domestic duties. Library, London Wellington poet/critic/publisher Niel Wright reports on two classic poets of The National Archives records CAHX-

CH-171-17549 probate number 17549 Recently received New Zealand’s past, who seem to have file date 3 December 1934 identify a donations fallen through the cracks since 1940 12 Kate Gerard with occupation spinster, and yet the National Library and the Turnbull Library in Wellington have clearly enough by date of death and About the Poetry Archive substantial holdings of their works. location (CH = ) as the Fendalton resident above, and so as the Neither Kate Gerard nor E L Eyre come poet Kate Gerard, who is therefore a poet of Christchurch, where the PANZA up in any NZ poetry anthology we have been able to check, but they are both Waimairi Cemetery record of PO Box 6637 headstones gives ‘GERARD Kate b Marion Square listed in the book Authors’ Week 1936: Annals 1855, d 1934. Annie d 1944,’ again Wellington 6141 unquestionably the poet.

...... Winter 2011 A Google search for New Zealand The Call of the Light: where there is no Ernest Leonard Eyre appears in the pages brings up references to Kate vision the people perish 10 pages 18cm 1960 North Shore electoral roll as Gerard. poems 1933 to be seen as ‘Book VIII’ retired living at Wicklow Road with In 1934 the property of Kate Gerard was (ie by Bagnall). Mabel Pearl Eyre. offered for purchase to form Fendalton Captain Oates of Scott’s Last In the 1938 East electoral roll Park, then a project, but was not chosen. Expedition to the Pole duplicated Ernest Leonard Eyre living at Wicklow In 1944 the rear end of the property at typewritten poem ‘April 1927’ 3 leaves Road with Mabel Pearl Eyre is 173 Fendalton Rd of Annie Gerard 33x21 cm 1927. described as author, but there is no trace (1862?-1944), sister of Kate Gerard, My Horse the King ‘In memory of Roy of him at that address in earlier electoral was purchased to extend Fendalton Stewart and other men who made the rolls that I can find. Park. Whichever of the sisters is meant, great sacrifice.’ 24 pages 18cm Poem Bagnall for Pen Pictures 1931 gives as lived where Willowbrook Place (off 1927. I might ask is this the Canterbury in print on the title page Ernest L Eyre, Fendalton Rd) was later formed. Mounted Rifles? Wicklow Road, Narrow Neck, Papers Past for Waiapu Gazette records My White Horse ‘In memory of Cyril Devonport, Auckland, N.Z. (author of that the Kate Gerard bequest made Gordon and other missionaries who 14 verse and prose publications). Total grants on 1 January 1939 for book have made the sacrifice.’ 36 pages 17cm sales 26,000. purchases. poems [1929]. Bagnall for Lips to kiss and hands to The Kate Gerard Boys’ Fund provided Nicodemus, the blind man 32 pages hold and other songs about days of old funds for the Anglican Diocese of 17cm poem [1929]. c1940 gives as in print on the title page Wellington to purchase books. Peter 59 pages 18cm poem [1930] Ernest L Eyre author of 17 verse and It is quite clear from the list of Kate Jacob, the destiny for all nations 35 prose publications; thirty thousand Gerard’s books that all are books of pages 1932. copies sold…and with folder (verse) poetry and that her poetry was religious. Stream of Living Waters 11 [1] pages ‘Souvenir from Auckland N.Z’, [4] I have the vaguest sense that at some 19cm poem [1934]. pages stapled in. time I have seen her 32 page book Bagnall for Camp-Fire Rhymes 1923 Nicodemus, the blind man [1929]. says it includes a biographical note Kate Gerard belongs to the same ERNEST LEONARD EYRE ‘Peripatetic Poets,’ by J Liddell Kelly generation as poet Mary E Richmond (who died 1925), reprinted from (1853-1949), and there are cultural and The National Library on line catalogue The Auckland Star, Supplement, sociological commonalities between credits him with 22 book publications, 5 November, 1921. them. and gives his dates as 1886-1968. He The National Library/Turnbull Library was in fact, as Rowan Gibbs notes, born copy of Pen Pictures (1931) includes a in December 1885 (according to Births, reprint tipped in ‘A much-travelled Her Books Deaths, & Marriages). So he lived to 82. bard.’ A Google search of New Zealand pages It’s clear from the Union Catalogue and brings up five Papers Past pieces and the National Library on line catalogue Biography two references to a book of his for sale. that her book The Call of the Light appeared in six volumes between 1916 His full name is confirmed by his only and 1922 as: entry in National Library’s Biographical His Books Volume 1 35 pages 14cm poem [1916]; Index (NZ Biographies 1968 v 3 page Volume 2 35 pages 14cm poems 13) as Ernest Leonard Eyre of The Union Catalogue lists two [1917]; Devonport 1886?-1968. publications by Ernest L Eyre not in the Volume 3 not listed poems [1918]; North Shore Times, 30 April 1968, National Library, and not located by Volume 4 55 pages 14cm [1919]; and ‘Obituary Mr E. L. Eyre’ deals solely Bagnall, viz: Volume 5 34 pages 14cm poems [1920] with E L Eyre’s connection with the 1. Mother Calls Her Children Home to all these with the author’s name as North Shore Rugby Club 1904-1967 as Tea, and Other Recollections Dear to ‘Kate Gerard’; and both player and official, life member Me: revived, for all to read, in poetry Volume 6 62 pages 14cm poems [1922] from 1910. He wrote his history of the [37] pages 22cm [193-?]. No further with the author ‘K.G.’ and a different club 40 years before. There is no information in the bibliographies. printer. mention of him as an author, but his full 2. Scarborough Baby-Killers and Other 14cm = octavo in old style description. name is given as Ernest Leonard Eyre of Recitations [2nd edition] Napier, Does poem [1916] = poems? Wicklow Road, Devonport. He was 82. Venables 24 pages 21cm 1920. Behold the Light 31 pages 26x11cm He was survived by a son and daughter Bagnall besides the two above also lists 1925 described as ‘Book VII’, and and five grandchildren. I take it that as not located McDonald and includes ‘The Song of the Land’, 1886? for his date of birth is an O’Flannerty and other verses. ‘Joshua and Paul’ and ‘Gallipoli’. inference from age 82 given here.

2 ...... Poetry Archive The 25 publications listed in the Future Times and Other Rhymes some or magazines, and he appears to have National Library on line catalogue of poems previously published 78 pages ceased publishing poetry in book form Eyre, Ernest L plus the four above cover 18cm 1906. in 1940, aged 55. 19 titles. The Road to Maoriland and Other Only one of E L Eyre’s books of poems The earliest date of publication is 1906, Verses all poems previously published goes to 100 pages, Camp-Fire Rhymes the next 1912, the latest 193-?, 1938, 55 pages 20x13cm 1912. 1923 and only the first of all in 1906 1939, [1939 or 1940] and [1973], the Cuttin’ Flax and Other Verses 48 pages comes near it at 78 pages. Thereafter he rest fall between 1915 and 1931. 18cm 1918. Nothing in the settled for booklets of 20-40 pages, but At least three of Eyre’s books are bibliographies to indicate previous could enlarge them for later editions to wholly prose, C’mon Shore! [1973] and publications. 50-60 pages. A Fortnight’s Cruise on the Hauraki Camp-Fire Rhymes all poems But he is clearly to be seen as a popular Gulf, Auckland (1921), both throughout previously published 1st ed. 100 pages and successful poet 1906-1930 and it seems, and Tales of the New Zealand 18cm 1923. beyond: Bush (1929) short stories: ‘The amateur Pen Pictures of Australia and (a) by the volume of his poetry that got bushranger’ and ‘The Valley of the Maoriland 24 [2] pages 24cm 1924 into print in newspapers; Moa’ ‘originally published in the N.Z. mainly in verse, includes reprint tipped (b) by the number of books of poems Magazine’. in ‘A much-travelled bard.’ Bagnall and reprints of such books he achieved Consisting of prose and verse are says ‘mainly reprinted from the Star.’ in the years 1906-1940; and Maoriland & Australian Prose and Mother Calls Her Children Home to (c) by the total volume of sales viz Verse (1929, 1930), and The Wreck On Tea, and Other Recollections Dear to 30,000 copies he clams to have Opotiki Beach (1939) while Pen Me: revived, for all to read, in poetry achieved for those books and booklets. Pictures (1931) is ‘mainly in verse, ‘ the [37] pages 22cm [193-?]. After 1940 E L Eyre’s standing as a National Library copy of which includes The Wreck on Opotiki Beach 32 pages poet seems to have been lost from sight. a reprint tipped in ‘A much-travelled 22x14cm 1938 which includes prose bard.’ and verse is the only book of Ernest L Otherwise all E L Eyre’s books consist Eyre we have in the Poetry Archive of Obituary: David solely of poems it seems. New Zealand Aotearoa. There are 62 Six of Eyre’s books of poems have poems, of which nine are described as Mitchell multiple editions, usually with each printed in newspapers, one twice, all edition published in a different region of before 1931, and another four described New Zealand: as written for newspapers. All the other David Mitchell, poet, writer, performer, 1. The British Gunner and Other Lines poems are undated. All the prose pieces teacher and cricketer, died in June this poems previously published in New except the title piece appeared in year. He was arguably one of New Zealand newspapers and magazines, 2nd newspapers before 1931, including Zealand’s finest poets, and certainly one ed. 24 pages 19cm 1919, 3rd ed. [1920] articles on poets Will Lawson, Margaret of the more innovative. 2. The Call and Other Lines all poems Sinclair, Arthur H Adams, Dick Harris, David was born in Wellington in 1940. previously published 23 pages 19cm Alan E Mulgan. This book was He was a keen sportsman in his younger 1915, 2nd ed. enlarged 1917 collected by the brilliant bibliophile Dr years. His biographers Martin Edmond 3. Our Navy and Other Rhymes all Michael O’Leary capped today for his and Nigel Roberts note: ‘He enjoyed poems previously published 24 pages PhD, 18 May 2011, as I worked on this cricket, rugby, fives, swimming, diving 19cm 1916, 20cm 1919. essay. and water-polo.’ At Wellington College 4. In the bush and other verses 15 Lips to kiss and hands to hold and other in the 1950s, New Zealand captain John poems all poems previously published songs about days of old 40 [4] pages Reid named Mitchell as one of 40 pages 18cm 1917, 1918, 3rd ed. 1919, 22cm [1939 or 1940] with poem Wellington’s five outstanding and for 1921 apparently 2 further ‘Souvenir from Auckland N.Z’, [4] schoolboy cricketers. At rugby, he was editions. pages stapled in. Otherwise nothing in a second five-eighth and coached by 5. Maoriland & Australian Prose and the bibliographies to indicate previous Sam Meads, cousin of Colin and Stan. Verse 28 pages 22cm 1929, also 1930. publications. His first poem publication was in the Nothing in the bibliographies to indicate It is evident that at the age of 20 in 1906 Wellington College annual The previous publications. E L Eyre was successfully placing Wellingtonian. 6. Swimmin’ in the Mokau, and other poems in newspapers and magazines, After school he attended Victoria literature with a country flavour some and made a practice of reprinting them University (1958-59), then graduated poems previously published 2nd ed. 22 in book form ever after. from Wellington Teacher’s College in pages 22cm 1938. Bagnall says Text on His success in this mode of operation 1960 and taught his probationary year at covers, 16 unpaginated pages bound in continued down to 1930 when the great Upper Hutt Primary School, before between pages 8 and 9. Depression put paid to poetry in leaving New Zealand for London Of his books of poems that appear to newspapers. Thereafter E L Eyre in1962 (doing casual and relief have only one edition: struggled to place poems in newspapers teaching) and travelling to Europe...... 3 Winter 2011 Overseas his experiences drastically included in the anthology ‘A Tingling time I first met David Mitchell in the altered his poetry and he returned to Catch’: A Century of New Zealand Auckland of the early 1970s. At the Wellington in 1964 somewhat ahead of Cricket Poems 1864-2009. time I was living in a run down hovel his time. Mitchell is survived by his two with fellow poet, , and a Throughout the ’60s and ’70s Mitchell daughters: Sara and Genevieve. rag-tag gaggle of other artistes, quickly established himself as a leading David’s presence will be missed. Like including Tony Fomison and ‘Mad’ poet on the New Zealand poetry scene Syd Barrett, the Pink Floyd founder, Mike Brosnan in our own version of (especially with the publication by who in some ways mirrored aspects of Desolation Row at Number 8 Margaret Stephen Chan and later Trevor Reeves David’s life towards the end: ‘his crazy Street, Ponsonby, and the Dylan song of his collection Pipe Dreams in diamond will shine on.’ Wish you were got played over and over as if we were Ponsonby (1972, 1975). In 1975, he here. trying to convince ourselves we were received the part of the song, ‘sniffing dream pipes / Memorial Fellowship to Menton in (Obituary written by Mark Pirie for the and reciting the alphabet’ no less. I was France. Mitchell was often the iconic Lampstand 2011 (Wellington College at art school at the time and was poet of the period, as wrote: Old Boys’ magazine). involved in DADA and Surrealism in ‘David was good with the girls, he More about David at his blog: thought, word and deed. looked good, he dressed well, he spoke davemitchellpoetry.blogspot.com). However, before I begin my own well…while people admired him I think memoir proper I will call on fellow they secretly envied him.’ writer David McGill to fill in some Throughout this time, he lived variously earlier memories of David Mitchell and across the Tasman (Sydney, Wellington the Beat Generation: and Auckland) and worked briefly in the Education Department in David Mitchell was the most Wellington in the mid 1970s. glamorous guy around Wellington Perhaps health issues and concerns or coffee bars in 1960. He was the local retreat from literary fame dogged much Jack Kerouac, talking incessantly of his life after the 1970s. His poetry about the need to experience output was seldom in print. However, everything before you wrote about it. I he worked as a teacher for 30 years, and was a young trainee teacher and in the 1980s co-founded the successful university student who sat at the poetry readings at the Globe in coffee tables where us groupies of Auckland (now continuing at various both sexes listened to Dave rave. He venues as Poetry Live), later completed was as full of juice as his mate James a BA at Victoria University, and he kept K Baxter, and way more attractive. He up his cricket interest playing club inspired me to write poetry, he cricket mostly for the Grafton Club until critiqued my fledgling efforts . . . why 2002. His biographers note: ‘Cricket Tributes to David not say ‘money’ instead of was poetry, David said.’ Mitchell ‘mammon’? I was proud that year to Despite publishing little, his poems be in the Teachers College poetry made their way into major Oxford and publication ‘Matika’, right alongside Penguin anthologies of New Zealand David Mitchell, Baxter above us. The A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF poetry as well as specialist anthologies next year I edited the poetry magazine DAVID MITCHELL by Michael like James Bertram’s New Zealand Love and David contributed magnificently. O’Leary Poems, Alistair ’s ‘open form’ He created a character called Croup 15 Contemporary New Zealand Poets, Botec we were all sure was destined to Alan Brunton, and And and T.S. Eliot be world famous, this beatnik Murray Edmond’s Big Smoke: New Fighting in the captain’s tower adventurer. David loved the American Zealand Poems 1960-75 as well as While calypso singers laugh at them Beat poets, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, but journals like Printout and Poetry NZ in And fisherman hold flowers most of all perhaps e e cummings, the 1990s. Between the windows of the sea who I think inspired his love of word Yet it wasn’t until 2010 when his Where lovely mermaids flow and sentence experimentation. He friends Martin Edmond and Nigel And nobody has to think too much wrote poems that were like modern Roberts put together his selected poems, About Desolation Row music, chopped up in crazy ways we Steal Away Boy: The Selected Poems of could only gasp at. We knew he had David Mitchell (Auckland University This quote from Bob Dylan’s famous the gift, not just of the gab, the gift of Press) that he again appeared in book epic anthem to ‘Bohemian’ high life and putting words memorably on paper. I form. That same year, in declining low life serves as a good lead in to the played centre outside his second five- health, he was also very happy to be eighth on the Kelburn footy ground.

4 ...... Poetry Archive David was even then almost blind, he would become known as ‘language their work in bookshops, bars and the would pass the ball behind me. Yet he poetry’ as a kind of side-stepping the like. Now, here in the 1980s, it was was a graceful and brilliant athlete, issues, also possibly rebelling against happening in Auckland and not an and the same poise he brought to the ‘meaning’ in Baxter’s academic poet to be seen. Perhaps they rugby and cricket . . . New Zealand overwhelming weltanschauung, followed Murray Edmond who, in Big cricket captain John Reid picked him Mitchell, and later myself, came at Smoke stated that New Zealand in the as one of the promising five players of social and political interests obliquely, 1960s had ‘no cities’. But even the year . . . that poise and grace and as in his ‘ponsonby/remuera/my lai’ and Hamilton, where he grew up, was a city, gravitas alongside a wild and risk- much later my own anti-Gulf War and those of us who grew up in taking libertine, a Byronic figure, it poem, ‘Make Love and War’. Auckland in the 1950s certainly made David Mitchell the most Fast forward a decade to the early 1980s considered that we lived a city life, as charismatic person of my student and I am back in Auckland after I’m sure did those from Wellington, years. – David McGill, Paekakariki, spending the last six years wavering Christchurch, and Dunedin, for 2011 between being a working class hero in example. To further the thoughts that Otago, working on the track-gang of occasioned Edmond’s derogatory Now, from the Beat Generation to the New Zealand Railways laying rails and assertion, that is Arthur Rimbaud’s ‘at Beatles Generation. I, of course, knew sleepers, and following my ‘bohemian’ dawn, armed with a burning patience, of Mitchell through his poetry readings dreams again with fellow poets and enter into the splendid cities’ I add a and his newly published and highly artists Peter Olds, Sandra Bell, Bryan quote from my own 1988 poem ‘Livin’ influential volume of poetry, Pipe Harold and Robin Swanney-McPherson, ina Aucklan’ thus: ‘Mount Albert is just Dreams in Ponsonby. I had attended a among others. John Lennon is dead, ‘the as important as Montmarte / If you live reading at the Barry Lett Gallery in dream is over’, or so we thought. But, there’. Victoria Street whence people had gone no! David Mitchell is running ‘Poetry In 1984 I set up my Earl of Seacliff Art to the Kiwi Hotel and then on to Barry’s Live’ at the Globe Tavern every Workshop publishing house, now well Mount Eden house to continue what Tuesday night, and the engines of documented in a well researched tome, was one of the frequent and never poetry are charging forth anew. Once a The Earl is in . . . 25 Years of the Earl ending parties in the artists’ scene of the week everything else in life is put on of Seacliff, edited by poet Mark Pirie. time. By this time we were all hold and the great driving force of the When I established it I had in mind two reasonably or unreasonably ‘out of it’ word, freed or otherwise, is set in previous 1960s institutions, Andy and David and myself and a few others motion by the Master of Ceremonies Warhol’s ‘Factory’, and The Beatles’ were discussing our experiences with himself, Mitchell the Marvel. And those Apple record label, both of which James K Baxter who had died a year or nights were magic! enabled the creative artists to have two earlier and who had influenced all Anybody who was anybody and/or control over their own output and to be of us in varying degrees, both as poets nobody was encouraged to out-do, out- as experimental as they wanted without and in our lifestyles. I remember getting wit, out-drink, out-pun each other, and being beholden to the whims of ready to leave and going to give David a when it was time to finish it was time to accountants and producers, or in my ‘Baxter bear hug’ by way of farewell, begin the party, wherever it was. Iain case publishers. In the mid-1980s I when I felt myself being flung across Sharp, Grant Duncan, Bob Orr, John discussed with David the possibility of the room, nearly exiting through an Pule – a whole new group of us were off publishing some of the work I knew he open window, followed by Mitchell’s into the night . . . one thing David had not previously published. menacing growl: ‘Don’t give me any of always used to have me on about was He was always enthusiastic, up until the that fucking hippie bullshit!’ the night I got up to read a rather long final commitment, then he would give This event, plus reading David’s ‘Pipe poem written in Spenserian stanzas. I some reason for not wanting to go Dreams’ gave me an insight into him as began with a serious grin, saying: ‘have ahead. At the time I just let it go, but I a man, but also affected my own we got time for an epic?’ David loved have since found out that this was the thinking as a poet. Since then, like this, and often greeted me with some experience of several other publishers Mitchell’s own work, nothing I have allusion to it thereafter. As a keen also. Maybe they were not all poems written has been overtly political or faux cricketer he also enjoyed the fact that I that had ‘been read aloud in public?’ I revolutionary à la Brunton et al, had written a novel about the game remember one conversation with David although everything I write is highly called Out of It in the 1980s. that we had in a coffee bar in Auckland charged with meaning or is symbolic of One thing always puzzled me in relation in the 1980s. We were discussing what I really mean. Unlike the academic to the Globe Readings. When I studied writing poems and he said that it was poets (the Ezra Pounds and T.S. Eliots, English One at Auckland University in often the length of a page determined the Imagists and the Modernists, to wit) the early 1970s the likes of Roger the length of a poem. Since then I have of the day, Haley, Edmond, Horrocks, Horrocks and Wystan Curnow would thought about this when writing a poem, Curnow (Wystan), and later Manhire, return from overseas, San Francisco or and also how it must have affected who sought to deliberately deprive their New York usually, enthusing over the David’s own writing. work of meaning in the search for what poetry ‘scene’, how actual poets read

...... 5 Winter 2011 The last few times I saw David Mitchell Nō reira, haere ra, e rangatira ō ngā perhaps the tea cart or the dinner gong? was in the early years of the new kupu a visit from a friend, a bit of hot gossip millennium and it was quite distressing Haere, haere, haere . . . what the papers say – or don’t – about to see the state he was in. It was tragic the role of poets in Woman’s Day. to see this vigorous, intelligent, Michael O’Leary is a Paekakariki- inventive man become prey to a wasting based bookseller, writer and performer I should pay more attention I suppose. disease that would in June 2011 claim who recently completed a PhD on NZ It’s not that I’m losing interest – his life. It was a great thing that last women’s writing from 1945-1970 at the comings and goings have their year, 2010, his friends Martin Edmond Victoria University of Wellington’s attentions and Nigel Roberts put together a book Women Studies Department. Michael is ghosts to consider and to surrender. of David’s selected poems, Steal Away also the co-founder of PANZA. Boy. David Mitchell leaves a legacy to Who knows what is waiting; New Zealand literature of, not only his (Michael’s article first appeared on whether in the skyscrapers of Sydney own innovative style of writing and Beattie’s Book Blog, 29 June 2011) the clouds or waves of Darling Harbour personality, but also a feeling of or last sweeps, squeaks and bleeps of comradeship, generosity and aroha day? towards his fellow poets, something THE DAY ROOM by Ron Riddell which is often lacking in today’s literary Let the sirens wail; jets drone overhead – climate. I will finish with a sonnet that I for David Mitchell say I’m content as I’ll ever be wrote for David after seeing him in the day room that keeps its promises walking dazed and confused along I’m dropping off again, but waking to where I rise and fly on wings of poetry. Wellington’s Oriental Parade in 2002: the view waiting in the day room, for what, for Ron Riddell is a painter, musician and who? the author of a number of plays and THE MIND OF ‘MY LAI’ a man with a walking stick, another novels, he has published 21 collections REVISITS DA KAPITAL with a bag – of verse. His verse collection, Leaves of

a flower, a book, a bunch of fruit. Light, was awarded The House of So this is what happens to our poets, Poetry International Poetry Award for neat Waiting and waking, always the same 2005. His latest verse collection is Soft-shoe shuffling along Oriental view: entitled The Oracle of Alexandria Parade a bird bath, a plot of roses, a bench or (2009). At present, he lives between The internal massacre is about complete two – New Zealand and Colombia. Whilst As a handshake equals a kind of charade once more there are no visitors, only the better known as a poet, he now divides

light his writing time between fiction and ‘David’, I say, and then repeat my own that comes and goes under the door poetry. More information at his name website: www.ronriddell.com Over and over in an attempt to get a soft breeze, a dove cooing from the through garden. But your semi-toothless grin and the Once in a while, out of the light emerge insane figures in white, so like the company of Classic New Zealand Grimace, you are not here at all, but it is angels – poetry you darlings that drift in and out of the day

room – Like a sad combination reminiscent of This issue’s classic New Zealand poems Groucho my haven and my life – where pages And Harpo in one, without the humour, are by New Zealand-born writer, idly flap Reginald (Rex) Hunter (1889-1960). your spirit by an open window – the wind my part– Seems to have deserted you. But, ouch, Hunter left New Zealand as a young time man in 1914. He travelled to Australia I know reader leafs through the sunlit sheets. Donna Awatere becomes yr Remuera and through the Pacific and then worked So, we’re here, waiting for the moment. as a journalist in America, where he met hsfrau, is it? famous American writers like Ben We’re here in the green room, cream or Achtung, Baby, Babi Yr an’ all aside Hecht and Carl Sandburg in Chicago is it blue? and briefly married the South Carolina p.s. the ships look beautiful as they With the TV cricket no-one watches; poet Gamel Woolsey. They separated, glide . . . mood music from the foyer passing but never divorced. He also lived in awaiting the moment of Great Kansas City, San Francisco and New

Awakening – York and was a successful dramatist.

6 ...... Poetry Archive A biographical novel, Henry Whitaker, White rose of the unworldly held star- of the oak tree detailing his experiences with Carl lifted take this leaf Sandburg remains unpublished along The vision of him whose outward steps as token with a prose work The Gull. trod mire. Hunter published his poetry in Though thin his coat he did not feel the with no breath left periodicals and several books of poetry cold: to speak with appeared in his lifetime and The undying rose of poesy was his fire. we’ll lie silent posthumously: And Tomorrow Comes together (1924, new edition, 1982), the yet we’ll know autobiographical narrative The Saga of VAUDEVILLE when it rains Sinclair (1927, new edition 1981) and in the world Call Out of Darkness (1946). A well- Now while the city – overhead received novel Porlock (1940) about a That old unsleeping dragon – by the damp Greenwich Village character and a book Still lifts its head and roars, in our bones of four one-act plays Stuff O’ Dreams And belches flames upon the evening and though (1919, new editions 2010 and 2011) sky, nothing be said were also published. I, walker of pavements, In 1949, Hunter returned to New Rider under ground, we will know Zealand to settle in Dunedin until his The new Ixion, bound to a turning when the sun death. An obituary appeared in Arena wheel pours his gold 53 (1960), and a further biographical Of nights and days, will rays on the earth piece, Passages in the Life of Reginald Sing the glories of your tawdry by the warmth Hunter by Kenneth Hopkins (the editor Paradise, O Vaudeville! seeping down of the new editions of his poetry) was published in the UK in 1985. Harvey (Mad! mad! the old man mutters, we will know McQueen and Roger Robinson also co- Turning the leaves the world’s weather wrote an entry on him for the Oxford Of a book of long-dead poets when our bones Companion to New Zealand Literature Lying upon his knees; lie together (1998). Why does he not sing of mermaids and though with no breath PANZA recognises Hunter as a Roses, the sea and nightingales, for speaking significant and still largely Even as these?) no words unrecognised New Zealand poet. can be said. The following selection gives a I celebrate your tawdry spangled sampling of Hunter’s voice. As Lloyd Glories, Vaudeville. Emerson Siberell wrote in the foreword Have you not been to me an anodyne SKATERS to Hunter’s Call Out of Darkness: ‘A When Time’s yoke galled my back? genuine poet should always possess a How often have I turned in from the They come when the cold comes fervour and heightened awareness for street And with the cold go; seizing beauty on the wing and To seek your shrine fantastic, and forget Boon steel-shod companions translating it into subtle word pictures Reality, whose heavy laden boots Of frost and of snow. and impressions with laconic and Went by outside unheeded! succinct artistry. This is a quality Therefore I thank you, as one who Whirling, circling on gleaming ice manifested to the highest possible going How gallantly they fly – degree in the poems that follow.’ To a fair seeking jewels, and finding The bright, the brief, the beautiful – At close of day he’d gone on a fool’s Against a winter sky. Poems by Reginald Hunter errand Accepts from out life’s pack THE TWO ROSES A few cheap glittering fairings WHAT COMES AFTER thankfully. And as the poet walked the wintry Lady, if I remain remote streets It is because I know, alas! In broken shoes, and lacking coins for UNDER THE EARTH What comes after. bread, Do not long gray days follow A red rose flew its flame within his under the earth The rose days of love and laughter? heart, when the last word Behind the wood of dreams A white rose raised its petals in his has been spoken I hear the black hounds bay, head. I will meet you The hounds of disillusion at the roots That come back with the day.

...... 7 Winter 2011 Lovely, your lustrous eyes, He had a brother and two sisters. His Pirie’s collection The Search (ESAW, Your breasts of snow; sister, Elizabeth, was a singer with the 2007) and the character, The Busker Lovely the burnished hair, Melody Maids. After school, Adams (based on Adams), is in Pirie’s 2009 The mouth’s red bow. completed an MA at the University of verse novel TOM. But, lovely lady, too well I know Southern California in 1969 and wrote PANZA extends their condolences and What comes after. songs in Nashville, Los Angeles and sympathy to John’s family in the States Houston, before arriving in New and friends in New Zealand. All who Zealand in the early 1990s. Adams knew John will continue to remember CALL OUT OF DARKNESS performed in Wellington, Christchurch his spirited performances. A memorial and other parts of New Zealand but service was held at Wilson Funeral Run with me once again into the lived mainly in Wellington. Home in Adelaide Road, Newtown, morning sunlight – He was nicknamed ‘Kenny’ for his Wellington, on July 6, 2011. A possible You with the shining hair and the resemblance to country singer Kenny plaque of ‘Kenny’ may be displayed in laughing eyes; Rogers and was a favourite and well- the Courtenay Quarter sometime in the Let me hear the beat of your quick light liked performer to regular night-goers future. feet around Courtenay Place, Wellington. Here’s some of Adams’s Christian Again ere the sunlight dies. Adams was a Christian and recorded a poems transcribed from his CD Kenny: poetry CD at Bus Tunnel Studios, For I’ve had bad dreams, I dreamed that produced by Mark G. Hayes, called Poems by John d’Estaing Adams the world was shattered Kenny (2001). He sold the CD on the By gun-fire and sudden death screaming street. DON’T QUIT out of the skies. Adams’s poems had integrity and a Run once more beside me, so I can concern for personal fulfilment, God, Demons will damn you believe in sunlight freedom and social justice. Some of his for daring to do your duty, And dream that the dreams were lies. titles were ‘Persistence’, ‘There’s Power but don’t be deflected in Setting a Goal’ and ‘Take Courage – from your divine destiny. Poems © Reginald Hunter, 1946 Don’t Fear’. A copy of his CD is in the Poetry Archive. Doubt not, dread not, (From Call Out of Darkness, The As a performer, Adams had a repertoire nor be dismayed – Auburncrest Library, USA, 1946) that included his own poetry like ‘Don’t only believe; nothing should Quit’, classic poetry, and well-known be impossible with God. country songs like ‘The Gambler’ and American-born NZ ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’. His roots were Try again, don’t quit. firmly in Texas, USA. Quit wavering, it will yield. busker and poet dies His knowledge of classic English and I’ve lived long enough to know American poetry was vast. He recited your problems will yield poems from memory in return for coinage. As such, his ability to if you just don’t quit. remember poems is reminiscent of If you quit, no one can iconic New Zealand performer, Sam help you. Not even God Hunt. Among his favourite poems were can help a coward. Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’, ’s ‘The Destruction of But, if you keep going, Sennacherib’, Kipling’s ‘If’, the good Lord, Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ and poems by the good people American poets like Whittier and will put a hero over. Longfellow. Adams kept a list of poems next to his Make sure you’re guitar case that people could choose. It doing the right thing. The Dominion Post recently reported was an aspect of his performance that But, if you are: the death (from a brain tumour on June became increasingly important to him Don’t quit, don’t quit. 6) of well-known Wellington street when the city council eventually entertainer and poet, John d’Estaing confiscated his amplifier in the late ‘90s Adams, aged 64, also known as after complaints from inner-city MAIDEN’S PRAYER ‘Kenny’. apartment dwellers about noise. Adams (1946-2011) was born in the Adams also made his way into local Lord, you’ve made me luscious, United States. He grew up in Southeast literature. A poem about Adams, beautiful to touch and see. Texas on his family ranch in Beaumont. ‘Kenny’, is in PANZA member Mark 8 ...... Poetry Archive Please don’t let some lying boy the suburb of Newtown, Wellington, programme opened with a tu oro talk me in to giving away about an eight-storey hill, seven or (traditional welcome) by elder Ngarima your riches for free. eight-storey… I could see the harbour, George, after which all the guests were and I could see over to the Cook Strait led into the museum. Further opening Keep me from deception, open my and see the ferry. Quite a lovely sight on remarks were given by Richard eyes to thy perfect partner a beautiful day. Wachter, President of the Society of the and man for my life. I reckon the credit is sort of like, well Cook Islands Library and Museum. He … if you take the credit, you get a bullet spoke about how proud and happy they Preserve me, O God, in the back. If you keep on taking the were to be able to acknowledge the from my foolishness and his, credit, you get the bullets coming from great contribution Alistair had made to and lead me to fulfillment all sides. So the best way to handle it is the world of literature. He noted that the in my right man’s kiss. to take a sip of the credit, it’s library and museum now housed wonderful, refreshing, but then hand it Alistair’s books and many other O don’t let me miss over to someone else before it turns to artefacts associated with his life and my right man’s kiss. poison, because there’s a bullet that work, such as photos, letters and goes with the credit. notebooks. Mary and Josie, Alistair’s daughters, THERE’S A BULLET THAT GOES read some of his poems and also WITH THE CREDIT Comment on the presented a musical tribute to their father. Don’t be too eager Alistair Te Ariki After the Campbell daughters’ to hold all the credit presentation, I read two of Alistair’s for others to acknowledge Campbell Exhibition – poems, reflecting the agony and that you said or did it. devastation of war, along with a poem I Cook Islands wrote for Alistair that looks at his Give the glory to someone journey from the Cook Islands to who can truly profit from it, Aotearoa New Zealand and the light he who needs encouragement THE DARK LORD OF SAVAIKI shed on those two worlds through his to climb their hill work. or to reach their summit. (I am the one in your dreams, master My contribution was followed by a of passion, favourite child of Tumu performance from a wonderful Cook If no one else give it to God. and Papauri) Island solo dancer, who transported the He really deserves it world of words into the movement of and he doesn’t get much credit Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Exhibition dance. nowadays… – The Cook Islands The Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Exhibition will run for a month in the But taking the credit’s like deadly Report by L E Scott Cook Islands. It was a wonderful poison. experience for me to have been part of My advice is don’t drink it. the celebration in his adopted land of You see Mankind’s so jealous Aotearoa New Zealand and then again and full of the devil in the land of his birth, The Cook that he’ll target anyone Islands. who rises above level. Lewis Scott is a Wellington-based jazz So don’t be too eager, poet and performer. He currently don’t be too eager to hold all the credit. organises the popular poetry reading Judgement Day will remember it, series at the Ballroom Café in Newtown, they will, they’ll remember it. th Wellington. His recent poetry book is On the 15 of July 2011, as a result of Speaking in Tongues (HeadworX, So now you can forget it. an invitation from the Campbell family 2007). No – you don’t want the bullet and the Cook Islands Library and that goes with the credit. Museum Society, I participated in the (Lewis’s report first appeared on And there’s a bullet Cook Islands celebration for one of their Beattie’s Book Blog, 18 August 2011) that goes with the credit. most gifted sons, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. Author’s Note: This poem came to me It was a wonderful celebration of the very quickly as I was sitting on a hill in life and works of this great poet. The

...... 9 Winter 2011 Matthews was born in Virginia and In total 177 books were donated. The Dunedin poet Larry educated at Kings Park/Kings Glen oldest donated title was Alexander and Matthews dies Elementary School and Lake Braddock Currie’s selection of 19th century Secondary School in the States. He poetry, New Zealand Verse, 1906, completed his tertiary studies at George published in London. Most of the books Washington University, Virginia were recent volumes and published by Commonwealth University (BFA leading NZ poetry publishers: Steele 1983) and the Roberts, HeadworX, VUP, Sudden (MCApSc 2003). He was also a Valley Press, Hazard Press, Seraph Quaker. Press and Earl of Seacliff Art Matthews worked first at the Workshop. Smithsonian Institution’s National Books by well-known New Zealand Zoological Park as an exhibit designer, poets like , Kevin Ireland, before moving to New Zealand in 1993 Glenn Colquhoun, Gregory O’Brien, where, as an educator, he taught at the , Alistair Paterson, The American-born Dunedin Wanganui School of Design and later in Vincent O’Sullivan, , artist/designer/writer/educator/magician the University of Otago’s Design David Eggleton, Meg Campbell and Larry Matthews (1961-2011) has died Studies department as a Senior Alistair Te Ariki Campbell were among aged 50. Matthews was known for his Teaching Fellow. the donations. ability to relate to people across Matthews will be missed by all those Here is a full list of the titles donated: generations and was a valued member who knew him. PANZA would like to of the Dunedin arts and writing offer their condolences to Larry’s HARVEY MCQUEEN COLLECTION community. friends and family. and POETRY ARCHIVE OF NZ He owned and ran {lanyop} lagniappe The Octagon Poetry Collective on July AOTEAROA COLLECTION of NZ small art gallery and espresso cafe in 13 at Circadian Rhythm in Dunedin POETRY donations made to the George Street, Dunedin. The gallery held a memorial poetry reading for POETRY LIBRARY July 2011 opened at night by candlelight and he Larry (and young poet Rhys played piano as background music to Brookbanks killed in the February the exhibits. As Matthews himself Christchurch earthquake) to celebrate BOX 1 stated in a 2010 Critic interview on his and remember their contribution to art gallery: “The notion of the Inner Dunedin poets and poetry. Harvey McQueen, The New Place Light (that I believe everyone carries anthology within them) is expressed outwardly - Oasis Motel by the candle and the artwork itself Donations of NZ - Stoat becomes a tangible representation of - Pingandy: New and Selected Poems the Inner Light of the artist. This poetry made to the - Against the Maelstrom ‘mystical experience’ is then a direct - (2 copies) communication of the viewer and the Poetry Library, Tony Beyer, The Century art through that Light.” Basim Furat, No Boat May Allow Matthews exhibited artwork in America London Drowning to Vanish and New Zealand and his writing Moshé Liba, The estuary of Komo - Over the Waters appeared in various New Zealand poetry PANZA is pleased to announce that journals and newspapers, including Harry Ricketts, Nothing to Declare: they have donated the following titles to Selected Writings 1977-1997 JAAM, Glottis, Takahe, Black Mail the Poetry Library in London during Press, and the Otago Daily - Coming Here July 2011. Michael O’Leary, Livin ina Aucklan Times. A majority of the books donated were In 2008, Matthews published his sole - Make Love and War – lending copy from the late Harvey McQueen’s Richard von Sturmer, Suchness collection of poetry, Once Happy as collection given to PANZA, and others Larry, through his Lagniappe Book Arts Paul Hardacre, The year nothing are from PANZA’s own collection Scott Kendrick, Rhyme before reason imprint. He also collaborated with where there were duplicate copies of Jenny Powell on her collection Double- Yilma Tafere Tasew, Thank you, thank some titles available. It’s great to be you! Vol 1. Jointed with nine others in 2003. He has sending them to the prestige Poetry more unpublished work written in Iain Sharp, The Singing Harp Library where they will be well looked Stephen Oliver, Earthbound Mirrors collaboration with Dunedin poet Cy after in the future. Mathews. - Election year blues PANZA hopes this donation will lead to - Harmonic further interest in New Zealand poetry. - Ballads, Satire and Salt - Unmanned

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Poetry Archive Tim Jones, Boat People Gregory O’Brien, afternoon of an Stu Bagby, as it was in the beginning Helen Rickerby, abstract internal evening train Various, Big Sky: A Collection of furniture - Winter I Was Canterbury Poems Robin Fry, daymoon - Location of the least person Pat White, Drought and other intimacies Niel Wright, Only a bullet will stop me Riemke Ensing, Talking Pictures: - Cut across the grain now (2 copies) selected poems – lending copy Laura Solomon, in vitro – lending copy -Wellington Panorama (in 4 volumes David Patterson, Up over Alpha Charles Doyle, Messages for Herod set) Jonathan Fisher, The sun is darker Alan Loney, Missing Parts Andrew Fagan, Take the chocolates and Jenny Bornholdt, Summer Bub Bridger, Up here on the hill run - These days - Wild Daisies: Best of Bub Bridger - Overnight downpour , Cup , You’re very Leonard Lambert, Natural Anthem Anna Smaill, The Violinist in Spring seductive - Skywire Vincent O’Sullivan, Seeing you asked Tony Beyer, The Singing Ground Mark Pirie, London Notebook – lending David Mitchell, Pipe dreams in Martha Morseth, staying inside the lines copy Ponsonby Hugh Lauder, Over the white wall - Wellington Fool Glenn Colquhoun, How we fell Simon Williamson, 25 cars - Slips: cricket poems Tim Upperton, A house on fire Gordon Challis, Building - Poems for Poets Janet Charman, 2 deaths in 1 night Harvey McQueen, Goya Rules - No Joke – lending copy David Eggleton, Rhyming Planet Vivienne Plumb, Salamanca - Dumber – lending copy , Shebang: Collected Peter Olds, Music Therapy - Bookmarks: anthology Poems 1980-2000 , Changing Countries - Poetrywall: anthology Jack Ross, Chantal’s Book Rosalie Carey, Winterless North - Poetrymath: anthology Roma Potiki, Shaking the tree Laura Ranger, Laura’s Poems - Voyagers: SF poetry anthology (with Noel Ginn, Dweller on the threshold Hubert Witheford, A Native, Perhaps Tim Jones) – lending copy Jan FitzGerald, Flying against the Beautiful - The NeXt Wave: anthology – lending arrow - The Falcon Mask copy Julie Liebrich, Land below the waves Gary McCormick, Zephyr - TOM – lending copy Kate Camp, Beauty Sleep Helen Jacobs, This cording, this artery , The Dark Lord of Kevin Ireland, Walking the land Charles Doyle, Recent Poetry in NZ Savaiki: sequence James McNaughton, I want more sugar anthology Kerry Popplewell, Leaving the Vincent O’Sullivan, Revenants Tableland Denis Glover, Wellington Harbour BOX 2 Douglas Wright, Laughing Mirror - Sharp edge up: verses and satires James Bertram, New Zealand Love Vivienne Plumb, Nefarious Poems anthology - Scarab BOX 3 Various, New Zealand Verse 1906 Meg Campbell, Resistance – 2 copies anthology - Orpheus Mark Pirie, Shoot – lending copy Gloria Rawlinson, The Perfume Vendor Various, First Wgtn Intl Poetry Festival Louis Johnson, Fires and Patterns Michael N. Rhodes, Lines written in a anthology - broadsheet No. 2 Louis Johnson issue mental hospital L E Scott, A day in history anthology Barbara Strang, The Corrosion Zone – Amelia Herrero-Kidman, Pages for the - Earth Colours: Selected Poems 2 copies stage - Speaking in Tongues Alistair Paterson, Qu’appelle Various, Tiger Words: Paekakariki Bernard Gadd, Our bay of ensigns - Caves in the Hills Poets at Pukapuka - End of the snapshots: selected poems - Summer on the Côte d’Azur – lending John Ellis, Loud Quiet Song - Oracle Bones copy Terry Locke, Maketu Niel Wright, The Pop Artist’s Garland: Alistair Paterson, Africa//Kabbo Mantis Selected Poems 1952-2009 – lending BOX 4 and the Porcupine’s daughter copy - Summer on the Côte d’Azur Tim Jones, All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens John O’Connor, Cornelius & Co.: Alistair Campbell, Kapiti: selected Michael O’Leary, Toku Tinihanga: Collected Working Class Verse (2 poems Selected Poems 1982-2002 – lending copies) Jenny Powell, Hats copy - Parts of the moon: selected haiku and - Four French Horns L E Scott, Earth Colours: Selected senryu 1988-2007 Tony Chad, Self-titled Poems – lending copy - Working Voices (with Eric Mould) Laura Solomon, in vitro Tony Beyer, Dream Boat: Selected Simon Williamson, 25 cars – lending Poems – lending copy copy ...... 11 Winter 2011 Helen Rickerby, My Iron Spine (2 You can assist the preservation of NZ copies) About the Poetry poetry by becoming one of the Jenny Powell,Viet Nam Archive Friends of the Poetry Archive of New - Four French Horns – lending copy Zealand Aotearoa (PANZA ). - Locating the Madonna (with Anna If you’d like to become a friend or Jackson) (2 copies) Poetry Archive of New Zealand business sponsor of PANZA, please Bernard Gadd, Pokeno Opposes the Aotearoa (PANZA) contact us. Kaiser - Debating Stones PANZA contains Contact Details Vivienne Plumb, Crumple (2 copies) Poetry Archive of NZ Aotearoa - Scarab – lending copy A unique Archive of NZ published (PANZA) - Nefarious – lending copy poetry, with around five thousand titles 1 Woburn Road, Northland, Wellington Tim Jones, All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens from the 19th century to the present PO Box 6637, Marion Square, – lending copy day. Wellington - Boat People – lending copy The Archive also contains photos and Dr Niel Wright - Archivist Basim Furat, No Boat May Allow paintings of NZ poets, publisher’s (04) 475 8042 Drowning to Vanish – lending copy catalogues, poetry ephemera, posters, Dr Michael O’Leary - Archivist - Here and There – lending copy reproductions of book covers and other (04) 905 7978 Tony Beyer, The Singing Ground – memorabilia related to NZ poetry and email: [email protected] lending copy poetry performance. 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