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Spring 2013, Volume 4, Issue 3 . Poetry Notes Spring 2013 Volume 4, Issue 3 ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA She was a notable horsewoman in her Inside this Issue Welcome young years and her poetry shows an intimacy with the natural world. Her Hello and welcome to issue 15 of poetry was written between the ages 61 Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, and 79, and seems to have been 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of triggered by WWI, notably Gallipoli. Niel Wright on Kate New Zealand Aotearoa. Gerard (1855-1934) Poetry Notes will be published quarterly Kate Gerard’s Biography and and will include information about Family Background Classic New Zealand goings on at the Archive, articles on poetry by James H historical New Zealand poets of interest, An Obituary of Kate Gerard is given in 4 Sutherland occasional poems by invited poets and a Christchurch [= Lyttelton] Times, record of recently received donations to November 30, 1934 (according to a Comment on Donald H the Archive. clipping stuck in the Turnbull copy of 6 Lea by Mark Pirie Articles and poems are copyright in the The Call of the Light, Volume 8, 1933, names of the individual authors. as follows: A tribute to S G August The newsletter will be available for free 9 download from the Poetry Archive’s LATE MISS K. GERARD. website: In the death of Miss Kate Gerard, Comment on William which occurred yesterday morning, Taylor http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com the Fendalton district has lost one of 11 its oldest and best known residents. Comment on H Farrington Miss Gerard, who lived with a 12 Niel Wright on younger sister, Miss Rose Gerard, at Comment on Chapbook Willowbrook, 173 Fendalton Road, Kate Gerard was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Gerard, of Snowden Vincent O’Sullivan Hororata. appointed NZ Poet Laureate 13 Wellington writer and publisher, She lived in the Fendalton parish for Niel Wright discusses the early 20th the last fifty-five years. Donate to PANZA through century Christchurch poet Kate Gerard. As a young girl, Miss Gerard was a PayPal wonderful horsewoman and was a This year, I spent a fortnight at the well-known figure at hunt meetings in Recently received National Library reading the poetry of Canterbury. donations Kate Gerard (1855-1934). St Barnabas Church and Sunday If she was a painter she would be called School at Fendalton owe much to her a primitive, but she is a poet, one might About the Poetry Archive generosity. Only within the last few think just a religious poet, but in fact years had she given up her class of she writes epic narrative, only one piece boys at the Sunday school. PANZA on a specific bible figure Jacob. The rest During the war years she did all in her PO Box 6637 is about historical figures or importantly power to help the men who enlisted Marion Square a family chronicle. from the Fendalton parish, and in later Wellington 6141 . Spring 2013 years she was a frequent visitor to Jim McAloon’s analysis of the origins Kate Gerard’s Poetry Rannerdale Home. of the “southern gentry” reveals that Miss Gerard is survived by her sister, powerful Canterbury names could I return to the subject of her poetry now Miss Rose Gerard, and by a brother, belong to lower-middle-class that access with the completion of Mr George Gerard, the present owner individuals who, like many building alterations is again available to of Snowden Station. The late Mrs pastoralists, moved up in the colonies the Turnbull Library holdings of Kate George Rutherford and the late Mrs “with more talent than means”… Gerard’s books. Murray Aynesley were also her William Gerard was the son of a small The Turnbull Library has 12 of Kate sisters. farmer who [ambiguous but Gerard’s books plus a couple of apparently William] managed a duplicates, but the Turnbull does not So far no record of date of birth for Kate property [Cheviot Hills?] before have The Call of the Light, Volume III, Gerard has been found in New Zealand taking up Snowdon (the parent nor any other library. The Turnbull or English records, and records have yet property to Double Hill). copies have been hard bound by the to be turned up for the arrival of the Double Hill was offered for sale by library. The Macmillan Brown library William Gerard family in New Zealand auction in January 1874 but did not has three of her books, and Canterbury or from wherever. It is believed books reach its reserve price of pounds University Library a fourth. No other on Canterbury runholders should 26,000, and so Palmer sold Double libraries report holdings. illuminate (see below). Whether the Hill privately to William Gerard of The titles of Kate Gerard’s 12 books of Annie in the burial records is one of her Snowdon with 30,000 sheep and poetry suggest that she was religious but married sisters or a Rose by another 114,500 acres for pounds 20,000. interested in horses. In her long life name has yet to be determined. Gerard died in 1897 [sic] with 1855-1934 it appears her books were I told a friend my assessment that her ownership going to his son who held written and published in the last 18 father owned the Snowden Station when Double Hill country in its entirety till years of her life 1916-1934. rural landholdings in New Zealand were 1911 and 1912… The appearance is that Kate Gerard immense. I was able to validate this wrote her poetry between the ages of 61 statement by doing a Google search for On the evidence of these accounts Kate and 79. South Canterbury runholder William Gerard born in 1855 was not born at One has to say she is a demotic poet, Gerard which brought up a passage Snowden Station. Whether she was born her main reading or book knowledge from a 2007 book called Historic at Cheviot Hills or elsewhere, who doesn’t go beyond the Bible, but she is Heritage of High-Country Pastoralism: knows? not ill prepared or lacking in skill for South Island Up to 1948, 4.2.6 Flocks, Christchurch founded in 1850 to exploit what she does which is compile a where a sentence read the sheep farming potential of the corpus of epic narrative poems often Canterbury plains, had a port at once at lyrical and dramatic in form. William Gerard had 30,000 sheep at Lyttelton, to which a rail tunnel was Most of Kate Gerard’s poems are Double Hill and 21,000 at Snowdon opened in 1867. Beginning in 1863 by individually dated at the end. In some of [sic]… 1879 railway lines were extensive in the Kate Gerard’s later books the text ends South Island, in effect providing railway with a colophon consisting of her name Another Google search for William sidings virtually to every farm gate, for and a date. A date of publication rarely Gerard at Double Hill brought up instance at Coalgate ten miles from appears, with the result that passages in a book called Calling the Hororata. I haven’t checked out specific bibliographical dates of publication can Station Home: Place and Identity in historical details, but in effect by 1880 vary perhaps without significance. The New Zealand High Country by Michèle rural runholders could build town colophon date seems the best to use, but D Dominy, 2001, from which I quote as residences (eventual mansions) in the records no doubt are too confused to following: Christchurch, say Fendalton, and get bother much. from their rural estates to their town Kate Gerard’s lyrics are short often William Gerard (1822-1898), residences by rail and buggy within an dramatic, with a strong focus, but read according to MacDonald and hour or two. I lived in this environment in bulk they are tedious in spite of many McAloon managed Cheviot Hills, and in my childhood and youth, when delicate touches. However the lyrics his home was the first to be built there however the motorcar provided ready both underlie and augment the – part cob and part wattle and daub, transport. narratives. Several of her longer poems with ten rooms and a veranda on three It is said that Kate Gerard lived in the are not narrative but discursive as a sides; Mrs Gerard kept three maids Fendalton parish for 55 years, ie 1880- series of lyrics. and many passers-through had to be 1934, so from the age of 25. But she Her narratives by contrast are decidedly attended to. Gerard’s holdings were could long thereafter have had access to long, usually dramatic, but they are extraordinary beginning with the Gerard runholdings readily enough. swift moving, with frequent shifts of Snowdon [sic] in 1866 and eventually focus by means of neat transitions as encompassing almost all of the she plays with imagery. Her narratives Rakaia’s north and south banks. are significantly readable. 2 . Poetry Archive Kate Gerard uses formulaic phraseology There is only one Biblical character on append it at the end of this essay). repeatedly but not without intelligent whom Kate Gerard writes a long Gerard seems to have been motivated to variations. For people with an narrative poem. This is Jacob. poeticise in 1916 by war casualties. acquaintance with oral narrative poetry In the case of Jacob he is the Biblical Thereafter she issued annual booklets of her performance is interesting and figure she dreams about in short poems often lyrical for eight impressive as a comparable exercise by Jacob, The Destiny for All Nations issues, but progressively including a literate poet.
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