. . . Poetry Notes

Spring 2014 Volume 5, Issue 3

ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA

Zealand. She was included in a Inside this Issue Welcome bibliography of legends/myths for her collection Māori Love Legends Hello and welcome to issue 19 of published after the First World War in Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, 1920. 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of As with some other poets profiled Mark Pirie on Marieda Aotearoa. recently in Poetry Notes, Batten does Batten (1875-1933) Poetry Notes will be published quarterly not appear in any New Zealand and will include information about anthology that I’m aware of, but she is Classic New Zealand goings on at the Archive, articles on listed with other New Zealand poets of poetry by Noeline historical New Zealand poets of interest, this period in 6 Gannaway occasional poems by invited poets and a Authors’ Week 1936: Annals of New record of recently received donations to Zealand Literature: being a List of New Comment on Travis the Archive. Zealand Authors and their works with Wilson (1924-1983) 7 Articles and poems are copyright in the introductory essays and verses, page 40: names of the individual authors. National Poetry Day poem: “Batten, Ida Marieda (Mrs Cook [sic]). The newsletter will be available for free 1915, Star dust and sea foam (v); 9 Jean Batten download from the Poetry Archive’s c1918, Love-life (v); 1920, Maori love website: legends (v); 1925, Silver nights (v).” Tribute to Warren Dibble Marieda Batten appears with the New 10 http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com Zealand poets Jessie Mackay, Alan E. Comment on Essential Mulgan and Dora Wilcox in the UK New Zealand Poems anthology, From Overseas: An Mark Pirie on Marieda Anthology of Contemporary Dominion Launch report: World Cup and Colonial Verse (London: Merton 11 football poetry Batten Press, [1924]). This book includes poets from South , , New Zealand, Burma, India, Zimbabwe Polynesian Legends Wellington poet, publisher and literary (Rhodesia), Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Canada 12 success scholar Mark Pirie discusses the work and the West Indies. Batten’s poems in of Marieda Batten, aunt of famous New the book are ‘A Reflection’ and the two Donate to PANZA through Zealand aviator Jean Batten. sonnets: “Where have I strayed? To PayPal some mysterious land” and “My child? Marieda Batten is a significant woman By living flame my heart is burned”. Recently received poet of the period 1915-1930 which I The name ‘Marieda Batten’ (or her donations have spent considerable time married name of ‘Mrs A L Cooke’) researching over the past few years. About the Poetry Archive doesn’t appear in New Zealand Marieda’s name didn’t come to my Biographies at the National Library of attention until fairly recently when I New Zealand – so no obituary for her. PANZA was researching A. Stanley Sherratt’s Her name turns up in the National 1 Woburn Road Polynesian Legends sequence and the Library’s sheet music archive for Northland history of Māori myths and legends several songs: Hinemoa’s love song, Wellington 6012 published in English in Aotearoa/New Puta’s dancing song, When the yellow

...... Spring 2014 kowhai blooms, Unfold thy snowy 3. Māori love legends; 120p.; 23cm. State Library of New South Wales; pinions, Māori lullaby and Where the Wellington [N.Z.]: Harry H. Tombs, National Library of Australia; brooklet ripples (Māori love songs) [1920]. University of Melbourne Library; State (London, 1925). The music scores were 4. Silver nights; 51p.; 19cm. Auckland Library of ; and by William G. James. Yet, there is no [N.Z.]: Business Printing Works, Bankstown Campus Library, New South biography for her in the NZ Music [1925]. Wales, Australia. Biogaphies. 5. The teardop: A poem; 194 p.; 8º. Silver nights is in 17 libraries on A Tapuhi search returns no results, and London: Fowler Wright, [1929.]. WorldCat: New York Public Library; Batten does not appear in official The date given by the catalogue of 1947 HathiTrust Digital Library; Harvard literary histories of the 1990s. for Love-life is the date received by the University Library; University of PapersPast and Trove (Australia) Turnbull Library and J C Andersen Wisconsin – Madison Library; searches, however, bring up numerous gives the publication date as c1918, a University of California Los Angeles results for her name, showing she had date verified by book reviews in Library; University of Alberta Canada some standing and renown as a woman Australian and New Zealand Library; University of Edinburgh (UK) writer in her day and published in both newspapers in 1919 (cf Trove/Papers Library; Turnbull Library; National countries. Her connection with the Past). The date of 1925 for Silver nights Library of New Zealand; Victoria aviator Jean Batten, (her niece), was appears to be right yet the general University of Wellington Library; noted in an Australian newspaper article lending collection copy at the National University of Canterbury Library; (The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Library gives a date of 1920, however, Public Libraries; Hocken Wednesday 30 May 1934): newspaper reviews confirm the date of Library, University of ; University 1925. of Queensland Library; State Library of MISS JEAN BATTEN AUNT Library holdings (WorldCat) are as New South Wales Library; National A POETESS follows: Library of Australia; and State Library Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand Star dust and sea foam is in 8 libraries of Victoria. girl pilot, is not the first woman on WorldCat: Turnbull Library; The Teardop is in 6 libraries on member to distinguish the family National Library of New Zealand; WorldCat: Harvard University Library; name. Her father’s sister Miss Harvard University Library; University Trinity College Library Dublin; Marieda Batten, who in private life of Canterbury Library; Hocken Library, National Library of Scotland; is Mrs. Cook [sic], wife of a New ; and State Library University of Oxford; The British Zealand artist, is a poetess, and has of New South Wales; State Library of Library; and University of Cambridge. published several books. The flier’s Victoria; and National Library of Silver nights is available online as brother is on the screen, and is the Australia. digital reproductions of the original text. hero of the picture, “Under the Love-life: is in 7 libraries on WorldCat: The Teardop is the only book by Batten Greenwood Tree,” and has Turnbull Library; Hocken Library, not available in her homeland of New appeared in numerous English University of Otago; University of Zealand. Copyright copies were films. Canterbury Library; State Library of deposited with British libraries listed New South Wales; State Library of above. Dr Michael O’Leary’s PhD thesis on Victoria; University of Melbourne New Zealand women’s writing 1945-70, Library; and State Library of South gives a further reference to Jean Australia. Biography Batten’s sister-in-law being a writer. In Māori love legends: is in 25 libraries on fact her brother’s then wife of the ’30s WorldCat: Emory University Library, Some information can be found on was writer, Madeleine Murat. Atlanta, USA; University of Chicago Marieda’s early life. She was born in Library; Harvard University Library; England in the March quarter 1875 in University of Wisconsin – Madison Wokingham, Berkshire, and came to Batten’s Publications Library; Stanford University Libraries; New Zealand with her family from University of Alberta Canada Library; London aboard the vessel Loch Cree in Batten’s poetry publications are as University of Edinburgh (UK) Library; 1879 (Evening Post, English Shipping, follows (according to the National The British Library; Auckland 26 June 1879) with her sisters Helen G Library of New Zealand and the British Libraries; Massey University Library; and Isabella (sic) and had some Library catalogue [for The Teardrop]): Library; schooling in Wellington. 1. Star dust and sea foam: A book of University of Waikato Library; Waikato Her father was James William Batten verse [by I.M. Batten]; 75p.; 14cm. District Libraries; Turnbull Library; (1824?-14 July 1917) and her mother [Wellington, N.Z.]: Whitcombe & Museum of New Zealand Library; was Jane Gardner Batten (1850-12 July Tombs, [1915]. Porirua Public Library; University of 1917), daughter of a wealthy ship- 2. Love-life: A sonnet sequence; 38 p.; Canterbury Library; Dunedin Public owner. They had two sons born in New 17 cm. Melbourne: Australasian Libraries; Hocken Library, University Zealand: Frederick Harold Batten Authors’ Agency, [1947?]. of Otago; Invercargill City Libraries; (1879-1967) and Edgar Rigden Leopold

2 ...... Poetry Archive Batten (1884–1950). Edgar was born at Liardet-street, New Plymouth. MRS BATTEN Cambridge Terrace, Wellington. (Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVI, L.N.C.M. (London), J W Batten was listed as a ‘surveyor’ on Issue 10823, 21 January 1897) Formerly Pupil of W. H. Longhurst, the passenger list but appears not to Mus., Doc, Etc., Organist of have worked in that capacity on arrival A ‘Miss Batten’ appears in local Canterbury Cathedral, England, in New Zealand. No one knows what concerts (Orpheus Music Club, New HAS permanently settled in exactly he did but a New Zealand birth Plymouth Liedertafel and Amateur Gisborne, and. will be in attendance certificate for his son Edgar lists him as Opera Club) and socials as a pianist at Whinray’s Hall every Tuesday, a ‘gentleman’. Marieda’s mother, a regularly, and alongside her future Thursday, and Saturday afternoon, music tutor on arrival, appears to have husband Mr Cooke in 1897 at a Central from 1 to 5 o’clock, to receive supported the family: School concert (Taranaki Herald, 15 Parents or Guardians of Intending May 1897). ‘Mrs Batten’ also appears Pupils for PIANOFORTE, Mrs. J. W. Batten announces with her daughter at concerts. The VIOLIN, SINGING, THEORY, herself in our advertising columns Orpheus Society they were members of Etc. as an instructress in music, gave a rendering of Handel’s Messiah at (Poverty Bay Herald, 16 January 1906) including the pianoforte, guitar, and the Theatre Royal (Taranaki Herald, singing. Mrs. Batten is a pupil of Volume XLVI, Issue 11102, 17 Mrs Batten later taught at 260 Childers Dr. Longhurst, the well-known December 1897). The electoral rolls of Road. organist of Canterbury Cathedral, 1896-1897 give Marieda as a ‘professor A review of Marieda’s first book in the England, and has a most of music’. Poverty Bay Herald, 20 November complimentary testimonial from A search of the burial locator disc for 1915, notes that she was a former him as to her merits as a musician Marieda’s sister Isabel notes that she resident of Gisborne before 1915 (cf and teacher, also very flattering died in New Plymouth in 1892 and was 1914 Gisborne Roll). It’s clear from the letters from the parents of various 15 years old (born September quarter death notes on her parents in 1917 that pupils already instructed by her. 1876). the family had moved to Gisborne, (The Evening Post, Volume XXI, On 6 December 1898, Batten married where her brother Edgar, a dentist, lived Issue 38, 16 February 1881) Alexander Laird Cooke (1866?-1926), a at Pollen Street. jeweler of New Plymouth. Reports of Marieda’s parents’ death Searches for ‘Ida Batten’ in PapersPast appear in the Poverty Bay Herald and bring up references to her passing COOKE—BATTEN.—On Thames Star: freehand drawing at the Wellington December 6th, at Liardet-street, public schools drawing examination New Plymouth, by the Rev S. S. The death is announced of Mrs (representing Mt Cook Girls’ School) at Osborne, Ida Mary, eldest daughter Batten, who has been a much the School of Design (1887). There’s a of J. W. Batten, Esq., formerly of respected resident in Gisborne for a ‘Miss Batten’ at Newtown School Reading, Berks, England, to number of years. The deceased lady (1889), then passing Pupil Teacher Alexander Laird, fourth son of John was a talented musician and had exams (1891) and working as a Pupil Cooke, Esq., of Dunedin, New much success as a tutor. Of a quiet Teacher at Waitara (1893) then as a Zealand. and unassuming disposition Mrs teacher at Otaki School (1894) for the Batten endeared herself to a wide Wellington Education Board. Cooke was an artist/musician, a leader circle of friends, and much She appears to have arrived in New of local orchestras and a violinist of sympathy will be expressed with Plymouth to join her family around reputation. The couple were associated the daughter, Mrs Farr, with whom 1896 (cf Taranaki Roll 1896) working with St Andrew’s Church and had two the deceased lady has been residing as a music tutor with the Liardet Street children: Joan Erskine Cooke 1900- during the lengthy period Mrs school with her mother and sister: 1922 (died at 21 years on 27 February Batten had been in failing health. 1922) and Alison Cooke b.1902. They (Poverty Bay Herald, Volume MRS J. W. BATTEN, appear on the Taranaki Electoral Rolls XLIV, Issue 14348, 13 July 1917) ORGANIST of Liardet-street 1900-1911. Church, Teacher of Vocal and Marieda lived after Taranaki in We regret to report the death of Mr Instrumental Music, Theory, etc. Gisborne where Alexander was a and Mrs J. W. Batten, parents of has vacancies for a few more jeweler. Marieda’s sister Helen had our respected townsman, Mr E. R. pupils. married Arthur J Farr of Wanganui at L. Batten. Mr Batten, senr., reached MISS BATTEN is prepared to Te Aroha in 1903 and settled in a very old age, being 93 at the time receive pupils for Violin, and MISS Gisborne implying the family were of his death. Mrs Batten suffered H. G. BATTEN for Pianoforte and about to move there and Marieda had considerably for several years, Organ. Terms on Application. joined them afterwards. An ad for Mrs which she bore with great fortitude Batten’s services first appears in 1906: and patience. Much sincere sympathy is accorded to Mr and

...... 3 Spring 2014 Mrs Batten, of Pollen St., in their She also published her book The Bay Herald, and Otago Daily Times). sad loss. Teardrop and was in contact with her The Bookman [A F T Chorlton] of The (Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue niece, her sister-in-law and nephew. Evening Post encouraged her work as 18393, 14 July 1917) Marieda attained infamy in Jean’s eyes did others. for letting her secret out that she had Her second book Love-life is a sonnet Jane was buried in Taruheru Cemetery. come to England to pursue her flying sequence of 30 sonnets published in James is buried at Waikumete career against her father’s wishes. Melbourne and very well made. Cemetery. Jean’s biographer and her own memoirs Newspaper reviews again gave her Marieda moved back to Wellington note this alleged betrayal from Marieda. mostly favourable mentions on both where Alexander was again a jeweler Marieda eventually died on 10 July sides of the Tasman. Some in New around 1915 (cf1919 Wellington 1933 at Sindelsham, Berkshire. Alison Zealand didn’t know that Marieda (a Suburbs Roll). They lived at 8 Orchard moved back to New Zealand and coming together of her two first names Road, Brooklyn. Newspaper references resumed living in Remuera. It’s not Ida and Mary) was the same New to Marieda and Alexander at concerts in known if she married but she almost Zealand poet. aid of Red Cross war funds and the Red certainly died in Brighton, England, in The sequence would’ve been unusual Cross shop appear during the war. the June quarter (April, May or June) of for the time period of 1918 and portrays Marieda became a Vice-President and 1965 aged 63. A brief note on her as an early feminist writer of some Wellington branch representative of the Marieda’s death appeared in The stature. Jean Batten’s biographer Ian Empire Poetry League of London Evening Post, 12 August 1933: Mackersey references her as being through contact with S Fowler Wright known for understanding ‘women’s initially made by J C Andersen (see New Zealanders will regret to learn emancipation’, perhaps a reason for letter in Turnbull Library, Wellington). of the death of Mrs. A. Laird changing her pen name. ( Dora Wilcox was another member Cooke, whose pen-name was thinks the name change was to do with known to New Zealanders. Marieda’s Marieda Batten (states “The Post’s” another Ida Mary Batten living in daughter Alison was now a singer and London representative). She passed Hawera, Taranaki, at that time.) accompanied her mother on trips to away early on the morning of July Marieda commanded renown and Auckland to visit her brother. 10, at “Remuera,” Sindlesham, respect for her sequence from a Marieda moved next to Auckland (44 Berkshire, after an illness of nine woman’s point-of-view focusing on a Clonbern Road, Remuera) around months’ duration. Mrs. Laird marriage and its trials and tribulations 1924/25. Her brother Frederick was Cooke was well known, in including eventual child-birth and the now a dentist, like his brother, of Auckland and Wellington as a problems of living with a husband who Remuera, Auckland, whose daughter writer, and as a member of the had ‘lied’ to her about something. was Jean Batten. [London] Lyceum Club. Her response to the First World War Fred had moved to Auckland from shows clearly in Māori Love Legends Rotorua in 1913 before the Great War The burial locator disc at the National her most successful book began and did serve in as a Library of New Zealand pinpoints internationally. The book was dedicated captain with the New Zealand Rifle Marieda’s grave at Andersons Bay to the ‘brave Maori warriors’ of the Brigade. Marieda, with Fred, her cemetery, Otago. Her ashes were buried First World War who had served ‘the husband Alexander, and Jean are in in a Cooke family plot next to her Great White Chief, King George the Batten family photos of this time, daughter Joan on 21 October 1933 Fifth’ and fought for honour in the pursuing leisure activities like boating implying that Alison had traveled with Pākehā world as well as believing they and swimming on the Hauraki Gulf. In them back to New Zealand from were joining a good stoush. The Hon. Auckland, she knew the writers Edna England. Meanwhile her flying niece Maui Pomare, “Minister for the Cook Graham Macky and Isabel Maud Jean became famous soon after. Islands, in charge of Maori Councils, Peacocke and became a Vice-President and representing the Maori Race”, and committee member of the New wrote the Foreword and helped to sell it. Zealand League of Penwomen (founded Literary Style He was pro-Māori conscription and had 1925). recognized Marieda’s book as important Alison and her mother moved to Batten’s poetry books confirm the culturally and politically at the time. England from Auckland after visiting dominant theme of her work was love, Pomare believed it to be “the first of its Wellington again around November and like a painter she continually kind in English” and stated that it 1926. This was after the death of her painted the same scenes from different “caught the spirit which governed husband (2 June that year, buried at angles. [Māori] sympathy with the moods of Waikumete Cemetery). In England, Her first book Star dust and sea foam Nature, recorded [Māori] warlike Marieda gave a talk on ‘New Zealand (mostly love lyrics) appeared under her impulses, and yea, [Māori] capacity poets’ at the London Lyceum Club real name “I.M. Batten” and was widely likewise for loving and for suffering.” around August 1928. reviewed in New Zealand papers Marieda’s love legends concerned: (Dominion, The Evening Post, Poverty Hinemoa and Tutanakei (Rotorua),

4 ...... Poetry Archive Raumahoa and Takarangi (New The British Library has Horses of the copy, but it may well be valuable poetic Plymouth), Puhihuia and Ponga Dawn catalogued; ‘words by M. history to our country. (Auckland) and Puta and Haumia (Mt Batten’. Besides book publication, Marieda’s Taranaki). The Teardrop published by Fowler work found publication widely in the It was a successful book at the time Wright in England in 1929 is her final Sydney Bulletin, The New Nation, The perhaps marred by its sentiment and book and at 194 pages appears to be a Triad, and the Auckland Star. The Romantic treatment of the legends in long poem. It seems to have come about Lyceum Club of London also had a comparison with A. Stanley Sherratt’s after S Fowler Wright (1874-1965) monthly journal from 1920 and this Polynesian Legends (c1924). picked her up for his 1924 anthology of needs to be checked for further A death must’ve occurred because her dominion and colonial verse, From publications by Marieda. next book Silver Nights while dealing Overseas, published by Merton Press, Here are some samples of her work: with love again is a wistful and Abbey House, London (the imprint and mournful book containing elegies for headquarters of the Empire Poetry someone close who’d died. In fact her League whose President was Sir Arthur From Love-life (c1918): daughter died in 1922 and this could Quiller-Couch). Fowler Wright was a well be the crux of her lament. It prolific fiction writer (SF and crime XXX. contains a number of her more novels), poet, translator, critic and successful Georgian lyric poems. The editor – an all-round man of letters. I watched him take his little one, our book confirmed her talent for the lyric There are 300 odd titles for his name child, both in her poetry and in her songs and publishing house in the British And gaze with fatherhood’s new-given published in London in 1925. The Library catalogue key word search for grace follow on effect from the Māori Love “Fowler Wright”. By all accounts, he Upon its tiny form, its baby face: Legends book was having a number of didn’t favour schools and cliques and His eyes, love-lighted, sought my own her songs performed at concerts in New enjoyed putting together challenging and smiled, Zealand and overseas: anthologies often with a tendency for And then we found our heaven, undefiled the over-blown sentiment and passion By bonds of time, or life’s contracted SUCCESSFUL WRITER so Marieda’s work would’ve have space, AND COMPOSER. appealed. Fowler Wright’s anthology But dwelling in two hearts that hold a A song written by Marieda Batten was ‘significant’ and ‘characteristic’ of place and composed by Mary Brett (Mrs. poetry written in English around the For the child-soul their love to earth Osborne, of Auckland), has just Empire rather than ‘comprehensive’. beguiled. been accepted for publication by However, the Turnbull letter (inside Messrs. Augoner and Co., Ltd., Voices on the Wind) from Fowler Transcendent joy, unutterable bliss London. This is the first Wright to J C Andersen implies that Floods over us as on our child we gaze, composition of Mary Brett’s to be contributors were to pay for their pages And know that here lies love made published. The title of the song is if successful on inclusion and a contract manifest: “The Horses of the Dawn,” and signed. Life holds no joy that can compare with already a great future is predicted Two Empire Poetry League anthologies this, for it, states the “Auckland Star.” 1922-1924 were issued during Our souls combine, we enter rapture’s At the London Lyceum Club, of Marieda’s time as member under the ways, which Marieda Batten (Mrs. Laird series title of Voices on the Wind His arms round me, our baby at my Cooke, recently of Auckland) is a (similar to the series of Georgian Poetry breast. member, a concert was recently round-ups) and it’s not known if held by the Music Board, at which Marieda appears in the second of these three Maori love songs, lyrics by anthologies. In 1927, a new edition From Silver nights (1925) Marieda Batten, were sung by Miss appeared of the 1924 anthology called Netta Lynde and Mr. Gordon From Overseas: An Anthology of WIND IN THE SILVER TREES Cleather. “The Horses of the Contemporary Dominions and United Dawn” was also sung by Mr. States Poetry, published by Fowler At dusk I stood above the silver trees, Gordon Cleather from the Wright, which is likely to include All still were they, the night a dreaming manuscript. It was accorded a Marieda. calm, vociferous encore, and Marieda If Silver Nights had a mournful tone, No silver showed, the leaves might all Batten, who was present, was The Teardrop seems to have followed have been warmly congratulated by members on from that collection and follows the But ordinary leaves—green filagrees— of the audience (The Evening Post, death of her husband in 1926. As The When suddenly I felt a dim alarm, Volume CV, Issue 9, 12 January Teardrop is not available for reading in For silver lightning lit those trees 1928). New Zealand I’m unable to sight a serene.

...... 5 Spring 2014 I watched again; and found a little breeze NIGHT From earliest years, she says poetry was As silent as the beat of angel wings an interest, shared by the family: Had ruffled all the leaves, revealed their The glory of the sun ‘Rhyme and rhythm was the norm. sheen Has melted from the sky, Influences at school would have been And made that lighting in the silver The clouds are all erased R L Stevenson and Gloria Rawlinson.’ trees; By Night’s soft majesty. Publications include Nicolo’s World While still, all unrevealed their silver (children’s cat verse, 1978) and two clings, Now heaven’s purple floor children’s stories self-published in Till movement came, it lingered there Is changed that we may see 2014: Bruno the Possum – A Short Life unseen. Star-flowers that through the day and Where’s Crumpet? Raising a Joey. Have bloomed invisibly. PANZA thanks Noeline for contributing Like breezes in the branches of the mind her work and writing biography to our Are words of friendship; words that If life is like the day, growing section on classic New Zealand understand; And death the coming night, poets and poetry. They give our silver leaves impulsion Remember that the stars slight Shine out when fades the light. Poems by Noeline Gannaway To move, and so reveal a radiance enshrined; (Sources: The British Library and COORDINATION Then speak, beloved! Thy voice a National Library of New Zealand breeze, a wand catalogues; WorldCat; Papers Past From repetitive machines, To turn dark leaves of thought to words (New Zealand) and The Trove Bullets drop in wooden troughs of light. (Australia); Births, Deaths and Ceaselessly, one by one, Marriages UK and New Zealand; New With the pop of lupin pods Zealand Electoral Rolls; researchers Splitting under a hot sun. PENCARROW LIGHT Rowan Gibbs, Dr Niel Wright and Dr (Wellington, New Zealand) Michael O’Leary; Jean Batten: Garbo Swing of belt and hiss of steam of the Skies by Ian Mackersey; Love-life Become the cicada’s vibrant theme Lest passing ships may meet a sudden and Silver nights by Marieda Batten) In pohutakawa trees. doom Arms create, before destroying, Where the gaunt harbour jaws await Life beside Pacific seas. their prey, Classic New Zealand Each night at sunset, there across the Where the shore slopes to the bay - bay, poetry Ruled by the regular timing of tides - Pencarrow Light bursts into radiant Sand shines like polished cartridges. bloom, Here insects in the trees all day And, like a star-flower in the gathering This issue’s classic New Zealand poetry Supply a factory of sound gloom is by Wellington children’s writer And birdsong brings the closing bells. With steady brilliancy sends forth its Noeline Gannaway. ray Gannaway was born in 1933 in High breakers pound explosively Across the troubled waters, grim and Auckland, grew up on Great Barrier Till all the shore is strewn with shells. grey Island on a dairy farm, and attended That fain would hide a yawning, rock- Medlands primary school. (From Raucous, magazine of O’Rorke bound tomb. Her secondary schooling was by Hall, 1953) correspondence, and she later studied at When, after journeying over Life’s wide Auckland University College gaining an TO W.S. AND S.W. sea, MA (Hons) in English. My ship shall near Death’s hidden port She taught at Whakatane High School Movers and shakers of the global stage! of rest, and the Correspondence School, Whose genius bequeathed in living art Where danger lurks, and clinging clouds Wellington. Enduring monument. Not of an age arise Noeline (real name Elsa Medland) But for all time. We thank you from the To blind my soul that still shall look for married John Gannaway in 1972. The heart. thee, couple had no children. Then, like Pencarrow, guide, O guide my Now widowed, she has lived in And you whose vision like a burning quest Wellington since 1959. star With the clear light, Beloved, of thy Gannaway travelled in 1964-5: UK , Saw by the Thames another playhouse dear eyes. Ireland, Europe, Israel and Jordan. rise Upon the former site, hear from afar: Gladly would we adorn your enterprise. 6 ...... Poetry Archive Woolcraft to intricate design creates CICADA SUMMER Titanic figures – Atlas, Hercules, Comment on Travis While Venus for the young Adonis Summertime and scarcely a breeze Wilson waits In apple trees, in taupata trees. In forest bright with birds and fruitful But listen to the cicada throng! trees. Are they fiddling? Or is it a song? AN ACCOUNT OF THE Or drumming their wings like honey NEW ZEALAND POET TRAVIS Receive our gift to welcome and enrobe bees? WILSON by Mark Pirie Your miracle, the resurrected Globe. Or winding their watches the whole day long? PETRA WAR CEMETERY Nicolo neither knows nor cares – Prophets and saints were always He plans to stalk them unawares. In Souda Bay the blue tides run strangers here And how can a jubilant insect see relentlessly relentlessly We turn away embarrassed when they Lurking danger from such as he? on scorched hills sears the Cretan sun speak – Then a swift-as-lightning stroke that remorselessly remorselessly Earth’s single-minded ones who tears – the tidied slabs assert their truth resentfully resentfully conquer fear – And time stands still in the apple tree. Impelled by fire along the path they No glory now – seek. (From Nicolo’s World, 1978) we pray you mourn our mother’s tears Firm like a rock you wait, and I recall FOR ZOE WITH LOVE our child unborn. That ancient-storied city of your name Known or unknown Where many a towering sculptured I keep losing you, garden-coloured cat all are gone sandstone wall In Summer grass, dry seed heads, fallen greed cant and rhetoric Through changing light glows gold and leaves, live on.

rose and flame. Or nestled among camellias, quiet as By Travis Wilson, Crete 1977 stone. Impregnable, in desert set apart, The New Zealand poet Travis Wilson Softened with oleander, asphodel Oh there you are! Stealthily recently came to PANZA’s attention Prophet, hold fast the vision in your stalking…what? after I received a request for more heart. A quick, light pirouette – information from Australia. A Among these stones, I hear your vigil You catch a butterfly. researcher Graeme Lindsay working on tell a war poems project became interested Of timelessness in truth, of strength in In vain Whites only please, I sigh. in the Travis Wilson poem ‘War pain – All’s grist for eager jaws Cemetery’ from her sole collection I climb the steps to talk with you again. And you disdain a racist diet published in 1983, The Long Having a six-year-old mind of your Ambivalence. Lindsay thought that TO A FRIEND own. Travis Wilson was a male poet and enlisted my help to trace copyright and Your image, blurred by time, Again! Where are you? Speak to me. more detail. Spring recreates Don’t let me tread on your paws! On further research, I discovered Travis Sharp as pain Wilson was a woman poet with a long In green-budded tree I shall look under the lemon tree publication history publishing between And fresh gold crocuses upthrust. Where shifting light and shadows weave the late 1930s and the early 1980s in A tawny coat like yours. New Zealand. Lover of beauty, spears environ me – Wilson (full name Travis Cowie A perilous protection. WOLF Wiltshire Wilson later Travis Coates) Gain is lost died on 25 October 1983 aged 59 years. In lavish promise that disintegrates. In Petra once Born on 30 January 1924, she spent her I met a man life in and around Auckland. Growing Seeing the crocuses, yellow and blue, Training a wolf to be a dog. up initially in Mt Eden she lived with Trampelled, I suffer in their fate Inside the ancient Treasury her parents and was educated at New And who can say you are not wounded It walked obedient on a lead Lynn School, Auckland Girls’ too? Or rested in the shade. Grammar and Auckland University I moved to stroke it there and then College gaining a BA in 1945. She (From New Zealand Listener, c1971) But Do not touch, he said.

...... 7 Spring 2014 married Robert (Roy) Desmond Coates more modernist poems were published Domestic themes of family-life, love at the end of the Second World War. in 1979-1982 and Comment: A and death inform much of her work An account of their wedding is in the New Zealand Quarterly Review, April throughout the 1950s and ’60s. History New Zealand Herald (26 December 1982; No.15. reviewed and literature are ongoing concerns, as 1945, page 7): her only collection, The Long is her role as a poet. Ambivalence, in Landfall, June 1984, ‘Maternity Ward’ from the 1960s is a COATES—WILSON No. 150, pp. 244-246. Pencarrow Press four-part sequence, which begins with a The marriage of Miss Travis Wilson, published the collection at 8 Aumoe chorus of the nurse, the sister and the eldest daughter of Mrs and the late Avenue Auckland 5 – not Wilson’s own matron, followed by monologues of Mr J. Cowie Wilson, of Pencarrow residential address. The reviewer three patients: Louise, Claire and Jess. Avenue, Mount Eden, to Mr Robert Edmond clearly didn’t know the poet The 1970s features travel poems to Desmond Coates, only son of Mr and was deceased. Yet her review shows a Sydney, Crete and France – and these Mrs R. Coates, of Browns Bay, took degree of acceptance in New Zealand short French poems are in French at place on Saturday, December 22, at literary circles around that time. , Nice and Amiens respectively. the Mount Eden Methodist Church. Her book, The Long Ambivalence: Satire and light verse become more The bride, who was given away by Poems 1940-1982, is a cleverly common in the ’70s and ’80s. her uncle, Mr E. J. C. Reston, wore a constructed work, bringing together a There is also a poem in this period gown of white cloque, cut on range of her poetry from the 1940s until noting an illness (a visit to a hematology mediaeval lilies, with cowl neck and the 1980s. It begins with Georgian work clinic). wide monk sleeves. Her veil of old and ends with a long Modernist free Researcher Rowan Gibbs found further lace formed a. slight train, and she verse sequence, a meditation on life that information on her, including that she carried a sheaf of white gladioli. The she calls ‘The Long Ambivalence’. was a poetry/prose contributor to Kiwi bridesmaids, Miss Lyn Wilson, sister The poems from the ’40s cover the war 1943 as ‘Travis C Wilson’ during her of the bride, and Miss Jocelyn Coates, period in a range of elegies. The best of time at Auckland University College sister of the bridegroom, wore frocks these is the Modernist poem: during the war. of soft white and blue brocaded satin, She was next an editor at Craccum 1944 and chaplets of the same material. HERE IN THE LONG GRASS and was the woman Vice-President of Each carried a sheaf of blue the Auckland Students’ Association. delphiniums. Mr H. M. Adams was Here the grass is long Editing Kiwi 1944 , she contributed the best man and Mr T. Griffiths as and even a heart may hide editorial, prose and poems under groomsman. Mrs Wilson received her its hurt in green oblivion. ‘T.C.W.’ and possibly ‘T.W.’. guests after the ceremony at a Here they cannot find me Kiwi is online at the Auckland reception at her home. to cast their pity round me University Bookshelf. There is a photo like a wiry net enmeshing there of Travis: Roy had served with the 2NZEF: Sgt. and enraging. http://www.thebookshelf.auckland.ac.nz 1st Echelon 18th Battalion. She lived in Here is no wonder /docs/Kiwi/kiwi_1944.pdf Auckland with Roy on the New Zealand that I do not cry. Further PapersPast searches reveal that Electoral Rolls 1946-1981. Roy (1918- No eyes she had begun publishing poetry and 2001) was an accountant and treasurer watching for my breaking prose vignettes in newspaper with the Auckland City Council. The hoping for my weakening. competitions as a schoolchild, and was a couple had children according to her Here are no books to comfort prize-winning poet at age 14 in New poems, including the artist Robert with tales of deaths of great men. Zealand Herald competition results. Jonathan Coates. Here is only the earth She was clearly a poet of more than Travis became a school English teacher that knows him now occasional interest in the art, which after being a homemaker and raising her better than I have ever known. Lauris Edmond hadn’t perhaps thought children. (Lie kindly on him earth in her Landfall review. Travis Wilson like a number of women and let him not remember) The current interest from Australia writers profiled in Poetry Notes has Here is only the cricket singing bears this out. somehow fallen through the cracks but a song of indifference. not without trying to make her work Here are little cracks in the ground known. between the drying grasses. Travis who started out publishing in The earth and I share a dear aridity. rhyme and assimilated more Modernist There will be time technique by the 1970s seems to have a for rain and tears. reasonable profile but doesn’t appear in anthologies of women’s writing. Her

8 ...... Poetry Archive Australia to New Zealand (Sydney to To Australia’s far-famed country has National Poetry Day Auckland in 10 and a half hours) and she sped on eagle wing; poem: Jean Batten broke the record flight from England to Breaking every lone-flight record! Loud Australia (5 days and 21 hours). A we now her praises sing! remarkable achievement. Then—to crown this wondrous journey, PANZA celebrated National Poetry Batten remains an alluring and and fulfil her well-laid plans, Day, 22 August 2014, by posting on our enigmatic figure, the subject of See her launched upon the distance website a classic New Zealand poem on children’s fiction, historical fiction and which the Tasman Ocean spans! famous New Zealand aviator Jean biography but little is known about her Ever nearer grow the mountains where Batten by H S (Henry Stansfield) Gipps presence in New Zealand poetry. the wild deer loves to roam; (1865?-1944). PANZA knows of one other poem from Ever dearer grows the prospect of that Gipps was born in Midlothian, Scotland, this period by Donald H Lea (1879?- long’d for Welcome Home! lived in England and came to New 1960), ‘New Zealand Lass with a New delights and joys await her in New Zealand in the 1880s where he settled at Hielan’ Name’, included in a previous Zealand’s sunny land, Wakapuaka, Nelson. He was a issue of our newsletter Poetry Notes, As once more she joins the circle of the contemporary of other New Zealand Spring 2013. Lea’s poem also concerns happy “household band!” poets like the recently republished Batten’s 1936 flight. Robert J Pope (1865-1949). Batten’s own aunt Marieda Batten (Mrs * * * * In 1907 Gipps published his only Ida Mary Cooke) (1875-1933) was a collection called Outward Bound. He poet and Mark Pirie has profiled her in Oh! the ringing shouts of “Welcome” was a sailor with a love of the ocean. As this issue of Poetry Notes. which her “wonder-flight” acclaim! such, a number of his poems concern PANZA recognises H S Gipps as a poet Sure in aviation’s story hers is now the sailing and journeys by ship. Mark Pirie of interest during the Edwardian and brightest name! included his sailing poem, ‘After’, in his Georgian eras. He doesn’t appear in any Every happiness attend her! Countless special broadsheet feature last year on New Zealand poetry anthology that blessings mark her way! the Star poets of the PANZA is aware of. Safely brought thro’ all Life’s changes 1920s. Gipps contributed to the paper to the Land of endless day! from Nelson, and also contributed to the Nelson Evening Mail and the Evening AN EPIC EMPIRE FLIGHT H S GIPPS, Atawhai. Post’s “Postscripts” column in 1941. Other poems in Gipps’ book concern Lines Dedicated to Miss Jean Batten October 1936 family, love and life in New Zealand. His poems give us a sense of Nelson in Joy-bells ringing, ’plane low-swinging— colonial times, ‘Our New Post Office’ “See the conquering heroine comes!” Bibliography for instance, while poems like ‘Across Hearts and voices join in chorus like a the Seas’ look back longingly to mighty roll of drums! Works by H S Gipps: England, a land he left in search of a Earth’s vast spaces left behind her— new life in the colony. desert sands and forest green; Outward Bound and Other Poems, In Nelson, Gipps was a member of the Flying at three full “half-hundreds” over Nelson, N.Z.: Alfred G. Betts, Printer, Nelson SPCA and the Nelson Poultry, many a chequer’d scene! [1907]. Pigeon and Canary Association. At her bidding roars the engine— Soliliquay of the Telephone, [Nelson, His publications after Outward Bound flashing “blades” unceasing whirl; N.Z.]: Betts Typ., [1908]. were in pamphlet form, and by 1936 Throbbing horse-power turned to action Enter the Doctor: (with variations), Gipps was firmly planted in New by a lion-hearted girl! Atawhai [N.Z.: H.S. Gipps, ca. 1935]. Zealand soil when writing his poem in Now low-flying o’er the ocean, where An Epic Empire Flight: Lines dedicated praise of the ‘Greta Garbo of the skies’ wild waves her passing greet; to Miss Jean Batten, Atawhai [N.Z.: Jean Batten, recently the subject of Soaring high above the sand-storm to a H.S. Gipps], 1936. Dame ’s novel, The clear ten thousand feet! Infinite Air. Gipps issued the poem as a Borne in safety thro’ the heavens; sunny stand alone pamphlet (copy held by the skies and starlit night; Turnbull Library in Wellington). Kindly providence to guard her, on her Gipps’ poem concerns Batten’s world long and lonely flight! absolute record flight from England to All attention keenly centred on the New Zealand 5-16 October 1936 in 11 bright-control board’s signs; days and 45 minutes, which included a Altimeter, “speed,” and compass—all 2 and a half day stop-over in Sydney. its intricate designs! Also a world absolute record flight from

...... 9 Spring 2014 A CHECKLIST OF 150 POETS Tribute to Warren NOT IN ESSENTIAL NEW Dibble ZEALAND POEMS (2014)

1. Rob Allan Stephen Oliver pays tribute to 2. Rewi Alley Warren Dibble 3. John Ansell 4. K O Arvidson RENDEZVOUS 5. Jennifer Barrer 6. Helen Bascand for Warren Dibble 7. Hilary Baxter 8. Airini Beautrais You gave me back my words. A reminder. 9. Sandra Bell Your voice I knew immediately. My words 10. Jeanne C Bernhardt gave me 11. Ivan Bootham pause, half recalled, how could it be 12. Nola Borrell otherwise? 13. Erick Brenstrum 14. Iain Britton I heard them in a different register, 15. David Lyndon Brown as if for the first time, remade. They had all gathered, 16. Alan Brunton those words, in spontaneous, 17. Karen Peterson Butterworth 18. Peter Cape mass demonstration, shoulder-to-shoulder, Warren Dibble 19. Tony Chad to make a rendezvous. Whether this was 20. Jill Chan expectation or 21. Cyril Childs conclusion, greeting, or decisive farewell, 22. John Clarke [Fred Dagg] Comment on Essential 23. Mary Cresswell in a town square, down highway, for one 24. Barry Crump moment, New Zealand Poems: I could not tell, those words, disowned, 25. Jennifer Compton independent. Facing the Empty Page 26. Wystan Curnow 27. Bill Dacker Given back to me within the single minded 28. Leigh Davis character of your voice, tremulous, through PANZA doesn’t wish to criticise or 29. John Dennison the cable denigrate the work of the poets who were 30. Warren Dibble beneath the Tasman Sea. lucky enough to be included in Essential 31. Bill Direen New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty 32. John Dolan The phone call reversed its charge and two Page (2014), an anthology comprising 33. Basil Dowling poems 150 New Zealand poets who’ve informed me newly. Then you hung up. 34. Mike Doyle Nothing more needed saying. A gift. published since 1950. The editors have 35. Doc Drumheller generously picked poems they like and 36. Len Du Chateau dedicate it to New Zealand poets. The 37. Rendezvous first appeared in Snorkle publisher’s publicity, however, suggests 38. Jack Duggan #17 (Australia) and this tribute first it is a selection of New Zealand’s ‘finest 39. Grant Duncan appeared on Beattie’s Book Blog. poetry’. 40. Mike Eager Yet this additional list of 150 more 41. Lynda Chanwai Earle names – some missing from the book for 42. Kim Eggleston “Warren Dibble 1931-2014— copyright reasons or disagreement on 43. Andrew Fagan playwright, poet, Burns Fellow, selection? – shows how rich and diverse 44. Linzy Forbes University of Otago 1969—lived in the number of fine New Zealand poets 45. Robin Fry Sydney for over four decades. Warren writing since the 1950s is. 46. Basim Furat removed himself from the literary circus Even with a list of 300 names in total, 47. Bernard Gadd years ago. Comfortably into his early however, there would still be more 48. John Gallas 80s, he continued to write but did not poets worthy of a place in any New 49. Noeline Gannaway publish. Warren was one of the wittiest Zealand anthology. Our online 50. men I had ever met. His poetry and catalogue has a fuller list. 51. Harry Goodwin other writings are as good as any writer The current PANZA archive includes 52. Brian Gregory who has achieved genuine acclaim in over 5,000 poetry books, periodicals 53. [Rore Hapiti] NZ letters, past or present. Vale” and anthologies. 54. 10 ...... Poetry Archive 55. Jeffrey Harpeng 112. Ron Riddell 56. Paul Henderson [Ruth France] 113. Nigel Roberts Launch report: World 57. Roger Hickin 114. Alan Roddick Cup football poetry 58. Peter Hooper 115. Martyn Sanderson 59. Ted Jenner 116. Sam Sampson 60. Marion Jones 117. Michael Steven The World Cup issue of broadsheet /13 61. Tim Jones 118. Helen Shaw edited by PANZA member Mark Pirie 62. David Karena-Holmes 119. Norman Simms was successfully launched at the 63. Kapka Kassabova 120. Keith Sinclair Embassy of Brazil in Wellington on 2 64. Phil Kawana 121. Charles Spear July this year. 65. Scott Kendrick 122. Jeanette Stace Speakers and poets entertained the 66. Wanjiku Kiarie 123. Douglas Stewart audience with a night of creative words, 67. Hilaire Kirkland 124. Barbara Strang football and song. The event received 68. Saradha Koirala 125. wonderful hospitality from the Brazilian 69. Leicester Kyle 126. Barry Southam Embassy staff. 70. Gary Langford 127. André Surridge Wellington City Councillor Andy Foster 71. Richard Langston 128. Bill Sutton launched the book, and gave a short talk 72. Bill Leadbeater 129. Laura Solomon about his own personal love of football 73. 130. Mary Stanley since he was a boy, and his delight at 74. Dennis List 131. John Summers launching the book at the Brazilian 75. Terry Locke 132. Yilma Tafere Tasew Embassy. 76. Alan Loney 133. Jo Thorpe He finished by congratulating Mark 77. Jean Lonie 134. Jim Tocker Pirie on his achievement in compiling 78. Willow Macky 135. Mahinarangi Tocker the book and noted the powerful 79. 136. Denys Trussell evocations of the poetry in particular 80. G J Melling 137. Anton Vogt Mark’s ‘All White on the Night’ about 81. Rosemary Menzies 138. Roland Vogt the All Whites’ victory over Bahrain to 82. Gary McCormick 139. Richard von Sturmer qualify for the 2010 World Cup. The 83. Frank McKay 140. Brian Walpert game had a record attendance of 35,000 84. Daryl McLaren 141. Nelson Wattie in Wellington and Foster said that sports 85. Heather McPherson 142. J E Weir fans from all codes noted it as a 86. Harvey McQueen 143. standout sports event in recent history. 87. F W G (Fred) Miller 144. Simon Williamson Mark Pirie spoke next and talked of his 88. Mike Minehan 145. Pat Wilson own love of Brazil sportspersons since 89. 146. Travis Wilson he was a boy watching World Cups and 90. Chris Moisa 147. Hubert Witheford Formula 1 Grand Prixs on TV. Mark 91. Barry Morrall 148. F W N (Niel) Wright reeled off a list of Brazilian greats from 92. Michael Morrissey 149. Roger Wrighton Pelé to Ronaldinho. 93. Martha Morseth 150. Mark Young Mark summarised the book’s contents 94. S Musgrove and talked of his own football playing 95. William E Morris days from 1983-1993 when he played 96. Michael O’Leary for Onslow Juniors, Wellington College 97. Victor O’Leary and Victoria University (in 1992) with 98. Stephen Oliver Foster. (That season was Foster’s only 99. W H Oliver season with Victoria before playing for 100. Rhys Pasley Waterside Karori for many years.) 101. Brian Potiki Mark finished by reading several 102. Roma Potiki poems: ‘Racing Cars [for Ayrton 103. Anne Powell Senna]’, ‘Boots’ and ‘Sonnet for [Ex- 104. Patricia Prime All White] Simon Elliott’, whom Mark 105. Sarah Quigley knew at Wellington College. 106. Lindsay Rabbitt Mark then introduced the keynote 107. Vaughan Rapatahana speaker who’d written the book’s 108. Gloria Rawlinson foreword, ex-All White Michael Groom 109. Trevor Reeves 1980-84 and now a coach at the Clube 110. Alan Riach in Hamilton. 111. Mark Richards ...... 11 Spring 2014 Groom regaled the audience with a Michael Groom continued his juggling retelling of how he had heard lines in to music (an encore request) as the book Donate to PANZA Portuguese from Ronaldinho and grew signings began. through PayPal to love the Brazilian jogo bonito (the moment when futebol becomes the (This report first appeared on Beattie’s beautiful game). Groom runs a samba Book Blog, 14 July 2014) You can now become a friend of style school in Hamilton (and coached PANZA or donate cash to help us the young Chris Wood and Marco Rojas continue our work by going to both future All Whites) but said his way http://pukapukabooks.blogspot.com and of coaching was not a method but more accessing the donate button – any a way of spiritual connection with the donation will be acknowledged. love of football. He ended by playing an original song with samba music about Ronaldinho that he had penned. While the music Recently received played, Groom juggled an official World Cup ball and balanced it on his donations back, neck and head a number of times, evoking the presence of Ronaldinho in Diana Cloud – 16 titles of Argot the room. Mark in Brazil-coloured magazine. trainers also had a go at dribbling with some Brazilian turns/step overs. John Quilter – 3 titles. A poetry reading followed with young poet Dylan Groom splendidly Nola Borrell – wakeful echoes by Nola introduced by his father and reading his Borrell. powerful poem ‘Football’ about his comeback from open-heart surgery to Stephen Oliver – Asian Journal of resume football with his father and Literature and Culture April 2013. brothers at the Clube. Michael O’Leary read a poem about the Manchester Polynesian Legends Barry Southam – 30 titles. United visit to Auckland of 1967 during success the Summer of Love: “Watching Soccer Mark Pirie – 50 titles. could be like a rock concert”. David McGill read a short limerick upon PANZA member Mark Pirie reports that Niel Wright – 3 booklets by Cameron meeting England great and 1966 World the sequence of Māori legends and La Follette. Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore. myths by A. Stanley Sherratt that he Simon Boyce finished the readings with discovered in the Christchurch Star last Robin Fry – Love Song of the Wading a poem about his early love of football year and republished with an Bird by Robin Fry. “when the / schoolboy’s dream / was introduction by Dr Michael O’Leary is still alive”. now in 21 libraries world-wide. His PANZA kindly thanks these donators to The event was also marking broadsheet other publication King Willow by the archive. editor and poet Mark Pirie’s 40th Robert J Pope is in 15 libraries world- birthday, and the audience led by wide. Michael O’Leary joined in to sing “For This shows the value of PANZA’s he’s a jolly good fellow!” About the Poetry operation and Mark Pirie’s hard work Brazilian Ambassador Eduardo on finding and re-evaulating our early Gradilone ended the lively evening by Archive poets. noting some aspects of football in Dr Niel Wright publicly commented at a Brazil, congratulating Mark on the recent film screening (29 July 2014) of Poetry Archive of New Zealand achievement of bringing football and Paul Wolffram’s documentary film, Aotearoa (PANZA) poetry together, and expressing the Voices of the Land, on Richard Nunns’ future hope that there would be more study and use of Māori instruments that PANZA contains interest in New Zealand’s main national Wolffram and Pirie’s progress since sport rugby in Brazil. This was JAAM magazine in 1995 ‘had been A unique Archive of NZ published particularly apt with rugby to feature at quite spectacular’. poetry, with around five thousand titles the Rio Olympics in 2016. from the 19th century to the present

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