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Lauris Edmond & Bill Sewell SELECTED BY LAURIS EDMOND & BILL SEWELL GODWIT INTRODUCTION JENNY B0RNH0LDT Instructions for How to Get FLEUR AOCOCK Ahead of Yourself While For Andrew 17 the Light Still Shines 41 Parting is Such Sweet The Visit 42 Sorrow 18 Cattle in Mist 19 CHARLES BRASCH from Nineteen Thirty-nine CONTENTS JOHN ALLISON 43 Springtime 21 Break and Go 44 Winter Anemones 45 KEN ARVIDSON Im Abendrot [from The Four BUB BRIDGER Last Songs of Richard Blatant Resistance 46 Strauss at Takahe Creek above the Kaipara) 22 Wild Daisies 47 The Tall Wind 24 JAMES BROWN B.E. BAUGHAN Tremors 48 The Old Place 25 RACHEL BUSH JAMES K. BAXTER Look Here 49 High Country Weather 27 KATE CAMP Ballad of Calvary Street 28 Broken Glass to Evening Tomcat 30 Dress 50 from Jerusalem Sonnets 31 ALISTAIR TE ARIKI CAMPBELL JAMES BERTRAM The Cicadas 32 Looking at Kapiti 51 Gathering Mushrooms 52 URSULA BETHELL Waiting for the Pakeha 53 Garden-Lion 33 Fall 34 MEG CAMPBELL Black Swans and a Rainbow October, 1935 35 54 TONY BEYER My Countrywoman 55 Dancing Bear 36 PETER CAPE The Male Voice 37 Down the Hall on Saturday Night 56 PAOLA BILBROUGH Countries Lodge in the Body GORDON CHALLIS 38 Goonengerry 57 PETER BLAND GEOFF COCHRANE Wellington 39 Summer Fires 59 Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace 40 ALLEN CURNOW House and Land 60 Spectacular Blossom 61 Lone Kauri Road 62 Moules a la Mariniere 63 RUTH DALLAS RANGI FAITH W. HART-SMITH Frost at Night 65 Unfinished Crossword 91 Subject Matter 112 Photographs of Pioneer Tractor 113 Women 66 ALUN FALCONER Iceland Poppies 67 Attack at Noon 92 DINAH HAWKEN Talking to a Tree Fern 114 JOHN DICKSON FIONA FARRELL the guides (from Counting Creed 93 ROBIN HEALEY the Seeds) 68 What it's Like 94 Immigrant 117 BASIL DOWLING GLENDA FAWKES JEFFREY PAPAR0A H0LMAN Otago Peninsula 69 Losing the Words 95 As Big as a Father 118 MARILYN DUCKWORTH JANET FRAME An Ambition 71 The Kea Speaks from the INGRID H0RR0CKS Dunedin Botanical Look 120 EILEEN DUGGAN Gardens 96 KERI HULME The Tides Run up the Wairau Rain on the Roof 97 72 Winesong 15 121 When in Still Air 73 ANNE FRENCH The Wine-Rich Arteries 122 Plagiarism 74 Cricket 98 Knowledge and Belief 99 SAM HUNT Post-War 75 Plea Before Storm 123 DENIS GLOVER Tomorrow, South, Love, Yes LAURIS EDMOND The Magpies 100 124 Wellington Letter XIV 76 Thistledown (from Sings Ana Gathering Cones on Going to Moscow 77 Harry) 101 Battle Hill 125 Tempo 78 The End (from Arawata Bill) In Position 80 ROBIN HYDE 102 In the Lane 126 MURRAY EDMOND Solitary Drinker 103 The Last Ones 127 Old Hat Song 81 KATHLEEN GRATTAN Sisters 128 Why the Door is Green 104 DAVID EGGLETON KEVIN IRELAND Death of the Author 82 H.W. GRETTON Striking a Pose 129 Takapuna Beach 83 The Snag 105 A Shrinking World 130 DAVID ELWORTHY Triolet 106 Mururoa: The Name of the Place 131 Afternoon Tea 84 BERNADETTE HALL A Vision at Warrington ROB JACKAMAN RIEMKE ENSING Beach 107 The Lady Walks ... 133 Finding the Ancestors 85 Poem in the Matukituki Valley 109 MICHAEL JACKSON MARGARET ESCOTT Full Moon 134 Flowers for the Patient 86 MICHAEL HARL0W Seven Mysteries 135 And Just Now (from Poem A.R.D. FAIRBURN Then, for Love) 110 HELEN JACOBS Down on my Luck 88 Cassandra's Daughter 111 - to butterfly 136 Song at Summer's End 89 A Farewell 90 ADRIENNE JANSEN JOY MACKENZIE EMMA NEALE The Bearer 137 Magpies & Other Outlaws Presuming the Worst 182 160 LOUIS JOHNSON JOHN NEWTON Here Together Met 138 MARY MACPHERSON Opening the Book 183 The Room 161 At Large in the Eighties 139 SIR APIRANA NGATA Departures 140 CILLA McQUEEN A Love Song 184 Timepiece 162 MIKE JOHNSON JAMES NORCLIFFE Treasure Hunt 7 141 Homing In 163 the sportsman drops a goal Quark Dance 164 185 ANDREW JOHNSTON For Rose 142 HARVEY McQUEEN Partial Eclipse 186 Boat 143 Patrick 165 GREGORY O'BRIEN Makeshift Holding Pen (from M.K. JOSEPH Yesterday) 166 Reliquary 187 A Riddle: Of the Soul 144 Storm Warning 188 BILL MANHIRE Waiting at the Station 145 The Song 167 JOHN O'CONNOR Drunken Gunners 146 Thank You 189 Poem for Vanessa 168 The Rotary Washer 190 KAPKA KASSABOVA Antarctic Stone 170 Security (from The W.H. OLIVER Immigrant Cycle) 147 KATHERINE MANSFIELD Peacocks 191 JAN KEMP ToL.H.B.-(1894-1915) 171 BOB ORR Night Poem 148 The Man with the Wooden Leg 172 My Father's Bomber Jacket 192 FIONA KIDMAN Pact for Mother and R.A.K. MASON Container Terminal 193 Teenager 149 Latter-day Geography CHRIS 0RSMAN Anzac'77 150 Lesson 173 On the Swag 174 Ornamental Gorse 194 LEONARD LAMBERT Judas Iscariot 175 The Last Tent 195 The Echo Dogs 152 VINCENT O'SULLIVAN Somewhere in August 153 MIKE MINEHAN in march we're going to In Parliament Grounds 196 MICHELE LEGGOTT egypt 176 July, July 197 from a woman, a rose, and The Grieving Process 198 what it has to do with her BARRY MITCALFE or they with one another? Love Song of the Mountains ALISTAIR PATERSON 154 177 Horses with Children 200 IAIN LONIE MICHAEL MORRISSEY MARK PIRIE The Entrance to Purgatory my imaginary grandmother Progress 201 155 178 My Toaster Tells the Time VIVIENNE PLUMB 157 ELIZABETH NANNESTAD Before the Operation 202 Tapeworm 203 RACHEL McALPINE Shoes (from A Portrait of my Mother) 180 Here It Is 158 Her Voice (from A Portrait of ROMA POTIKI House Proud [from House my Mother) 181 Hers Is 204 Poems) 159 SARAH QUIGLEY C.K. STEAD ATRICK WILSON To Waitemata Harbour 205 With a Pen-Knife 224 The Precious Pearl 248 from Quesada 226 The Smile 249 LAURA RANGER from Twenty Two Sonnets The Sea 206 227 HUBERT WITHEF0RD King of Kings 250 ALAN RIACH J.C. STURM loing into Winter 251 Dona Nobis Pacem 207 Coming Home 228 DAVID McKEE HARRY RICKETTS ROBERT SULLIVAN WRIGHT Albergo Sole 208 Waka99 230 In the Moonlight 252 The Moment 209 APIRANA TAYLOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ALAN RODDICK TeKooti 231 The Test 210 BIBLIOGRAPHY BRIAN TURNER INDEX OF FIRST BILL SEWELL Like Lamplight 232 LINES AND POEMS Riversdale 211 Madrigal 233 On Impulse 212 Fingerbones 234 IAIN SHARP HONE TUWHARE Smoke 213 Old Man Chanting in the Dark 236 KEITH SINCLAIR Heemi 237 The Bomb is Made 214 Snowfall 239 ELIZABETH SMITHER RAE VARC0E Here Come the Clouds 215 Mercy, Mater, Mercy 240 City Girl in the Country 216 My Mother Looking at Stars RAYMOND WARD 217 Watching Snow 241 KENDRICK IAN WEDDE SMITHYMAN from Earthly: Sonnets for Walk Past Those Houses on Carlos 242 a Sunday Morning 218 The Windy Bough 243 Gathering the Toheroa 219 Six False Starts. No Stops. CHARLES SPEAR Getting Homesick. 244 Homecoming 220 ALBERT WENDT JEANETTE STACE Parents & Children 245 Camera 221 VIRGINIA WERE MARY STANLEY Coming Down, West Auckland, 7.10.98 246 Householder 222 The Wife Speaks 223 TOM WEST0N Today's Story 247.
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