| Description |
xxxvi, 679 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [658]-671. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Poetry. I have made friends with time ; The return ; Children among the tombstones / J.R. Hervey -- Shades of Maro of Toulouse ; Contrast ; Augury / Eileen Duggan -- For an amulet ; The estuary ; Tom's a-cold ; Song at summer's end ; Down on my luck ; To a friend in the wilderness / A.R.D. Fairburn -- The ruins ; Autumn, Thurlby domain ; Self to self ; Ambulando ; Mountain lily ; from In your presence ; Cry mercy ; Man missing ; Ergo sum ; Shoriken ; Winter anemones / Charles Brasch -- Mushrooms ; The unreturning native ; Rebel and recluse ; A memory of Goose Bay ; Glenmark / Basil Dowling -- O matre pulchra-- ; The disinherited ; Christoph ; Environs of Vanholt I ; The prisoner ; Vineta ; Animae superstiti ; Scott-Moncrieff's Beowulf ; From a book of hours ; 1894 in London ; At dawn ; God save the stock ; Promised land ; Escape ; Remark / Charles Spear -- At dead low water ; from Tomb of an ancestor. In memoriam, R.L.M.G. ; Old hand of the sea ; Eden gate ; To forget self and all ; Elegy on my father ; The eye is more or less satisfied with seeing ; Keep in a cool place ; Spectacular blossom ; He cracked a word ; A small room with large windows ; from Trees, effigies, moving objects. Lone Kauri Road ; Two pedestrians with one thought ; Magnificat / Allen Curnow ; from An incorrigible music. Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? ; A balanced bait in handy pellet form / Allen Curnow ; from You will know when you get there. A reliable service ; A touch of the hand ; You will know when you get there / Allen Curnow -- Sings Harry ; from Arawata Bill. The crystallised waves ; For myself and a particular woman ; Theocritus viii, 53 / Denis Glover -- Elegy ; I think of those / Paul Henderson -- Mercury Bay eclogue ; Distilled water ; Scientist's song ; from Pastiches. Mr. Eliot goes to Canterbury ; Mars ascending ; On the exercise of freewill in the lifting of an arm ; Girl, boy, flower, bicycle ; Cinema ; The drunkard and the crane ; Elegy in a city railyard / M.K. Joseph -- The hare in the snow ; From Ur to Erewhon ; Then - and again / Gloria Rawlinson -- The wife speaks ; Sestina ; Put off constricting day / Mary Stanley -- Milking before dawn ; The boy ; from Letter to a Chinese poet. Beating the drum ; Evening ; Viewing the cherry blossom ; Envoy ; Shadow show ; In central Otago ; A warm evening ; An old woman thinks of death ; Reverie ; from Jackinabox / Ruth Dallas -- The gap ; Kings of kings ; Cloud burst ; The displacement ; Barbarossa ; Mokau Estuary, 5 a.m., November 1943 ; Upon Westminster Bridge ; Bondage ; The arena ; White goddess ; Words of love ; The staying of the Magi ; An 18th century painting of wildfowl / Hubert Witheford -- Memorial to a missionary ; The parakeet ; The grin / Keith Sinclair. |
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Poetry. Anzac ceremony ; from Considerations. 'High in the afternoon the dove' ; After ; Waikato railstop ; Alarm without excursion ; Parable of two talents ; Hint for the incomplete angler ; Flying to Palmerston ; Reminiscence ; Colville ; Idyll ; The seal in the dolphin pool ; Science fiction / Kendrick Smithyman -- Time and the child ; Burial ; Tangi ; The old place ; Not by wind ravaged ; No ordinary sun ; The girl in the park ; Old man chanting in the dark ; Drunk ; To a Maori figure cast in bronze outside the Chief Post Office, Auckland ; A fall of rain at Miti-Miti / Hone Tuwhare -- O lung flowering like a tree ; Yet another poem about a dying child ; Rain on the roof ; When the sun shines more years than fear ; Some will be for burning ; Dialogue ; Mother and daughter ; The flowering cherry / Janet Frame -- August, Ohakune ; Before a funeral ; Scar tissue ; Round Oriental Bay ; The beech tree ; After Chagall ; The names / Lauris Edmond -- Hut near desolated pines ; At a fishing settlement ; The return ; from Elegy. Now he is dead ; The laid-out body / Alistair Campbell ; Bitter harvest ; from Sanctuary of spirits. Against Te Rauparaha ; Gathering mushrooms ; Why don't you talk to me? ; The gunfighter ; Love song for Meg ; Dreams, yellow lions ; Memo to Mr. Auden, 29/8/66 / Alistair Campbell -- In Radcliffe Square, Oxford ; In the fields of my father's youth ; Solstice / W.H. Oliver -- Watching snow ; Solo for clarinet / Raymond Ward -- High country weather ; The bay ; To my father ; Elegy for an unknown soldier ; Wild bees ; The morgue ; The fallen house ; The homecoming ; Lament for Barney Flanagan ; My love late walking ; Crossing Cook Strait ; Perseus ; Election 1960 ; Ballad of Calvary Street ; At Taieri Mouth ; Tomcat ; The lion skin ; from Jerusalem sonnets. 1, 2, 18, 27 ; from Autumn testament. 7, 18, 22, 32, 42, 48 ; from Te whiore o te kuri. 7 ; from Five sestinas. Winter in Jerusalem ; The dark welcome / James K. Baxter -- Starlings and history ; For my father ; The journey of Meng Chiao / Charles (Mike) Doyle -- Birds flying ; Livery stable / Alistair Paterson -- The priests of Serrabonne / Owen Leeming -- Whether the will is free ; A natural grace ; A small registry of births and deaths ; from Quesada. 1, 4, 5, 10, 15, 17 ; from Twenty-one sonnets. 2, 9 ; from Walking westward / C.K. Stead -- The iceman ; The shadowless man ; Thin partition ; The black one ; The thermostatic man ; The sinful man ; The oracle / Gordon Challis. |
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Poetry. Parade : liberation day ; The man in the pool ; Running a risk ; Striking a pose ; Threnody ; Caroline beside the sundial ; A signal to the past ; Auto-da-fe ; from Literary cartoons. A literary tag ; The literary exile ; A serious literary slip ; The literary man observes a window to the sky / Kevin Ireland -- The parental bedroom ; Past the tin butterflies and plaster gnomes ; Lines on leaving the last reservation ; House with cat or sun ; The building ; Kumara god ; So many cenotaphs ; The happy army ; Lament for a lost generation / Peter Bland -- Note on Propertius 1.3 ; Incident ; Wife to husband ; For a five-year-old ; A game ; from Night-piece. Before sleep ; Statues ; Afterwards ; Against coupling ; Please identify yourself ; Script ; Kilpeck ; Art illustration to Dante ; Things ; The Soho Hospital for Women / Fleur Adcock -- Medusa ; Interview with Theseus ; Madre de la Vida ; Telling the neighbours ; Resthaven ; Only natural things ; from Butcher, baldy, related matters. Butcher talks on time ; from Brother Jonathan, Brother Kafka. 8, 25, 32, 43 ; In parliament grounds ; On sunny days, a thinker / Vincent O'Sullivan -- The tall wind ; Fish and chips on the merry-go-round ; The four last songs of Richard Strauss at Takahe Creek above the Kaipara ; There was a day / K.O. Arvidson -- Return from Luluabourg ; File de joie : Congo ; A marriage ; Pioneers ; River man ; The moths / Michael Jackson -- Zig-zag up a thistle ; Surprise surprise / Rachel McAlpine -- Ponsonby/remuera/my lai ; Yellow room ; Lullaby/blazing house / David Mitchell -- Mission impossible ; Man watching his wife in a play ; Temptations of St. Antony by his housekeeper ; Visiting Juliet Street ; Fr Anselm William and Br Leander Neville-- ; from Casanova's ankle. Casanova's ankle ; Casanova the technician ; Casanova's pied-à-terre ; Casanova and the shop dummy ; Casanova and the residues of indifference / Elizabeth Smither -- Before the wandering wind finally dies ; My mother spinning ; The nightman ; Thoughts of Jack Kerouac - & other things ; E flat / Peter Olds -- The stopover ; Late winter snow ; The initiation ; Trout ; A drive on the peninsula ; Country hotel ; Coming home / Brian Turner -- A white gentian ; A valley called Moonshine ; School policy on stickmen ; I cried for this man ; Stabat mater ; Every time it rains like this ; Up Battle Hill ; My father today ; Birth of a son / Sam Hunt -- The elaboration ; A death in the family ; The old man's example ; The snow ; The proposition ; The pickpocket ; The song ; A song about the moon ; Children ; An outline / Bill Manhire -- from Earthly : Sonnets for Carlos. 2 for Rose : 9, 10 ; Pathway to the sea / Ian Wedde -- My return to Czechoslovakia ; from Poems of the end wall. House / Murray Edmond. |
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Prose. The undertaker's story ; A final cure / Frank Sargeson -- A little gift for Harry ; Another kind of life / Roderick Finlayson -- Scusi ; An evening for a fish / James Courage -- All part of the game / A.P. Gaskell -- The quiet one ; Coming and going ; Under the bridge / Dan Davin -- She's all yours ; It was so late / John Reece Cole -- Blues for Miss Laverty ; Along Rideout Road that summer ; An appetite for flowers / Maurice Duggan -- Other gardens / David Ballantyne -- Dossy ; The reservoir ; The bath ; Winter garden ; Insulation ; Two widowers / Janet Frame -- The will to win ; The loners / O.E. Middleton -- One of the Titans / Renato Amato -- The girl from Kaeo ; Corrective training ; The tree / Noel Hilliard -- The morning talk / Yvonne du Fresne -- Black cat / Barry Mitcalfe -- The mace / Philip Mincher -- The losers / Maurice Gee -- Figures in light / Maurice Shadbolt -- A fitting tribute / C.K. Stead -- Duncan / Kathleen Crayford -- Fog / Russell Haley -- A way of love ; In it / Warren Dibble -- The silk ; Apple wine / Joy Cowley -- Palms and minarets ; The professional / Vincent O'Sullivan -- A way of talking ; Valley ; Between earth and sky / Patricia Grace -- Codling-moth / Margaret Sutherland -- Mr. Van Gogh ; The master of big jingles / Owen Marshall -- Freedom's ramparts / Michael Henderson -- Big Jim Cook and the wheel of God / Chris Else -- After the flood / Michael Morrissey -- A game of cards ; Big brother, little sister ; Yellow brick road / Witi Ihimaera -- Head over heels / Michael Gifkins -- The gringos / Ian Wedde -- Hooks and feelers / Keri Hulme -- When bawds and whores do churches build / Stevan Eldred-Grigg. |
| Subject |
New Zealand literature -- 20th century.
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New Zealand -- Literary collections.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature New Zealand writers, 1945- - Anthologies |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1945-1980
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Geschichte 1945-1982
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Geschichte 1945-1983
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| Added Author |
Jackson, MacDonald P. (MacDonald Pairman)
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O'Sullivan, Vincent.
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| Added Title |
New Zealand writing since 1945. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Oxford book of New Zealand writing since 1945. Auckland, New Zealand ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 (OCoLC)612933953 |
| ISBN |
0195580974 |
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9780195580976 |
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