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Kendrick Smithyman: chronology of published poems), 

as at 12/2/97
Compiled by Peter Simpson

SS = Seven Sonnets, 1946; BM = The Blind Mountain, 1950; GT = The Gay Trapeze, 1955; NS = The Night Shift, 1957; I = Inheritance, 1962; FP = Flying to Palmerston, 1968; EW = Earthquake Weather, 1972; SDP = The Seal in the Dolphin Pool, 1974; DBC = Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, 1978; SWK = Stories About Wooden Keyboards, 1985; AYGP = Are You Going to the Pictures?, 1987; SP = Selected Poems, 1989; A/B = Auto/Biographies, 1992

* = uncollected; # = poems in books previously published in journals; ** = first appearance by KS in this publication.



1941

*Magi: Christmas night. Manuka** (November 1941), 4
*Nocturne. Manuka (November 1941), 9
*Pastorale. Manuka (November 1941), 24
*Song. Manuka (November 1941), 39
*Response to H.D. Manuka (November 1941), 68

1944

*Prelude. NZ New Writing** 3 (June 1944), 18
Walk past those houses on a Sunday morning. NZ New Writing 3 (June 1944), 19 [SP]
Winter Bird ('That yellow breasted bird'), NZ Observer**, Nov 15, 1944, 12


1945

*Danish interlude 1 & 2. NZ New Writing 4 (1945), 20
*Poem (And the singular gull...). Angry Penguins** (Aust.) (1945), 103
*Song (Sweetheart, our island), NZ Observer, Mar 21, 1945, 10 [aka Between Two Seas]
*Sonnet (Deep in the unhistoric ice). Angry Penguins (1945), 104
*Sonnet in wartime (Not by any especial acts of faith). Angry Penguins (1945), 104
When August was compelling the broken branch. Angry Penguins (1945), 104 (see "August went out compelling", [I]; August struck out compelling, [SP])

1946

Amid my five great rearing senses. Book** 8 (Aug. 1946) np [BM as "You Can't Get Away"]
*Biography of no mean man. Angry Penguins (1946), 23
Double sonnet. Angry Penguins (1946), 23 [I]
Christmas ode. Rostrum** 7 (1946), 47 [BM as "from Christmas ode"]
The lovers. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ** 2 (1946), 124 
*Poem (Live by the turning hour), NZ Observer, Feb 6, 1946, 8 
Poem (Our beautiful inheritance) Meanjin** (Aust.) 5, 214; Kiwi** (1946), 23 [BM]
Poem (Your grave sad silence in the nearest midnight). Briarcliff Quarterly** (U.S.) 3, 11 (Oct. 1946), 220 [BM as "You Grave Sad Silence . . ."]
Return to Exile. Kiwi (1946), 28 [BM]
Simple Ode. Angry Penguins Broadsheet, 4, 1946, 10; also Poetry Commonwealth (UK)1 (Summer 1948), 8 [BM, SP]
*Sonnet on Ron Stenberg's "Head of Isla". Book 8 (Aug. 1946), np
This blonde girl. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ 2 (1946), 123 [SS, SP as "This blond girl: air with variation"]

Seven Sonnets, The Pelorus Press, 1946

For her found at my side like a sweet water
A winter darling that my best may know
Knowing what steps from bramble and from rose
I walk through you and enter into people
Slipped on between a sorrow and a shadow
This blonde girl carries sorrow on her shoulder# [SP]
What once was colder than a statue's eyes# [part 1 of "The Weeping Face", BM]

1947 

Anzac ceremony. Yearbook of Arts in NZ 3 (1947), 161 [BM] 
*For the unborn. Arena** 17 (Dec. 1947), 13
The green world. Kiwi (1947), 32 [BM]
*Lyric. Arena 16 (July 1947), 22
*Night piece (Beyond separable meridians), Arena 17 (Dec. 1947)
November midnight. Poetry: A Quarterly** (Aust.) 23-24 (September 1947), 29
Poem: always the stranger. Poetry Quarterly (U.K.) IX, 3 (Autumn 1947), 53 [BM]
*Statement. Kiwi (1947), 31
The suffering witness, National Education 29, September 1947, 29 [BM]
*Two poems in the return for Graham. Book 9 (July 1947), np
*Vilanelle. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ 3 (1947), 161
The weeping face. Landfall** I (1947),193 [BM]
What more dear I tell is in me. Kiwi (1947), 33 [BM]

1948

*Allegory. Yearbook of Arts in NZ 4 (1948), 196
*Call. Arena 18 (April 1948), 4
CONSIDERATIONS OF NORFOLK ISLAND
High in the Afternoon the dove
Cascade
Kingston
A knot of song, columbine fugue
Headstone Bay
Walk, boy, that soft ground softly. Landfall II (1948), 267 [I, SP, as CONSIDERATIONS in different versions]
*First meeting. Kiwi (1948), 42
*Four stanzas. Landfall II (1948), 265
The hanging judge. Kiwi (1948), 43 [BM]
Landscape of love and time. Kiwi (1948), 44 [BM as "Time", SP as "Time in Your Maiden Head"]
* Legends of the gunner and his girl. Circle** (U.S.)10 (Summer 1948), 89
Lived by the strangers. Poetry Quarterly X, 1 (Spring 1948), 13 [BM]
*The mirror prospect. Kiwi (1948), 43
*Morning song. Arena 18 (April 1948), 4
*Nursery song. Arena 18 (April 1948), 5
Poem for a winter birth. Landfall II (1948), 266 [SP]
Simple Ode. Poetry Commonwealth**(UK)1 (Summer 1948), 8; see also Angry Penguins Broadsheet, 1946 [BM, SP]
*Summer answers the year's questions. Arena 18 (April 1948), 5
*What is it to be Orpheus? Landfall II (1948), 264

1949 

*Allegory of her make me, whose mood. Matrix** (U.S.) XII, 2 (December 1949), 72
*Evangel. Arena 22 (1949), 6
*Fable. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ 5 (1949), 140
*For more than one occasion. Poetry Commonwealth 4 (Spring 1949), 6
*How should I say what silence in that year, Matrix XII, 2 (December 1949), 72
Icarus. NZ Listener 521 (June 17, 1949), 15 [BM, SP]
*Indifferent planets. Southerly** (Aust.) X, 3 (1949), 139
*Lay the cold image. Arena 20 (March 1949), 3
*The memorial. Poetry Quarterly XI, 1 (Spring 1949), 6 
*Paul Nash: An Elegy. The University of Kansas City Review XV, 4 (Summer 1949), 312
View of the city, in oil. Hilltop** I, 2 (1949), 15 [BM]
*What angel wrestling. Arena 20 (March 1949), 3
*Wry-billed plover. Arena 22 (1949), 6

1950 

*Cascade. Landfall II (1948), 267
Dirge for two clavichords and bowler hat. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ 6 (1950), 142 [FP, SP]
*Emblems. Landfall IV (1950), 221
*From the city westward. Arena 19 (1950), 1
*Marriage song. Wooden Horse**I, 3 (October 1950), 13
*Should death sing each. Arena 24 (1950), 19
*The single fisherman. Southerly XI, 2 (1950), 67
*Song: nor separation nor nearness. Arachne** 1 (1950), 16
*Whatipu. Here & Now** (November 1950), 29

The Blind Mountain (Caxton, 1950)
To Mary Stanley
Island discourse
Simple ode#
Return to exile#
Anzac ceremony#
From their fond shore
Icarus#
Bream Bay
Die bauernhochzeit
A work of El Greco
You grave sad silence#
You can't get away#
From Christmas ode#
Familiar girl
Our beautiful inheritance#
The green world#
What more dear#
My Mneme walking always
Time#
The blind mountain
The cloud, the man, the dream
Lived by the strangers#
The eyes
The hanging judge#
The search
The suffering witness#
Always the stranger#
The weeping face#
Partisan journey
Der doppelganger
View of the city, in oil#
Easter Sunday

1951 

*Carrion crow. Kiwi (1951), 33
*Correct, then, the ritual of their flight. NZ Poetry Yearbook 1 (1951), 59
*Evening, outside Auckland. Outposts **(U.K.) 19 (Summer 1951), 8
*Individual song on the left wing. Here & Now ( May 1951), 26
*Journey towards Easter. Landfall V (1951), 146
*Merry, ah, to meet him then, this friend. NZ Poetry Yearbook** 1 (1951), 58
*No penny for the guy. Yrbk of the Arts in NZ 7 (1951), 100
*Question in mid-morning passage. Arena 28 (1951), 4
*She drops her hand upon a book of hours. NZ Poetry Yearbook 1 (1951), 59
*Someone explodes his sight. Arena 29 (1951), 25

A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-1950, chosen by Allen
Curnow, The Caxton Press, 1951
CONSIDERATIONS OF NORFOLK ISLAND, pp. 206-09
High in the afternoon the dove#
Cascade#
Kingston#
A knot of song, columbine fugue#
Headstone Bay#
Walk, boy, that soft ground softly#

1952 

*Aubade. Kiwi (1952), 68
*Claudius, who temporarily wrought. Here & Now (Aug. 1952), 8
*Crazed heaven swung in a bag. Here & Now (June 1952), 26
The little rat.... Here & Now (Aug. 1952), 36 [SP in "Occasions"]
*Northern story. Here & Now (Jan 1952), 4
*Of death by water. NZ Poery Yrbk 2 (1952), 69
*Paihia remembered. Here & Now (Feb. 1952), 18
*Sir Zither Swatkin and the mutton bird. Here & Now (Mar. 1952), 41
*Song (The single fisherman pulls home). Arena 31 (1952), 27
Wilde was entitled...Here & Now (Sept 1952), 27 [SP in "Occasions"]

13 New Zealand Poets, edited by Robert Thompson, The Handcraft Press, 1952
Arrival at Noon [I]
*Forefathers 
*Lines to an elder son
Report on the social arts [as "A Note on the Social Arts", FP, SP]

1953 

Day of Advent. Arena 34 (1953), 5 [FP]
*Elegy against a latter day. Landfall VII (1953), 99
*Evening Music. Poems from The Outlook** (1953), 20
Feast of Pentecost. NZ Poetry Yrbk 3 (1953), 97 [FP]
*Infantry story. Here & Now (April 1953), 31
The mouse in the apple tree. Here & Now (Nov-Dec. 1953), 31 [SP in "Occasions"]
*A music for things to come. Here & Now (July 1953), 28
*Sigh for a crooked Caesar. NZ Poetry Yrbk 3 (1953), 96
*Then. Arena 36 (1953), 9
Venus ascending from foam-footed evening. Here & Now (Nov-Dec. 1953), 29 [SP in "Occasions"]
Vision by Mather's Farm. NZ Poetry Yrbk 3 (1953), 98 [I, SP]
*Wave. NZ Listener 728 (June 26 1953), 11
*Winter's tale. Arena 34 (1953), 4



1954 

The Art of Florio. NZ Poetry Yrbk 4 (1954), 86 [FP]
*Cahier de Minuit. Arena 37 (1954), 4
*Discourse on settlement. Landfall VIII (1954), 15
*Long Island Sound. NZ Listener 798 ( Nov. 5, 1954), 24
*The morning watch. NZ Poetry Yrbk 4 (1954), 85
*Negative of negation. Numbers**1 (July 1954), 27
*New settlers. NZ Poetry Yrbk 4 (1954), 83
*Now, if only now. Arena 38 (1954), 22; also NZ Poetry Yearbook 4 (1954), 84
*Personal Poem. Arena 39 (1954), 14
Serenade. NZ Poetry Yrbk 4 (1954), 84 [FP]
Sonnet (The begging sonnet burning on his hands), Outposts 25 (1954), 3
*Terminus. Arena 39 (1954), 15
*There was a poem. Numbers 1 (July 1954), 28
*This morning compassion breaking through the glass. Here & Now (Oct. 1954), 32
The Victims. Arena 39 (1954), 14 [FP]

1955 

*At your right hand. Arena 40 (1955), 21
*Boy. NZ Listener 833 (July 15, 1955), 25
*Country town. Arena 42 (1955), 9
*Foreign service. NZ Listener 807, Jan 14, 1955, 19
*Incidental music for The Dream. NZ Poetry Yrbk 5 (1955), 68
1. Philostrate
2. Bottom
3. Quartet
4. Two voices from the flies
5.The fifth act of Duke Theseus
6. Producer to his Puck
Inheritance. Landfall IX (1955), 12 [I, SP]
Kemp's passing. Arena 41 (1955), 3 [I]
*Pattern. Arena 42 (1955), 9
*Poem: of the ruins. Numbers 3 (June 1955), 19
*Sentimental piece for our lost youth. NZ Poetry Yearbk 5 (1955), 74
*Shower in September. NZ Listener 847 (Oct 21, 1955), 25
*Two backward looks for Mister C. NZ Poetry Yrbk 5 (1955), 75

The Gay Trapeze, Handcraft Press, 1955
Thinking of Otto Petterson
Friar Lawrence's farewell
1832
Precincts of the marble faun
Tent show on the green
Something childish [SP]


1956 

*Cathay. Arena 45 (1956), 9; Best Poems**(U.S.), 1956, 85
*Grafton Gully. Arena 44 (1956), 12
Lines for the gay deceiver. NZ Listener 898 (Oct 19, 1956), 21 [FP]
*Notturno, tempo agitato. Arena 43 (1956), 24
Sonnet (tenderly towards morning) NZ Listener 860 (Jan 27, 1956), 13 [I]

An Anthology of New Zealand Verse, selected by Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett, Oxford University Press, 1956
Walk past those houses on a Sunday morning#
This blonde girl#
High in the afternoon the dove#
Icarus#
*The moment
*Waiwera
*Could you once regain
Dirge for two clavichords and bowler hat# 
Personal poem#
Evening music#
*The night walkers
Elegy against a latter day#
*Defenceless children, your great enemy
Incident at Matauri [SP]

1957 

Cousin Emily and the night visitor. NZ Poetry Yrbk 6 (1956-7), 58 [I]
Sinfonia Domestica. NZ Poetry Yrbk 6 (1967-57), 60 [I]
*Tradition and the individual talent. NZ Poetry Yrbk 6 (1956-57), 59

The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love (with James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson), Capricorn Press, 1957
Invitation
Old wives' songs
Wounds of love
Cave canem
From flood being upheld
Footnote to a common folly
Two sitting late at night [SP]
Kermesse
The declaration
End of day


1958 

Climbing in the Himalayas. NZ Poetry Yrbk 8 (1958-9), 68 [I, SP]
*A divination. NZ Poetry Yrbk 7 (1957-8), 62
Gathering the Toheroa. Image 2 (April 1958), 24 [FP, SP]
*Good beasts to compose. Image 3, (Aug. 1958), 17
*Hill country snapshot. Numbers 8 (July 1958), 52
How to dispose of Ajax. Image 3 (Aug. 1958), 18 [I, SP]
Kingfisher song. Image**1 (Jan 1958), 9 [I, SP]
Mister Virgil in his latter days. Image 1 (Jan. 1958), 7 [FP]
Perseus. Numbers 8 (July 1958), 52[FP]
*A sketch in Autumn. Image 1 (Jan. 1958), 7
Sunday morning. Image 2 (April 1958), 25 [FP, SP]
Venice preserved. Image 1 (Jan. 1958), 8 [FP]
*Viewing the swans. Arena 48 (1958), 9
*What happened to Alice. Arena 49 (1958), 13
*A windy day at the typewriter. Image 2 (April 1958), 25
Zoo. Image 2 (April 1958), 23 [I, SP]

1959 

After Battle. Image 5 (Apr. 1959), 22 [I]
After. Image 6 (Aug. 1959), 15 [I, SP]
*At your one sounding shell. Image 5 (April 1959), 21
*Cold War. Arena 51 (1959), 26
Coming Home. Image 5 (April 1959), 21 [FP]
Full Moon. Numbers 10 (Oct. 1959), 17 [FP]
*Little oration for being a little dead. Numbers 9 (Feb. 1959), 25
Pasiphae's daughters. Image 6 (Aug. 1959), 13 [I, SP]
*Song with an attitude. NZ Poetry Yrbk 8 (1958-9),67; Image 6 (Aug. 1959), 15 [I]
Speaking to a youngest son. NZ Poetry Yearbk 8 (1958-59), 69 [SP]
A thing remembered. Image 6 (Aug. 1959), 14 [I, SP]
Waikato railstop. NZ Poetry Yrbk 8 (1958-59), 70 [I, SP]
Wednesday. Image 6 (Aug. 1959), 12 [I]
*Young Jacob and the appetite of reality. Numbers 10 (Oct. 1959), 17

1960 

Air for two voices. Landfall XIV (1960), 119 [I]
*Below Whenuapai. NZ Poetry Yrbk 9 (1960), 90
*Colonial study. NZ Monthly Review**, 1 (May 1960), 4
Dvorak, Quintet no.3 in E flat major. NZ Poetry Yrbk 9 (1960), 84 [FP, SP]
*Fable winter. Mate** 6 (Dec. 1960), 49
Flight of fancy. NZ Poetry Yrbk 9 (1960), 89 [FP]
High wind at Wheturangi. Image 7 (Aug. 1960), 25 [I]
*Memorial speech from Taupiri. NZ Monthly Review 7 (Nov. 1960), 4
Parable of Two Talents, Landfall XIV (1960), 117 [I, SP]
*Pygmalion's defence. Image 7 (Aug. 1960), 26
Remarkable flight of 20 phoenix birds. Mate 6 (Dec. 1960), 48 [EW]
*Responsibility. Arena 53 (1960), 18
SNAPSHOTS FROM THE PIGMAN'S GAZETTE
The Pigman amorous
The Pigman militant 
The Pigman visionary. NZ Poetry Yearbk 9 (1960), 86-87 [I, SP]
*Song after supper. Landfall XIV (1960), 119
*Street corner mission. NZ Monthly Review 4 (Aug. 1960), 4
*Waltz. Arena 53 (1960), 18

The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, edited by Allen Curnow, Penguin, 1960
Anzac ceremony#
The cloud, the man, the dream#
Der doppelganger#
Journey towards Easter: Part One#
Report on the social arts#
Hint for the incomplete angler [FP]

1961 

Reminiscence. Image 8 (Aug. 1961), 19 [FP]
*SONNETS FOR MIGRANTS
Stiff work for hands...
Poised, accident they lived...
Was it a great deliverer... Arena 55 (1961), 5
*South-west of summer. Image 8 (Aug. 1961), 19
To be absent without leave. NZ Monthly Review 17 (Oct 1961), 4 [I, SP]
*Western Springs. Image 8 (Aug. 1961), 20

1962 

Commentary. NZ Poetry Yrbk 10 (1961-2), 78 [FP]
*Conditional Song. NZ Monthly Review 21 (March 1962), 4
The morepork, NZ Poetry Yrbk 10 (1961-2), 79 [FP]
*Tern. NZ Poetry Yrbk 10 (1961-62), 80
Tryeplev. NZ Monthly Review 23 (May 1962), 4 [FP]
*The widow's air. NZ Monthly Review 27 (Sept. 1962), 4

Inheritance, Paul's Book Arcade, 1962
Inheritance#
CONSIDERATIONS
Headstone Bay#
A knot of song#
Kingston#
Cascade#
High in the afternoon the dove#
Walk, boy, that soft ground softly#
Plover
Overseas posting
Arrival at noon#
Homesick, not amused
Summer night to the lovers
The Sisters
Air for two voices#
Song in wartime
After#
A wanton song
Song with an attitude#
Sinfonia Domestica#
Kingfisher song#
August went out compelling#
Lady as swan
Moonrise
To be absent without leave#
Apologia
Double sonnet#
Seven days leave
A thing remembered#
Night in August
Wednesday#
Waikato railstop#
Vision by Mather's farm#
Alarm without excursion
Parable of two talents#
After battle#
Climbing in the Himalayas#
Zoo#
Porcupine fish
Kemp's passing#
Cousin Emily and the night visitor#
How to dispose of Ajax#
Pasiphae's daughters#
SNAPSHOTS FROM THE PIGBREEDERS' GAZETTE
The Pigman visionary#
The Pigman militant#
The Pigman amorous#
Outlooks
High wind at Wheturangi#
Sonnet tenderly towards morning#
Muriwai 1957
End of year


Landfall Country: Work from Landfall 1947-61, edited by Charles Brasch, Caxton, 1962
Parable of Two Talents#



1964 

*Hearing that a kinsman had been translated. Craccum** XXXVIII, 2 (Mar. 24), 1964, 9
*Peter Quince. Craccum IIIVIII, 2 (Mar 24, 1964), 8


1965 

*Grotesques. Kiwi (1965), 56
* The Invaders, a perspective. Argot** 14 (Winter 1965), 5
*Te Aute. Argot 14 (Winter 1965), 6

Recent Poetry in New Zealand, edited by Charles Doyle, Collins, 1965
After battle#
Alarm without excursion#
Climbing in the Himalaya#
Parable of two talents#
Gathering the toheroa#
Good beasts to compose#
How to dispose of Ajax#
The Pigman visionary#
Zoo#
Waikato railstop#
Just an evening in the ranges [FP]
Apologia#

1966 

*August 66. Poetry Eastwest II (1968), 19
*Beach haven. Argot 15 (Winter 1966), 13
Blackleg. Poetry Australia** 9 (1966), 31 [FP, SP]
The blue coat. Argot 15 (Winter 1966), 12 [FP]
*Excavation. NZ Monthly Review 71 (Sept 1966), 4
Felled macrocarpas. Arena 66 (1966), 18 [FP, SP]
Flying to Palmerston. Dispute** (July-Aug 1966), 18 [FP, SP]
*Fragment from a dynastic comedy. Argot 15 (Winter 1966), 14
*In the antipodes. Argot 15 (Winter 1966), 21
*Mephisto's serenade. Poetry Australia 9 (1966), 30
Mr Moriarty and the ferry. Poetry Australia 11 (1966), 22 [FP]
*Near the customshouse. Arena 65 (1966),17
*Not a poem for armistice day. Comment** 29 (Dec. 1966), 41
Tam Lin pursued. Poetry Australia 13 (1966), 8 [FP]

1967 

Building Programme. Landfall XXI (1967), 24 [EW]
Communicating. Landfall XXI (1967), 129 [EW]
*Difficult evidence. Mate 15 (Spring 1967), 24
From Wyuna, Landfall XXI (1967), 128 [EW]
In our manner of speaking. Landfall XXI (1967),125 [EW]
Legal fiction. Landfall XXI (1967), 127 [EW]
*Near Mahurangi. Arena 68 (1967), 7
*November 6. Westerly ** (Aust.) 2 (1967), 17
*Observation. Arena 67 (1967), 16
*Old wives songs three. Westerly 3 (1967), 27
*Pluvian. Westerly 2 (1967), 16
*Proven Chorus. Mate 15 (Spring 1967), 22
Saturday July second. Balcony**(Aust.) 6 (Summer 1967), 24 [FP]
*Six Contredances. Poetry Australia 18 (October 1967), 31
*Take my name. Outposts (U.K.) 75 (Winter 1967), 2
27 January. Landfall XXI (1967), 126 [EW]

1968 

*Aspects of January, half past four. Poetry Australia 21 (1968), 22
At Ti Point. Meanjin 27, 4 (1968), 454 [EW]
*August 1966. Poetry Eastwest (U.S.) II (1968), 19 
Colville. Westerly 3 (October 1968), 33 [EW, SP]
Coromandel. Landfall XXII (1968), 385 [EW]
*Diving gannet, Coromandel. NZ Monthly Review 88 (April 1968), 20
How to make a mountain in six modes. Poet** (India) 1968, 14 [EW]
*Night piece (Late of a summer's night), NZ Listener 1507 (Aug. 23, 1968), 10
*Oystercatcher. Southern Review III, 1, 1968, 55
*Port Jackson. Mate 16 (Spring 1968), 14
*A quarter to eleven. Arena 69 (1968), 10
Research project. Landfall XXII (1968), 384 [EW]
*Sunday morning at Long Bay. Meanjin, XXVII, 2 (1968), 200
*Value is the thing itself. Arena 69 (1968), 10

Flying to Palmerston, AUP/OUP, 1968
Felled Macrocarpas#
Day of advent#
Who gathered samphire
Original sin a suburban prospect
Tam Lin pursued#
Appointment in Samara
Old folks at the home
Demolishing the farmhouse
VIGNETTES OF THE MAORI WARS
Mangatawhiri Stream
Baptism of fire 1862
The attack on Rangiaowhia
Autumn elms
Coming home#
A note on the social arts#
Dirge for two clavichords and bowler hat#
Tryeplyev#
Gathering the toheroa#
The Bay 1942
Congress
Widow's walk
For Andries
Hint for the incomplete angler#
Blackleg#
Breaking in hill country
Stargazing
Mulgrave, on the fish
Saturday July 2#
Goldleaf, goatskin, armour
The feast of pentecost#
The art of Florio#
Mister Virgil in his latter days#
Dvorak, quintet no. 3 in E flat major#
Re: Ffulk
Mr Moriarty and the ferry#
Flying to Palmerston#
What do I get from the estate?
Lines for the gay deceiver#
The morepork#
Sunday morning#
Reminiscence#
Just an evening in the ranges#
February spills the creek
Commentary#
Serenade#
The victims#
Venice preserved#
Ritualists
Sixteen
Perseus#
Love song
Off again to Ithica
A little marriage song for Juliet
Fifth month
Offering to a local figure
Proposition
Flight of fancy#
Allegory sonnet
Full moon#
Slow flame
The blue coat#


1969 

*Aubade. Arena 72 (December 1969), 9
Between, Poetry and Audience**(U.K.)XVI, 12 (1969), n.p.
Easby in Swaledale. Poetry Australia 30 (1969), 37 [EW]
For Kate Barnard, painter. Westerly 3 (October 1969), 24 [EW]
For Martin Bell, poet. Westerly 3 (October 1969), 25 [EW]
Going to Hull. Arena 72 (1969),9 [EW]
*The invaders, a perspective. Argot (March 1969), 20
Maiden Stone, Aberdeenshire. Poetry Australia 30 (1969), 38 [EW]
Marking essays. Frontiers** I, 4, (Feb. 1969), 5 [EW
One Saturday on extension, Poetry and Audience XVI, 10 (1969), n.p.
*Oystercatcher. Southern Review** (Aust.) 3 (1968-9), 55
*Passing Time. Arena 72 (1969), 9
Spring thunder, Leeds. Southern Review (1968-69), 334 [EW]
York minster. Poetry Australia 30 (1969), 38 [EW]

1970 

An engaving on steel. Meanjin 29, 1 (1970), 37 [EW]
A fable of critics. Mate 18 (May 1970), 23 [EW]
Please. Mate 18 (May 1970),22 [EW]
Reflections from Golden Gate 1. Landfall XXIV (1970), 160 [EW, SP]
Reflections from Golden Gate 2. Landfall XXIV (1970), 160 [EW, SP]
Rewa river. Poetry Australia 35 (1970), 30 [EW]
Strandloopers. Westerly 2 (July 1970), 14 [EW]

An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Poetry, edited by Vincent O'Sullivan, Oxford University Press, 1970
Simple ode#
Die Bauernhochzeit#
Anzac ceremony#
High in the afternoon the dove#
After#
To be absent without leave#
A thing reemembered#
Waikato railstop#
Parable of two talents#
A note on the social arts#
Hint for the incomplete angler#
Blackleg#
Night piece#

1971 

*After the last examiners' meeting: Arena 76 (1971), 7
Awakening of San Francisco for conversion. Poetry Australia 41 (1971), 11 [SDP]
*Backwater. Poetry Australia 39 (1971), 23
Brimham. Poetry Australia 39 (1971), 24 [EW]
*Cambridge at Night Edge** I,1 (1971), 16 
The day they freed the Indians. Tuatara**(Canada) 5 (July 1971), 59-60 [SDP]
Edzell castle. Poetry Australia 38 (1971), 21; also in Newsletter of Association of Scottish Literary Studies**, II, 2 & 3 (March 1972), 54 [SDP]
Haworth Church. Arena 76 (1971), 7 [SDP]
Idyll. Poetry Australia 41 (1971), 9 [SDP, SP]
King's College chapel. Edge I, 2, (Aug 1971), 56 [SDP]
Lagoon. Poetry Australia 38 (1971), 23 [EW]
The mouth of Ythan. Southern Review (Aust.) IV, 4 (1971), 337 [SDP]
My father in Customs Street. Poetry Australia 41 (1971), 10 [SDP]
An ordinary day beyond Kaitaia. Poetry New Zealand** 1 (1971), 88 [EW, SP]
Smoke for where there's fire. Tuatara 5 (July 1971), 59 [SDP]
Tintern. Edge I,1 (1971), 17 [EW]
White carp. Edge I, 2 (Aug 1971), 57 [SDP]

1972 

Above Telegraph Hill. NZ Univ. Arts Fest. Yrbk 1972; also Pembroke Magazine 5, 1974 (U.S.), 90 [SDP]
Biography. Mate 21 (December 1972), 52 [SDP, SP]
A chip of marble. Southern Review (1972), 241 [SDP]
English effigies. Landfall XXVI (1972), 232 [SDP, SP]
Farmers. Meanjin 31, 2 (1972), 158 [SDP]
Getting to sleep. Lipsync 2 (Dec. 1972), 20 [DBC, SP]
Hayrake. Mate 20 (May 1972), 32 [SDP]
Issue. Lipsync 1 (Aug. 1972), 9 [DBC]
January tenting. Mate 20 (May 1972), 33 [SDP]
Live or die. Lipsync 1 (Aug. 1972), 10 [DBC]
*Not beyond hearing. Arena 78 (Dec. 1972), 9
*Nouns without shadows. Arena 77 (1972), 19
Resort. Lipsync 2 (Dec. 1972), 8 [DBC]
The spaceman's complaint. Mate 21 (Dec. 1972), 51 [SDP]
Theirs/A Caveat for Comon Cursitors. Newsletter, Assoc. for Scottish Literary Studies,II, 2 & 3 (March 1972), 56 [SDP]
Underwater pieces. Mate 20 (May 1972), 30 [SDP]
The visiting professor's reception. NZ Universities Literary Yrbk 1972, 38 [SDP, SP]
Waking. Newsletter, Assoc. of Scottish Literary Studies,II, 2 & 3 (March 1972), 57 [SDP]


Earthquake Weather, AUP/OUP, 1972
Semantics
Pigeons without grass, alas
Nothing propounded
Research project#
Legal fiction#
Colville#
Coromandel#
Please#
At Ti Point#
Selby
Tintern#
For Kate Barnard, painter#
For Martin Bell, poet#
A fable of critics#
A partial biography, a roar of silence
Death of a hero
A lore of storms
Versions of pastoral
Fletchers Bay
Loitering with intent
Hail
Brimham#
Marking essays#
27 January#
Going to Hull#
Remarkable flight of twenty phoenix birds#
Three owl pieces
Transit lounge, Singapore
Rome terminal
Frankfurt
Rewa River#
Near Ellon
Maiden Stone, Aberdeenshire#
York minster#
Kirkstall Abbey
Easby in Swaledale#
Puriri trees at Ti Point
About verbs
From Wyuna#
A showing forth by day of the Nankeen kestrel#
How to make a mountain in six modes#
Law, streets
Reflections from Golden Gate (1)#
Reflections from Golden Gate (2)#
Building programme#
Lagoon#
Spring thunder, Leeds#
Spring pause
In our manner of speaking#
An engraving on steel#
Communicating#
Strandloopers#
An ordinary day beyond Kaitaia#


1973 

In the tropics. Westerly 2 (June 1973), 25 [SDP]
Movements, for coastal voices. Islands**3 (Autumn 1973), 81 [SWK, SP]
*Voyage to Laputa. Arena 79 (July 1973), 6

1974 

North Riding town. Landfall XXVIII (1974), 150 [DBC]
Circus at the barber's shop, Landfall XXVIII (1974), 150 [DBC, SP]
Dwarf, with a billiard cue, Landfall XXVIII (1974), 150 [DBC]
Intersecting plains. Poetry NZ II (1974) 1974, 96 [DBC, SP]
Above Telegraph Hill. Pembroke Magazine 5, 1974 (U.S.), 90; see also NZ Univ. Arts Fest. Yrbk 1972; [SDP]


The Seal in the Dolphin Pool, AUP/OUP, 1974
A line of song, Pately Moor
Inlet
A chip of marble#
Underwater pieces#
The spaceman's complaint#
White carp: Japanese peace gardens, UBC#
Hayrake#
Biography#
Smoke for where there's fire#
The day they freed the Indians#
In the tropics#
Herd#
Horse in chalk
January tenting#
Other worlds
Idyll#
Salt
Going
Awakening of San Fransisco, for conversion#
The visiting professor's reception#
Above Telegraph Hill#
Islington
My father in Customs street#
Farmers#
Waking#
King's College chapel#
St Mary's Beverly
The seal in the dolphin pool#
Theorem, of strategies
The mouth of Ythan#
Theirs/A caveat for common cursitors#
Tomarata
Free enterprise
Haworth parsonage#
Double exposure
Wanting
Dried out station
Side issue
Community studies
North and west
Wayside
Out of sight
East Coast
A riddle at Christmas
Culsh earth house
The bee tree
Where Waikawau stream comes out
Edzell castle#
English effigies# 


1975 

Hitching. Mate 24 (May 1975), 70 [DBC, SP]
*Larkfall, thunder. Arena 81 (February 1975), 21
The simple life in New Zealand, 1986. Mate 24 (May 1975), 69 [DBC]
*Sympathies. Arena 81 (February 1975), 21
*Welsh Poppy. Creative Moment** (U.S.) IV, 1 (Spring 1975), 4


1976 

Herd. Poetry New Zealand III (1976), 89 [SDP, SP]
The seal in the dolphin pool, Poetry New Zealand III (1976), 88 [SDP, SP]

An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Verse, ed. O'Sullivan, 2nd edition, OUP, 1976
Building Programme#
Colville#
In our manner of speaking#
Underwater pieces #
Idyll#

1977 

After Zhivago. Comment 1,1 (October 1977), 14; Poetry New Zealand IV (1979), 71 [SWK, SP]



1978 

The last Moriori. Islands 23 (1978), 10; Poetry NZ IV (1979), 70 [SWK, SP]
Skateboarding with Lewis Carroll. Islands 23 (1978), 69 [SWK, SP]
Reading the maps an academic exercise. Islands 24 (1978),131 [SWK, SP]

Dwarf, with a Billiard Cue, AUP, 1978
Friday night
Exchanging cards
Travelling south
After Zhivago#
Still life
The man who wrote short stories
Live, or die#
Getting to sleep
Signs
Science fiction 
Issue#
At the islands, Toronto
Demolition: Building the university
Field notes
In the Gatineau hills
Neighbourhoods
The simple life in New Zealand 1886#
Circus at the barber's shop#
North Riding Town#
Dwarf, with a billiard cue#
August at the cirque d'hiver
Telling the true tale
Of Rapunzel and others
Portrait of the artist as a bachelor
Hitching#
About setting a jar on a hill
Resort#
Backwaters
Lament, for a North Island land association
Intersecting plains#
Monodies for


1979 

*Marina. A Cabbage Press Anthology, ed. Harry Sinclair and Karen Rutherford, 1979, 24




1980 

Dreams, responsibilities. Kiwi (1980), np [SWK]
Small Sonata. Humanities Review** (India), II 3/4 (October-December 1980), 12; see also Landfall XXXVI (1982), 52 [SWK]

15 Contemporary New Zealand Poets, edited by Alistair
Paterson, Pilgrims South Press, 1980
Hitching#
Getting to sleep#
Dwarf with a billiard cue#
from Backwaters#
from Intersecting plains#
After Zhivago#
Circus at the barber's shop#


1981 

Of sorts. Still Life After Kafka (1981), 46 [SWK]
Stories about wooden keyboards. Still Life After Kafka (1981), 47 [SWK,SP]

1982 

Waitomo. Northern Lights (Canada), January 1982 [SWK]
Levertov's Hypocrite Women. Northern Lights (Canada), January 1982 [SWK]
*Reading the Daily. Landfall XXXVI (1982), 52
Ghost Town. Landfall XXXVI (1982), 52 [SWK]
Party-going: London, Ontario. Tango, a literary Rage** (1982), 30 [AYGP]
*Walking campus: London, Ontario. Tango, a Literary Rage (1982), 31
*Housing scheme: London, Ontario. Tango, a literary Rage (1982), 32

1983 

Crossroads, Ontario. Centennial Poets, Mt Pleasant Press, University of Auckland, 1983

The Oxford Book of New Zealand Writing Since 1945, ed Mac Jackson and Vincent O'Sullivan, OUP, 1983
Anzac ceremony#
High in the afternoon a 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#

1984 

Baucke. Span 19 (October 1984), 37 [SWK, SP]
Peehi/Best. Span** 19 (October 1984), 35 [SWK, SP]
Pomare. Span 19 (October 1984), 40 [SWK, SP]
*Privilege. Islands 33 (1984), 57
Rinaua/Lindauer. Span 19 (October 1984), 38 [SWK, SP]
Te Rangi Hiroa/Buck, Span 19 (October 1984), 41 [SWK, SP]
Variations on a poem of Ondra Lysohorsky. Islands 33 (1984), 58 [SWK]
from WESTCOAST
  *Period of adjustment,
  *He
  *Beside the harbour
  *Everything that lives is holy
  *Point of debate
  *Bussing
  *Shock treatment. Landfall XXXVIII (1986), 52



The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock, OUP, 1984
An Ordinary day beyond Kaitaia#
Friday night#
Resort#
The last Moriori#

1985 

*Airport, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 7
Deconstructing. Ariel, XVI, 4 (October 1985), 47 [SWK, SP]
God rest you merry at halloween, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 305 [AYGP, SP]
A letter to James Ensor from the CPR, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 305 [AYGP]
One night stand, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 7 [AYGP]
*Ontario pictures, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 305
Papeete, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 7 [AYGP]
Salut au monde, Landfall XXXIX (1985), 7 [AYGP]
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Landfall XXXIX (1987), 305
[AYGP, SP]

The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, edited by Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen, 1985
Hint for the incomplete angler#
Colville 1984#
Tomarata#
Circus at the barber's shop#

Stories About Wooden Keyboards, AUP, 1985
Dreams, responsibilities#
With no
Levertov's hypocrite women
Stories about wooden keyboards#
Skateboarding with Lewis Carroll#
For the record
Deconstructing#
Background music (1)
Ghost town#
Whoever
The last Moriori#
Promise
Small sonata#
Mountain stop
Hole in the ground
Pivoting
Sylvia
Legend of Sara's gully
Movements for coastal voices#
Reading the maps an academic exercise#
395
After Ondra Lysohorsky#
Pasternak: theme with variations
Pasternal: the making of a poet
Fin de belle epoque: Misia's view
Death in Venice: Diaghilev
Seventy years
Place
Closedown
Klynham
Perhaps parable perhaps politics
Backgroud music (2)
Of sorts#
Waitomo
Kirititehere
Writing on the wall
One Sunday about the long river
High noon and after
ChristChurch yard, 1984
ELDERS
Peehi/Best#
Baucke#
Rinaua/Lindauer#
Pomare#
Te Rangi Hiroa/Buck#


1986 

*Ed. The Dinosaur Review**(Canada), VIII (Summer 1986), 26 
*NIGHT RIDING AND OTHER PAPAHURIHIA POEMS 
Night Riding
John Warren, 1853
Uplifting
Convoy
Omanaia 1847
His dream, his song
The book of the dragon. Span 23 (Sepember 1986), 35
*Not teaching, only being taught. Rambling Jack**3 (November 1986), 29
Pieces. Untold** 5 (Autumn 1986), 49 [AYGP, SP]
*Ralph. The Dinosaur Review (Canada), VIII (Summer 1986), 24
Screenplays 1/2/3. Landfall XL (1986), 277 [AYGP, SP]
Timothy. The Dinosaur Review (Canada), VIII (Summer 1986), 25 [AYGP]


An Informal Occasion in the English Department for Peter Dane, Bill Pearson, Karl Stead: 5 December 1986
*Peter Dane retiring
*Yes (C.)K.S.: an August tributary
*Words for Bill Pearson

1987 

*Candidates should attempt to answer all the questions. NZ Journal of History** XXI, 2 (April 1987), 5
Death of a stuntman. Poetry Australia 110 (1987), 38 [AYGP]
Running to Marathon. Poetry Australia 110 (1987) 34 [AYGP]
Trout quintet. Poetry Australia 110 (1987), 34 [AYGP, SP]
untold tales. Untold 8 (Spring 1987), 30 [A/B]

The Caxton Press Anthology New Zealand Poetry 1972-1986, edited by Mark Williams, Caxton, 1987
The seal in the dolphin pool#
Science fiction#
Dreams, responsibilities#
Stories about wooden keyboards#
Deconstructing#
Waitomo#
Hole in the ground#

Are You Going to the Pictures?, AUP 1987
Birthday poem
Schooling
Meeting Feodor first
Meeting Feodor second
Meeting Feodor three
Statement of fact after Reds
Bit players
Screen plays 1/2/3#
FOUR SHOTS FROM ONE CAMPAIGN
  Taurus
  Saturn ascendant
  Mars
  Sagittarius
Travelling to LA
Salut au monde#
One night stand#
Over Lethbridge
Timothy#
God rest you merry at halloween in Hamilton Ontario#
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day in Hamilton Ontario#
Partygoing in London (Ont)#
Alice: about Rose
A postcard to Perdita
A letter to James Ensor from the CPR#
Papeete#
CONSTITUTION HILL AND THEREABOUTS
  What I'd like to think on Constitution Hill
  Waterfront down
  Fire on the mountain
  Running to Marathon#
Supposes
Pests
ALISDAIR
  Bringing up Alisdair
  Alisdair solo duo
  Hair
  Vocation
  Craft
  Travellers
  Alisdair, opera
  Portrait of the artist
  Alisdair dreaming
  Harbour
Peter Durey's story
John 17. 9-10
Frank
Propositions about jelly beans
SILENT MOVIES
  Norsemen
  Educational
  Blue movies
  Instructional
  L'Idee
Incentives, drives
Mister Nakamura
Trout quintet: shooting script#
Suitable intervals
TRIO
  Talking at Constantine
  Faith's
  Whakatane
Death of a stuntman#
Welcoming new members
A passage to India
Pieces#
60: 13# 47

1988 

April, Landfall XLII (1988), 421 [as ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS, A/B]
December, Landfall XLII (1988), 421 [as ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS, A/B]
Giraffes. NZ Listener 121 (6 August 1988), 13 [A/B]
May, Landfall XLII (1988), 421 [as ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS, A/B]
July 1922. Island Magazine** (Aust.) 34/35 (Autumn 1988), 45 [A/B]
Moonshine from an upstairs window, Landfall XLII (1988), [A/B] 421
November, Landfall XLII (1988), 421 [as ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS, A/B]

1989 

The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, edited by Ian Wedde, Harvey McQueen and Miriama Evans, Penguin, 1989
Reading the maps an academic exercise#

Selected Poems, edited by Peter Simpson, AUP, 1989
NB: Only previously unpublished poems listed

Solitary Cell, Kingston (from CONSIDERATIONS)
Occasions
The village, retrospective view

1990 

Ambush. Poetry NZ 1 (1990), 14; Vital Writing 2 (1990-91), 134 [A/B]
Clair de Lune. Poetry NZ 1 (1990), 14 [A/B]
Closing the chocolate factory. Poetry NZ 1 (1990), 14 [A/B]
Coastal. Landfall XLIV (1990), 3 [A/B]
Conflicts comrade and reconcilings. Landfall XLIV (1990), 3 [A/B]
Devolving rainbows. Landfall XLIV (1990), 3 [A/B]

1992 

Celebrating Lititz. Poetry NZ 5 (1992), 30 [A/B]
Falling tide. NZ Listener 134 (25 July 1992), 54 [A/B]
How moaning and mourning became Doris Gibbs in 1933. Poetry NZ, 5 1992, 30 [A/B]

Auto/Biographies, AUP, 1992
A song of innocence
Carp
ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS
  January
  February
  April#
  May#
  June
  July
  October
  November#
  December#
My portrait 1945 for Mum
Moonshine from an upstairs window#
Mitimiti and Gaia
A bit of nostalgia for Mac
Dominions day
Blackberry moonlighting for Don
Closing the chocolate factory#
Giraffes#
Ambush#
Beginnings
Bird bay
Ballad of Baker McLean
Field theory above Ahipara
Coming
Debts
Poem against imperialism
Poem against imperialist
Pressing north
Dreams, where is no winter
At the end of another road
Lake Ohia
Site
Only
About being in love
Cigar-store Indian, 1927
Falling tide#
Blind date at the glow-worm caves
Tokaanu
Paradise gaining
Below Karioi
untold tales#
Shots from a government vinyard
Turn of a screw once
Turn of a screw twice
Dressing up
Of marrying (1)
Of marrying (2)
Coastal#
Parables
Devolving rainbows#
Thursday afternoons at college
Belladonna and others
Trinity, May 1873
July 1922#
How moaning and mourning...#
Surveillance...
Turning aside...
The wisdom of Marcus Aurelius
Celebrating Lititz#
Consider, Riemke...
Conflicts, comrade, and reconcilings#
Meeting at Matata
Terrorists
Survivors
Clair de lune#
Goodbye saying
A song of experience


1993 

*Annunciation waltz. Landfall NS I (1993), 45
*Be found by every daystep. Landfall NS1 (1993), 42
*Bestiary piece. Printout** 4 (February 1993), 17
*Entrepreneurs. Takahe**14 (August 1993), 50
*For Molly MacAlister. Landfall NS I (1993), 43
*Not as strangers do with hat in hand. Sport**10 (Autumn 1993), 44
*Retrospective show, Auckland painting. Landfall NS I (1993), 44 
*Two aubades. Landfall NS I (1993), 42

1994 

*Private eyes. Sport 12 (Autumn 1994), 149
*If I stepped outside, in May '93. Sport 12 (Autumn 1994), 151
*A view of farm cove Sydney, 1874. Takahe 17 (1994), 33

1996 

*At the far end of the garden, Printout 11 (1996)
*Bayleys Beach. Landfall NS IV, 1 (Autumn 1996), 110
*Brief history of western philosophy: the bicycle. Landfall NS IV, 1 (1996), 112
*Résumé, Printout 11 (1996)
*Theatrum orbis. Landfall NS IV, 1 (1996), 111

Tomarata, with an Afterword by Peter Simpson, The Holloway Press, 1996




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