Kendrick Smithyman: Contents of Collected Poems [D]
This list is based on the latest arrangment of the poems in Kendrick
Smithyman’s papers. The poems are held in manila folders or spring binders
(for named collections), are dated and arranged in chronological order
(according to the groupings followed below), and incorporate the poet’s latest
revisions.
* = previously published in books or journals
Compiled by Peter Simpson. Corrected 2/3/97
1943-50 | 1951-55
| 1956-60 | 1965-69
| 1970-79 | 1980-84
| 1985-87 | 1988-89
| 1990-95
I 1943-50
1943
Lady as swan*
Walk past those houses on a Sunday morning*
A scene and a birth
After*
Song with an attitude*
The bay, 1942*
Tom Bedlam’s salute
Armistice
Mephisto’s serenade*
Atlantis may be six feet under
Southerly Evangelist
1944
Between two seas
How to deal with winter
To be absent without leave*
Air
for two voices*
Kingfisher song*
August struck out compelling*
Nine days
Slow flame*
Moonrise*
The sisters*
Mackaness, waking
Seven days leave *
Appointment in
Samara *
National Park
Repatriation
Sealers and whalers
Founding the province: a
centenary pageant
Sonnets for Migrants (3)*
Liverpool Street
1945
Serviceman’s complaint
Cartography an inexact science
Treypelev*
From a war to a war
Breaking in hill country*
Die Bauernhochzeit*
Bay
Small Port
Off again to Ithaca*
Invocation
Return to exile*
Bream Bay*
For the lover of quartets and the jazzman
Visiting the first floor (2)
War diary
Come Sunday come Monday
Streetcorner preachers*
Footnote to a common
folly
Any day now
Skyward well wishing my words *
Double Sonnet*
Masts at Te Atatu
1946
Solstice
Our beautiful inheritance *
Apologia*
Simple ode*
Te Kopuru
Stanza: about metaphor
To Mary Stanley *
Gnomic poem
Always the stranger*
Conturbat me
Care to see some family snapshots?
Song in a fashion holy for a
young lady of moderate means
Lovers
Invitation
A sonnet in a return
If I may take my leave
This blonde girl: air with variation(2)*
Resumed between
a sorrow and a shadow*
A winter darling*
To guide infirm misgiving
Movement
For
her found at my side*
Knowing they slip
In July
The weeping face (4)*
Through
smouldering brazen morning
A work of El Greco *
Villanelle *
The suffering witness (3)*
First meeting*
Later
Cold war*
The green world (3)*
A sad country
Inheritance*
Prothalamial
The knife edge
You grave sad silence*
1947
Time in your maiden head*
Speak me a truth more
Mneme*
Lyric on a sour note
What more dear than I tell*
Now look in your own eyes
Lived by the strangers*
Train
Anzac ceremony*
The hanging judge*
Mirror prospect*
The cloud, the man, the dream*
The blind mountain*
Hill
country image*
Island discourse*
Icarus *
Concerning Alice
Familiar girl, dear
native habit*
South
Partisan journey (7)*
From their fond short*
Not altogether a fiction
Doll
Tearsheet’s farewell
Hermione recovered
Dark lady
CONSIDERATIONS(1945-50)
Plover*
Overseas posting*
What the night said
Garrison (1)
Hurricane Weather
Cascade*
Near the customs house*
Song after
supper*
Port
Walk, boy, that soft ground softly*
Solitary cell, Kingston*
Garrison 2
High in late afternoon a dove*
Headstone Bay*
Projections, transparencies
Active service
Kingston*
Poem: of the ruins*
Loose knot of song, columbine fugue*
Theme
The exploration to relate
Island recollection
Arrival at noon*
Retrospect
Film show in the paddock
A version of Kingston
Invasion is not expected just yet
Prospect from Kingston
1948
Résumé
Proposition
Mornings and places
A sort of citizens designed for oils
Four stanzas *
No wider than a room
The journey
Easter Sunday (5)*
Paul Nash: an elegy*
Song of indifferent planets
Night in August*
Refugee album
On a theme of Thomas Mann
A play of flutes
How should I say*
Poem for a winter birth*
Mourn, fool, and we kiss
Allegory sonnet*
Grave by Grafton
What angel wrestling*
How is she loved that I should call her mine?
At the
grammar school memorial
Portrait of the observer
Someone explodes his sight*
Portrait of artist as incendiarist
Wounded clown (after Rouault)
Grafton Gully*
Being estranged
Der doppelgänger(5)*
1949
Fair weather song
Waiwera*
Notturno*
Perseus*
Extinction, a lost word
Of separation
Should this blood sing
In kingly
state (how bearing)
Good beasts to compose *
High wind at Wheturangi*
Similarities
Wry-billed plover*
Then*
Should death sing each*
Ballad of the laggard mouse
Emblems, a casual shire(6)*
1950
Wounds of love*
Dirge for two clavichords and bowler hat*
Nor bear a miracle word
Fifth month*
Swimming, early evening
Hungering summer
Waking to sirens in winter
Outsider
Tune for the recorder
Below Whenuapai*
Isle of pines
Faded view of the founder
We
Wholly day stood mute
Spring meeting
Ritualists*
Landscape with figures
Peter Quince*
Bone over my shoulder
A conjuring
Continue to 1951
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