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Kendrick Smithyman: Contents of Collected Poems [D]


1943-50  |  1951-55  |  1956-60  |  1965-69  |  1970-79  |  1980-84  | 1985-87  |  1988-89  |  1990-95

III 1956-60

1956

Southwest of summer*
Kawhia holiday (4)
Little oration for being a little dead*
Original sin a suburban prospect*
Sir Bors, to the back country
Problems and temptations of the world
Problems and temptations of responsibility
Problems and temptations of commerce
Problems and temptations of a practised art
Retrospective show, Auckland painting*
A divination (5)*
    The projector’s sales talk
    The candidate’s soliloquy
    His preamble
    His vision
    Coda
Albert Park
Larkfall, thunder*
Two sitting late at night*
Home from the foreign wars
New Year’s Day
For the Mozart Bicentenary (6)
Sabbat at Sinclairs’
Gathering the Toheroa*
Toys
A good warm cave, Plato for your neighbour
Not to say much, not much to say
In the antipodes*
Sunday morning*
Stargazing*
Latest of the day
The village, retrospective view*
For Andries*
All Hallows Eve
Marriage songs (2)*
The bridewaking
Annunciation waltz*
Puhoi
Sixteen*

1957

Who gathered samphire*
For the wedding day of Jonathan & Gillian Bennett at Oxford
A song from Ceres at a tempest: a wedding song
The declaration (2)*
    Miranda
    Ferdinand
Felton Matthew’s journal
To set the scene
Heresiarch
To keep one’s powder dry
Old folks at the home*
Autumn elms*
A sketch in autumn*
From flood being upheld*
A view of Immanuel’s land
Cave canem*
Venice Preserved*
Words for Mister Music
August at the cirque d’hiver*
Strelitzia
Muriwai 1957*
Old wives’ tales (5)
End of day*
Dog
Zoo*
Demolishing the farmhouse (3)*
Telephone fault
Outlooks*
Felled macrocarpas* 
Arse upward man thumps bitching into light

1958

Blackbacked gulls 
Gannet
Tern*
An appetite for reality
Vignettes of the Maori wars (3)*
    Mangatawhiri Stream
    Baptism of fire 1862
    The attack on Rangiaowhia
Waikato railstop*
How to dispose of Ajax*
Goldleaf, goatskin, armour*
Snapshots from the pigbreeder’s gazette (3)*
    The Pigman visionary
    The Pigman militant (2)
    The Pigman amorous
Climbing in the Himalaya*
Descending Quebec Road
Porcupine fish*
Full moon*
Speaking to the youngest*
What do I get from the estate?*
Reminiscence*
Alarm without excursion*
The morepork*
After battle*
A condition of spring
Offering to a local figure*
Wednesday*
Commentary*
Dvorak, Quintet No 3 in E Flat major*
Road
Coming home*

1959

Congress*
Blackleg*
A thing remembered*
re: Ffulk*
Parable of two talents*
Pasiphae’s daughters*
Pygmalion’s defence*
Flight of fancy*
Mr Moriarty and the ferry*
End of year*
Nature note
Obituary
Kingfisher peach
Occupied country
Stormalong
Lady likely to be for burning
Jack Banner washes his hands of the city
A little marriage song for Juliet*

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