poems online

Links to full-text electronic poems from New Zealand and the Pacific – a sample which maps the rapid expansion into new forms of publication and presentation.

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A R D Fairburn

• Walking on my feet, To An American Tourist At Whakarewarewa (The People's Embassy)
• I'm Older than You, Please Listen (The People's Embassy)
• Well Known and Well Loved, A Farewell (Dave's home page)
• In the Younger Land, Odysseus (‘Odysseus, the old wanderer’), All I Have Desired, 
  Odysseus (‘I have come back as a stone falls to earth’), Rhyme of the Dead Self, 
  Disquisition on Death, Winter Night,  Empty House, First Things, Dominion, Full Fathom Five,
  A Farewell, Tapu, The Cave, Wild Love, Walking on My Feet, To A Friend in the Wilderness,
  The Voyage, Down On My Luck (nzepc)

Rangi Faith

• Selling it (Trout 8)
• Time Past (Trout 8)
• The Cage; A Special Expedition (Southern Ocean Review 8)
• Matters of Land; Not My Kind of Painting (Southern Ocean Review 16)
• Conversation with a Moahunter (Southern Ocean Review 21)
• Advice To A Colonial Artist, Waving Goodbye, Conversation With A Moahunter, Hurunui River Submission, New Zealand Poets Flyfishing Calendar (Blackmail Press 6)
• A Tale From The Akura, A Strange Earth (Southern Ocean Review 28)

Michael Fanene-Bentley

• My sounds I do not hear (nzepc)

• Z zayin : lightning; What it’s like; ‘But where’s this country’s soul/’ asked the visiting novelist (AUP/The Inhabited Initial)
• Jigsaw (The People's Embassy)
• Our Trip to Takaka (Trout 11)

• jogging myth; le giraffe; logic (Trout 10)

• His Knowing (Turbine 2002)
• Ophelia (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Two L tt  s fo  Lo d  uth  fo d (Best NZ Poems 2008)
• from The M at the End of the Earth (Poetic Brandscapes)

• Songs of the fat brown woman (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Between the steel bars (nzepc)

• Capital (IIML)

• 1981 (Spiral)
• up the rabbit hole (Blackmail Press 13)
• I’m writing you a letter Mr Kipling (nzepc/Poetry on the Pavement)
• Ah memory, ah history how fragile (nzepc/Fugacity 05)
• Leaving like Godwits (nzepc/Oban06)
• A dog going about his business (Snorkel # 6)
• small frames - the hens of Rarotonga (nzepc/All Together Now)
• Story lines (Otoliths 23)

• Wittgenstein’s Sun (Trout 1)
• This Temporary Arrangement (Trout 1)
• The Pearl (Trout 2)
• Guy Fawkes  (Trout 3)
• cyanotypes (Trout 8)
• Bracelet, Hair, Locomotive (Blackmail Press 3)
• Baluchistan, Begum, Your Living Ray (Blackmail Press 4)
• pachinko love (Blackmail Press 6)
• diamond cigars (Evasion 6:2)
• Complete Fiction (Evasion)
• Travelling Saints, Story of the Bagnard, The Bracelet (nzepc)
• White Scarves (Turbine 06)
• I bought hats and shoes. It was a wild night (kmko #7)
• Beaded Insects ('09 blog)
• Matariki (nzepc/Seven Stars)
• Lake George (nzepc/Home & Away, Auckland)
• The Xian Incident, 400 Pueblos, Moreton Bay Beads (nzepc/Home & Away, Sydney)
• Gorge and Rush (nzepc/tapa notebooks)
• The Long Work (nzepc/digital)

• art.pepper (Blogspot)

Joan Fleming

• Monday in the library (The Lumiere Reader)
• Theory of light (Best NZ Poems 2008)

• Korero With My Cousin (Trout 11)

• The End; The Happy Prince; Eater of Crayfish (The Listener Vol 195 No 3355)

• The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider: A Selection (Turbine 2002)
• Three Hummingbirds (Poetry NZ 27)

• Talking in bars (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• The new museology (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• Cascade; from 'Holiday in Cornwall'; Detritus
• A hank of her hair (Best NZ Poems 2004)

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Bernard Gadd

• again from caverns (Trout 6)
• Renga as Hainan (Southern Ocean Review)
• the way of our wars, Omarunui, 1866, objectors, 1918 (HEADWORX)

• Burial (Best NZ Poems 2003)

• Adam and Eve's alleles (Turbine 2002)

• Love song 46 (seeing voices 2)
• Our Summer Mother (AUP)

Ta‘i George

• My Mother’s Coat (nzepc)

John Geraets

• No Time. One Way: bring on Conjurers 1 & 2 (Tinfish 1)

Matthew Goldie

• Presupposition (Sport2/NZETC)

Annora Gollop

• This is the night train and it makes night connections ( Trout 5)
• Ponder this ( Trout 5)
• untitled ( Trout 5)
• Jazz ( Trout 5)

Josh Goodwin

• Drummer at the White Palace (Trout 10)

Chloe Gordon

• Fresh Orange Juice (Trout 9)
• Fresh Orange Juice (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Packing Up the Poet's Office for the Painters (IIML)
• The Last; Friend Whose Parents Were Hippies; Wellington (Turbine 2002)

Paula Green

• bread and butter pudding; greek salad; oven baked salmon; spaghetti all'aglio  (AUP Cookhouse)
• a configuration of love (Trout 1)
• red (Trout 7)
• from Yellow; from Red (AUP/Chrome)
• Lemon Stack (seeing voices 2)
• 10.4.02 Intersection; 5.4.02 Night Crossing (the Surrender) (Trout 10)
• Waitakere Eno; Sonnet Blue (Rattapallax 2)
• Waitakere Rain (Bext NZ Poems 2004)

• Accumulations (Blog)

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Russell Haley

• The man with the silver flute  (nzepc)

Bernadette Hall

• The Lay Sister (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Bacchante (Sport 4/NZETC)
• Panda Postcards To A Businessman In New York (Sport 5/NZETC)
• As a Matter of Faith (Sport 6/NZETC)
• The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls (Sport 9/NZETC)
• English (Room 202) & 3 other points of view (Sport10/NZETC)
• Leda at the Billabong (Best NZ Poems 2008)

Dean Hapeta [Te Kupu]

• Ngatahi - know the links (Te Kupu.Com) [Video]
• Why I Don't Cry (Te Kupu.Com) 
• Mauri - the sustenance (Te Kupu.Com) 
• Vision (Te Kupu.Com)
• Why I Don't Cry; HARDCORE; AS THE BLIND SEE; REBELLION - the usurpation; TE HONENGA; WAR - the perpetration; TE WHAKATETE (Blackmail Press 9)

Rore Hapipi

• The Raw Men (uncut version) (AU English

Paul Hardacre

• Carriage 583; Killer Jeans (HeadworX)

• In the Picture: Donatello and Brunelleschi; 'Cucumbers and Mad Apples' (Sport 5/NZETC)
• Reading Mandelstam for Nikolova (Poetry NZ 24)
• Cremation Blues (Best NZ Poems 2002)
• The Feet and the Fit of Shoes (Rattapallax 2)
• Stop ; Talking at the Boundary ; No Problem, But Not Easy (nzepc)
  

Paula Harris

• Thirty Six Poems (Street Women Press)
• a life with a view (Turbine 2002)

Siobhan Harvey

• Eggs; Black Swans (Snorkel#1)

• The Rain in Japan (Trout 1)
• Dandelion (Trout 2)
• Portrait from a floating world (Trout 11)

• untitled (Sport2/NZETC)
• untitled (Sport4/NZETC)
• 365 x 30 (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Excerpts from Small Stories of Devotion (Rattapallax 2)
• untitled (Sport7/NZETC)
• A New Word ; Sunset ; Floating (Sport10/NZETC)

• War (Blackmail Press)

• reflections on running (maaori.com)

• Ginsberg (1926-1997) (Trout 3)
• Dreamwork (for Karl) (Trout 3)
• I Am a TV Survivor, Today I Am a Pakeha with Shimano Gears (Poetic Brandscapes)

• Film Studies (Sport10/NZETC)

• Moscow; Picnic at Orakau Memorial (Turbine 2002)

• Argument by Design (Southern Ocean Review 17)
• Bespoke (Southern Ocean Review 13)
• Casting Down, Dove, Off, There You Go, Eternity, Notional, Yonder, Réveil Des Oiseaux, The Thirteenth Hour, Adam's Apple (DeepSouth, Jan 2002)
• Getting There, A Mother's Story (for Mahmoud Darwish) (HeadworX/How to Occupy Ourselves)
• The Evening Before; Notional; from -Cherry; Concert; Nostalgia for the Mud; After All (Glottis)
• Untitled (Rattalpallax)
• PALEY'S WATCH; GETTING THERE; SOCIAL STUDIES ;· KIND OF A LASSO TO THE WORLD THAT ISN'T TRUE, YET ;· A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLONIALISM ; MASS ; THE FOLLY OF HONEST MEN ; DIE TORHEIT EHRLICHER MENSCHEN ( fieralingue)
• The Harrier Suite (Best NZ Poems 2004)

• Whakatu (NZ Poetry)
• Silence . . .on another marae (nzepc)

• Winter Solstice Song (HeadworX)
• Lines for a New Year (Best NZ Poems 2008)

• The Desolate Star (nzepc)
• Pierrette: 11 poems (nzepc)
• The Secret Child: 17 poems (nzepc)
• Exquisite Bond: 19 texts (HOW2)
• Excerpts from 'The Book of Nadath' fair copy manuscript (HOW2)
• What is it makes the stranger? (nzepc)
• Arachne (nzepc)
• Robin Hyde in China, 1938 (nzepc)
• Incidence (Best NZ Poems 2003)

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Witi Ihimaera

• Dinner with the Cannibal (SPAN 36)
• Oh Numi Tutelar (nzepc)

Kevin Ireland

• Sailing the world (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Railway Jokes (Sport8/NZETC)

Elizabeth Isichei

• Polly (Turbine 2002)

J

Anna Jackson

• from 16 Pakeha Waka; from Tea-time with the Timorese; On the Road with Rose (AUP/The Long Road to Tea-time)
• Elvira’s first day at creche (Trout 5)
• Tahitian pohutukawa (Trout 7)
• from My Friendship with Mayakovsky; Sun Baby (AUP New Poets 1)
• The peacock of motherhood, Huia (AUP)
• Watch (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Kitchen drain (seeing voices 2)
• Johnny's Song (Poetry NZ 25)
• Stow Stay Stow Stay (Trout 11)
• Catullus for babies (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• from Catullus for Children; Party (AUP)

Lincoln Jacques

• The House At The End of the Century, Karma (Southern Ocean Review 22)

Adrienne Jansen

• Pot-Shot, at Three, Dunedin: Playing Scrabble with My Aunt, You (Sport 2/NZETC)

Lynn Jenner

• Womens Business (Best NZ Poems 2008)

Mike Johnson

• singing the blues on Mt Hua; Song of an ancient arrowhead (seeing voices 2)

Louis Johnson

• City Sunday, Holidays, Kapiti Coast (Writing Wellington: VUP/NZETC)

Andrew Johnston

• Revisionism (Sport 4/NZETC)
• Sacred Heart (Sport 5/NZETC)
• Great Aunt (Turbine 2002)
• Afternoon Dream (Sport 7/NZETC)
• Pastorale (Sport 7/NZETC)
• House and Garden (Sport 7/NZETC)
• Fool Heart (Sport 10/NZETC)
• Visiting the House-to-be; How to Talk (andrewjohnston.org/VUP)
• How to Fly; London Winter; Lapwing; Saudade (andrewjohnston.org/VUP)
• The Headline Writer; For Rose; Boat; The Sounds (andrewjohnston.org/VUP)
• Bonjour La France (andrewjohnston.org/Sport 30 )
• Aitche; Z'Habitants (andrewjohnston.org/Sport 31 )
• Lucy (Snorkel#1)
• Les Baillessats (Best NZ Poems 2004)

Tim Jones

• Stones; Smaills Beach (HeadworX)
• If  Looks Could Kill; Writers and Readers (Southern Ocean Review 9)
• The Weather; Pastoral (Southern Ocean Review 6)
• Landscape with Poets (Turbine 2003) 
• Tea with Maggie; New Live Dates (Southern Ocean Review 31)
• Antlia; Horologium; Octans  (Astropoetica 1) 
• The Translator (Best NZ Poems 2004)

Birgitta Jonsdottir

• Warriors of Words, The Fall and Rise of the Eagle, Countdown to War, Bone day, 
  Freedom (Blackmail Press 7)
  

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Kapka Kassabova

• Kapka Kassabova Home Page
• Calculations (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• Calculations (AUP/Seeing Voices) [MP3 audio]
• Nothing You Can Take (AUP/Seeing Voices)
• The Sphinx (Trout 5)
• Ciphers (Trout 5)
• Eaglereach (Poetry NZ, 24)
• In  the Shadow of the Bridge (seeing voices 2)
• Refugees (AUP)

M. Butterflies Katz

• Metamorphosis (web site)

• Breeder Boy (nzepc)

• The Painter (Karaka); The Sculptor (Pouriuri) (Trout 10)
• Bob Orr, Low Tide, Oto, Kara:Lily, Masami-san no Uta, Ju-ni Gatsu (Blackmail Press 7)
• The Anxious Quarts; Sugimura; The Ancestor; Koro to Mokopuna; The Virgin & The tree (Blackmail Press 9)

• Elephant Riding (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Watching Eileen at a Poet’s Wake (nzepc)
• Eloquentia (Trout 11)

• Burn, The Social Contrackt (HEADWORX)

Anne Kennedy

• Cat Tales (Best NZ Poems 2002)
• Lacrimosa (nzepc)
• I was a feminist in the eighties (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Millennium; Epithalamion; I Am (1) (AUP)
• What Fell (Best NZ Poems 2004)

• Speaking With My Grandmothers (Writing Wellington: VUP/NZETC)
• Bulls Provide Semen for Breeding Programmes (NZ Poetry)

Sara Knox

• Climbing (Sport2/NZETC)
• Hermione, 1881 (Sport2/NZETC)

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