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Overview: In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country’s most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. ‘I lead a life of quiet medication’, the poet claims, ‘longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.’ But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering an encounter in Belsize Park, in the thick of it or asking, ‘what next?’, Stead’s voice is intimate, amusing and always compelling. Swimming in the dark I call on memory – Rangitoto ahead, and those lights of Kohi behind making a cosy half-circle. Overhead the moon’s a waka sailing west to escape first light that will put it out. I’m reaching blind fingers for the yellow buoy and touch it only as the sun does dimly through a bank of cloud …
Genre: Fiction | Poetry
- 1. Home
To be continued, perhaps
Tohunga Crescent
Ode to Autumn
On a day late summer in a poem like wine
Pastoral: Kaiwaka, 1941
Say I do this
Dombey & Son
To ‘Amnesia, Muse of Deletions’
Mary
The corner
Hobson Bay
Waking in a Time of Trouble
Haiku: Audiology
Haiku
Just Checking
This side of silence
Birthday Tercets for Kay
Anonymity and Silence
Something to tell
After surgery
To any gardener with a terminal prognosis
Poem in October
2. Away
What Next?
The Death of Orpheus
Proses
Movie review: The Misfits
‘At the Bay’
David Mitchell in Menton
Côte d’Azur
Sonnet in a time of Lockdown
October 16, 1817, Angostura, 5 p.m.
The Dream of Carlos Amigo
Sonnet: Paula Rego and an inn
The thousand peaceful towns
Fin
Impromptu: Afghanistan
Psalms of Judas, 1
Psalms of Judas, 2
Psalms of Judas, 3
Psalms of Judas, 4
The challenge
National Anthems
3. … and Friends
Poem for Kevin
Thelma
For Jane Massey
For Fleur Adcock
MacSpaunday
To John Berryman
13-syllable tercets on behalf of Goats
Murnane Country
A Sonnet ending on a note of uncertainty
Keri Hulme – The Bone People
Smalls
Crossing the Bar
A sonnet for Peter Wells
Iris
Creative Writing Class: Syllabics
An encounter in Belsize Park Gardens
Just like that
Sam
Lines for a Granddaughter
Solidarity
Games at 14 Esmond Road, 1955
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Rudolf
E = mc2
The Money
Ian
And last
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