Poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies.

New Zealand author.

Part I : Doubtless -- Part II : Arapaoa -- Tree poem -- Normal enough -- Missing you -- He was one of the last -- Snap/shot -- As we speak -- Whose turn is it? -- Poem on Meg's death -- I throw you flowers -- Sunset song -- No bells -- Patron saint song -- What takes your fancy -- Cloud song -- Jimmy Vernon -- Sonata -- Better than this? -- Talking of the weather -- Lugging the sack -- Part III : Lines for a New Year -- Selected poems : A new plateau song -- Why a man -- Fire, as always -- Old flames -- Hey, Minstrel -- Working the genesis week -- Making it back in -- Harpooner's song -- Floating poem -- Fucking poem -- There isn't a river -- That's it -- Naming the Gods -- Coming to it -- Four plateau songs -- October in the bay -- Patea 1983 -- After seperation -- Beyond the brink -- Seven years -- Hilary -- Rainbows, and a promise of snow -- Not in this weather -- Sara -- Four manly verses -- It's rain today in Sydney -- Wave song -- Catching the tide -- Brother Lynch -- Harold Saunders, boatbuilder, Tory Channel -- Running scared -- You house the moon -- After words -- Words for Tina -- Maintrunk country road song -- My father today -- Birth of a son -- Four bow-wow poems -- Returned serviceman -- Ancient taupata, Bottle Creek -- A purple balloon -- What a pity -- That feeling-of-being-in-the-country -- Back beach, Caster Bay -- Every time it rains like this -- Rangitikei river song -- Lisa from Manjimup -- Of Dan and the peacock -- Photograph of Robin in war-paint -- Dead bird -- Bottle to battle to death -- Death in the street -- War history -- New words -- Wedding party and after -- I wonder what the old man is thinking? -- Six summer sestets -- School policy on stickmen -- Time to ride -- Making tracks -- We could just disappear -- Letter home -- Flutemaker -- My white ship -- Homecoming -- Invocation in Equinox -- Singing for you now -- Plea before storm -- At Caster Bay -- A white gentian -- A song about her -- July 21 1969 -- Somewhere near here; many miles -- Porirus Friday night -- A summer poem -- A Bottle Creek blues -- A hot-water bottle baby blues -- My father scything -- Return of a cabbage tree -- Before the demolitions -- Smash -- Her words on leaving -- A school report -- Saturday palm Sunday -- A valley called Moonshine -- A Mangawka road song -- Beware the man -- Walking the morning city -- Post office report -- A house north near mangroves -- August steam -- A wind of wolves -- Collision -- Roadsong Paekakariki -- Four cobweb poems -- Bracken country -- After sickness -- Lyn -- Modigliani girl -- Just like that! -- Notes from a journey -- Early opener -- Stabat mater -- Himatangi -- A long time -- The windows of our morning -- Black cattle at dawn, Waiura -- Your ultimate accountant -- Christina -- Liz -- Up Battle Hill -- River woman songs -- Friend to many -- Two winter settings -- Ana gathering cones on Battle Hill -- Girl with black eye in grocer's shop -- Words on a first waking -- Those eyes; such mist -- Four songs -- No exit -- Wagoning, up Moonshine -- Drunkard's garden -- Baptism by river water -- For Kristin and Tom on a stormy morning -- The men of Moonshine -- Sailor's morning -- Salt man -- Return to Drunken Bay -- Return to Rangitoto -- Song for Tom -- West Coast woman -- Arthur Allan Thomas -- Death of the poet preacherman -- April fool -- Requiem -- A dedication -- Foreign hotel -- Spider song -- The man on the sandtrack said -- Tora wind song -- What dandelions think -- Yellow -- Bone flute -- Passing through -- September 1st -- Clearing the ashes out -- Why I snoke 'pocket edition' -- We are nearly neighbours -- Waikato river song -- Glimpse -- Oterei rivermouth.

New poems -- Selected poems.

Poetry.

Poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies.

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