CONTENTS 2013

POETRY

Rosetta Allan

Photos I have worn

Rosemary Anderson

It’s Rosemary Anderson!

Emma Barnes

Sigourney Weaver and I Visit
Iwamizawa in My Dreams

Sigourney Weaver Knows Me in
Another Life Where I Am a Drummer

Miriam Barr

The Things We Carried

Tim Birks

KM to Ken Russell & Glenda Jackson

Jane Blaikie

Northern suburbs

Intensive stocking

Michael Botur

James Brown

Rachel Bush

Megan Clayton

Navina Clemerson

Eternal vigilance

Elizabeth Coleman

He kept saying luscious

Rose Collins

Brooklyn Breech

she hoped that Jack would come
up the stairs and hold her

Siobhan Collins

Natasha Dennerstein

Hitchcock Ice-Queen

Mary-Jane Duffy

Here we give thanks

Nicola Easthope

Rachael Elliott

Gill England

Amber Esau

Holly Jane Ewens

Stan Galloway

Dance, Nora, Dance

Laurice Gilbert

Emma Gilkison

Mitchell Grabois

What I Saw One Day

Vaughan Gunson

I get paid well for this job

Rob Hack

My boyhood favourite Toi

Mandy Hager

Singing Home the Whale (excerpt)

Wai Ho

Chris Holdaway

Ode to Shelly Beach—, excerpt

I thought it was a castle

Anna Jackson

Saoirse at the fridge

The photographer in the library

Emily, too early

Adrienne Jansen

The spirit wrestling gallery

Michael Keith

Emelihter Kihleng

Kirsten Le Harivel

Wes Lee

Lucy Marsden

Frankie McMillan

The Travelling Corsetière

Claire Orchard

As if I should care

Poetry Masterclass at the Embassy Theatre

Connie Palmer

Richard King Perkins II

Karen Peterson Butterworth

Academic Discussion

Maggie Rainey-Smith

By the yellow gingham chair

Helen Rickerby

Vana’s life, as directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Ray Harryhausen

Miriam Sagan

Eclipse of the Moon at Hotel St. Marie

Sandi Sartorelli

I ngā wā o mua . . .

Valediction for a loved one with Alzheimer’s

Pass the standing stone please dear

Kerrin P Sharpe

they read rough maps of sky

Lorraine Singh

Marty Smith

The back gate of Solway College

Elizabeth Smither

Picasso’s tenderness

Robert Stratford

Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to the Porirua Aquatic Centre

Alice Te Punga Somerville

Teresia Teaiwa

Draft Manifesto for a Feminist Asthmatic in Aotearoa

Jo Thorpe

That Ol’ Silvery

This Lovely Hand of Yours

Alys Titchener

Reading poetry to my boyfriend

Rachel Tobin

Sian Torrington

Raining from everywhere

The road is unmapped

The beginning of a conversation

Anny Trolove

BROTHER, THIS IS FOR YOU

A N A T O K I S P E L L

Gill Ward

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Traffic patterns

Waiting for a tsunami

Loveday Why

Call to arms (dance)

Is it dark already?

Charlotte Yates

Dreams are like Sand

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