Category: 2012

A Hillside of Houses Leaves Steeped in weather the old wooden houses remember their bird-selves and unfold barely-jointed wings. Separating pleat from pleat weatherboard beaks gape door frames spring apart into the steeple shape of breastbones there is a woody straining then the clatter of press and lift and dozens…

1 | 2 I will now consider the creative act I have been the blank page. I have been the scrunched-up draft. I have been one more trip to the dictionary. I have been the perfect first line. I have been the winter storm. I have been the power cut.…

1 | 2 Don’t mention the war   The plot to pop the pope was perpetrated by the plutes. Right they were, they wrote, as they checked out all the routes. You bring the bomb, I’ll bring the broom. At the rate we’re going, we’re wrong about the room, but…

Finding your way in the dark I am a poet I blow smoke out the window and expect something to come back to me I have my dreams that keep me awake at night the whole world spins around in my head thinking I could drink my wine and fuck…

How fine it is to be surround by wood   What nets I need unknown inside this sea of numb As those before bore tackles, tools and gear. Against the coldest skies my silhouette, that crow That hoarse incompetence of body Scratch out its meanings at a mumbled distance As…

High Tide at Kuaotunu Respite for the river which slows to a halt and takes in the view   the thick clumps of toetoe the low hills caught in the morning sun   the whole beautiful world doubled.     Contents | About this Author

Ko Whitireia te maunga Ko Porirua te moana Ko Ngāti Toa Rangatira te iwi Ko Whitireia te Kura Matatini Nau mai, haere mai e te hunga pānui, e! Tēnā tātou e tau mai, e pānui mai nei. Welcome to 4th Floor 2012 – a showcase of writing from Whitireia New…

POETRY   Bronwyn Bryant High Tide at Kuaotunu Kate Camp How fine it is to be surround by wood Aaron Carter Finding your way in the dark Mary Cresswell Don’t mention the war I will now consider the creative act Lynn Davidson A Hillside of Houses Leaves Natasha Dennerstein Carnifex…

Coral Atkinson Pamela Berard Bronwyn Bryant Fay Cameron Kate Camp Aaron Carter Mary Cresswell Lynn Davidson Natasha Dennerstein Mary-Jane Duffy Nicola Easthope Penny M Geddis Rob Hack Mandy Hager Helen Heath Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Sue Jamieson Lynn Jenner Valerie Kirk Kirsten Le Harivel Rewa Morgan Samiha Radcliffe Maggie Rainey-Smith Tina…