Wednesday

Book Twenty-Three


At the Alleluya Café
(K Rd, Auckland, mid-90s)
[photograph: Cornelius Stone]


Collected Shorter Poems 2
(July 1995 - September 1996)

Abbreviations:

8 GOs = 8 Great O’s (2003)
Anogramma = Anogramma (2005)
Anzac 1 = Five Anzac Liturgies (2000)
Anzac 2 = Five Anzac Liturgies. 2nd ed. (2003)
Breaker = Breaker: A Progress of the Sea (2005)
Buller = The Great Buller Coal Plateaux (2001)
Christmas = A Christmas Book (2000)
CSP 1 = Collected Shorter Poems: 1 (1983-1995)
CSP 2 = Collected Shorter Poems: 2 (1995-1996)
CSP 3 = Collected Shorter Poems: 3 (1996-1997)
CSP 4 = Collected Shorter Poems: 4 (1997-1998)
CSP 5 = Collected Shorter Poems: 5 (1998-1999)
CSP 6 = Collected Shorter Poems: 6 (1999-2004)
CSP 7 = Collected Shorter Poems: 7 (2004-2006)
Dun Huang = Dun Huang Aesthetic Dance (2002)
Flowers = I Got Me Flowers (c.1975)
Galapagos = The Galapagos Tracts (c.1999-2006)
God = God Poems (c.2005)
Heteropholis = Heteropholis (1998)
Kerosene = Things to Do with Kerosene (2002)
King = King of Bliss (2002)
Koroneho 1 = Koroneho. In A Brief Description of the Whole World (1997-1998)
Koroneho 2 = Koroneho. Taylor Ts. (c.1996)
Koroneho 3 = Koroneho. 1st book publication (2011)
Living = Living at a Bad Address (2004)
Machinery = A Machinery for Pain (1999)
Message = Message from a Lightboard (1996)
Miller Creek = Miller Creek (2004)
Millerton = Five Millerton Sequences (2012)
Options = Options (1996-97)
Panic = Panic Poems (2003)
Red Dog = Red Dog / Brown (2005)
State = State Houses (1997)
Safe 1 = A Safe House for a Man (2000)
Safe 2 = A Safe House for a Man. 2nd ed. (2000)
Uncollected = Uncollected Poems
Voyge = A Voyge to New Zealand (1997)
Wedding = A Wedding in Tintown (2002)



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Contents:

  1. My Beautiful Electric Sky [n.d.]
  2. Pre-Deceased [n.d.]
  3. A Vision on the River Bank [n.d.]
  4. Beggar at the Door [n.d.]
  5. Looking West [n.d.]
  6. I Love You (for Miriel) [n.d.]
  7. A Trumpet from Telemann [Aug 1995]
  8. Babel [n.d.]
  9. Quietly [Sept 1995]
  10. Will anyone … [n.d.]
  11. Sunrise from the Bedroom Window (Message) [n.d.]
  12. Sunset [n.d.]
  13. After the Storm [n.d.]
  14. In the R.S.A. [14/10/95]
  15. Dismemberment [2/11/95]
  16. Possession [n.d.]
  17. In Her Arms – Warmly (6 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Down the Line
    2. City
    3. Nest
    4. Café
    5. Goal
  18. In the Mangroves [n.d.]
  19. War [n.d.]
  20. Maundy Thursday at the Mangonui Pub (2 pp.) [n.d]
  21. monday … [1/8/95]
  22. Ode to a Word Processor (Message) [n.d.]
  23. For the Kerikeri Performers Group [14/10/95]
  24. Newmarket on a Wet Day [n.d.]
  25. God [n.d.]
  26. Co-Dependence [n.d.]
  27. Clive Heke (2 pp.) [n.d.] / Karamea Jones [n.d.]
  28. He was six foot eight … [n.d.]
  29. Driving North to John [n.d.]
  30. Talking with the Tui at the Auckland Zoo [n.d.]
  31. Macrocarpa (Message) [n.d.]
  32. Treat (Message) [30/10/95]
  33. Blue Orchids at Burnetts Face [n.d.]
  34. Unworldly Thoughts in an Auckland Brothel (5 pp.) [n.d.]
  35. A Visit to the Doctor (10 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Invocation
    2. First Therapy
    3. First Protestation
    4. Second Therapy
    5. Second Protestation
    6. Third Therapy
    7. Third Protestation
    8. Divination
  36. To Do with God at Church on Sunday [n.d.]
  37. Fledgling (Message) [n.d.]
  38. Rough Rubbish [n.d.]
  39. Cub Reporter (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  40. Walking to Taylor’s (7 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Clematis
    2. The Heads
    3. Geckos
    4. Water
    5. Cave Houses
    6. My Father
  41. State House Sonnets (13 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. It stands shining … (Message)
    2. No paths, no fences. … (Message)
    3. Being first in …
    4. Close walls comfort, …
    5. The road is my delight. …
    6. They come, new ones, next door. …
    7. Blue, with white in it. …
    8. To learn and live, …
    9. Every time it’s Christmas … (Message)
    10. There are darker dawns when …
    11. Our gardens and lawns. … (Message)
    12. No places left unused. …
  42. one Day brown (State Houses) [n.d.]
  43. Lightfinger (16 pp.) [n.d.]
  44. Caravan Club (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  45. Where Do I Want to Be [14/1/96]
  46. Roger and Geoff [13/1/96]
  47. Silence [2/1/96]
  48. Time Please (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  49. Polly at the Cello (2 pp.) (Message) [28/3/96]
  50. Episode (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  51. I'm just right ... [28/5/96]
  52. Desperate Remedy (Message) [n.d.]
  53. Jacob at the Ladder [n.d.]
  54. A Walk Around My Church (3 pp.) [n.d.]
  55. Anzac Days (8 pp.) (Message) [n.d.]
    1. the procession. Culverden
    2. the silver band. Akaroa
    3. effects. Stoke
    4. the officer. the Square
    5. the hall. Hobsonville
    6. the speech. the Bridge of Remembrance
    7. breakfast. Rawhiti
    8. the trumpet. Russell
  56. On the back of the ticket … [n.d.]
  57. Living on the Cheap (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  58. Trouble at Returns (3 pp.) (Message) [n.d.]
  59. In a Korean Mini-mart [n.d.]
  60. Touched [n.d.]
  61. Being Kiwi [n.d.]
  62. I do magic … [n.d.]
  63. A Group of Greenhoods [n.d.]
  64. From My Nature Diary [n.d.]
  65. Full House [n.d.]
  66. Four Corners (7 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Here are all the questions …
    2. The Berlin
    3. Sola Solew
    4. K. C. Loo
    5. Barfoot and Thompson
    6. A change of the light …
  67. The Message [n.d.]
  68. Oreographic [n.d.]
  69. Clean Café [n.d.]
  70. Catch [n.d.]
  71. Through My Eyes Only [n.d.]
  72. Dancing on Carnelian [n.d.]
  73. Botanist [n.d.]
  74. My Father’s House [n.d.]
  75. Shaman [n.d.]
  76. Her Own Preserve [n.d.]
  77. I only know … [n.d.]
  78. Fomison [n.d.]
  79. Your nearness scorches … [n.d.]
  80. Pious Practice [n.d.]
  81. Sweeney on a Bicycle [n.d.]
  82. In Church, Sunday [n.d.]
  83. Closed Shop [n.d.]
  84. Tonight, the Moon (Message) [n.d.]
  85. Convergence Zone (Message) [n.d.]
  86. Cumulus (Message) [n.d.]
  87. Viva Visa (Message) [n.d.]
  88. Ombrage (Message) [n.d.]
  89. Aurora [n.d.]
  90. Private Eye (Message [n.d.]
  91. The Celestial Clerestory (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  92. Apologia pro Vita Sua [n.d.]
  93. Can anyone else … [n.d.]
  94. Calypso (2.5.45) [n.d.]
  95. The Message [n.d.]
  96. Rumour [n.d.]
  97. Now I Want to Go to Sleep [n.d.]
  98. A Visit to My Psychiatrist [23/9/96]
  99. Rodingite [n.d.]
  100. A Visit from a Blind Man [n.d.]
  101. An Intellectual Evening with Friends [n.d.]
  102. An Entry in My Diary [n.d.]
  103. Festival Time (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  104. Base Material [n.d.]
  105. Changing Times [n.d.]
  106. A Cliff on Mt. Owen [n.d.]
  107. On a Line by Lyn Hejinian [n.d.]



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Found in Filebox 2



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Editorial Note

The copytext for the facsimiles comes from Filebox I (1983-1998) of Leicester's Collected Poems, presently in my possession. Some of the transcriptions have been made from Microsoft Word files preserved on Leicester's computer.

- Jack Ross,
Mairangi Bay, March 2012.




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