At the Alleluya Café
(K Rd, Auckland, mid-90s)
[photograph: Cornelius Stone]
Collected Shorter Poems 1
(1983 - July 1995)
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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- Grapefruit [1983]
- The common cormorant, or shag ... [n.d.]
- Cautionary Tales [1993]
- In a New Country [n.d.]
- Thoughts on a Bishop’s Phrase [n.d.]
- The Conference [Sept. 1993]
- At Dinner [n.d.]
- Self-Diagnosis [n.d.]
- The Batch [Oct 1993]
- The Idiot Beast [n.d.]
- On Finding an Old Man Dead in His Rubbish [n.d.]
- The Rev’d Jim [n.d.]
- The Voyage of the Venus (2 pp.) [May 1994]
- Ask them in … [n.d.]
- On Finding Her Handkerchief in the Sheets at the Foot of the Bed [n.d.]
- Afterwards [n.d.]
- The Pavlova (apostrophe to a pudding) [May 1994]
- Why did I sell my soul for you? … [n.d.]
- Dreaming on the Littoral (for Bruce, while living on the edge at Tairua) [Oct 1994]
- Home for Tea (Message) [n.d.]
- Hallelujah (2 pp.) [June 1994]
- Mendicants (2 pp.) [July 1994]
- The Public Scandal [Oct 1994]
- Hopkins [n.d.]
- Kerikeri, 1946 [n.d.]
- Rag and Famish [n.d.]
- Green [Oct 1995]
- Have a nice day ... [n.d.]
- Bedtime [n.d.]
- Dancing Maria [n.d.]
- Three down ... [n.d.]
- You’re the best! ... (Message) [n.d.]
- The Sociogram [Oct 1994]
- Christmas Shopping [16/8/94]
- My Beloved [n.d.]
- At Whangaroa (morning tea and angels) [Jan 1995]
- God spoke … [n.d.]
- On a Wall in Eden [n.d.]
- At the Nightclub (Darwin) [n.d.]
- Cutting through the Kaigoose [n.d.]
- The Hydra (Message) [n.d.]
- The Sundew [n.d.]
- To an Upturned Rock [n.d.]
- The Greenhood [n.d.]
- Holiday [n.d.]
- Clouds [Jan 1995]
- General Knowledge [n.d.]
- A Letter to Mr. Yate [n.d.]
- The Ink Cap [n.d.]
- The Flax [n.d.]
- The Snail [Jan 1995]
- To Miriel, For a Dark Day (Message) [Jan 1995]
- Love is a Life [n.d.]
- Kendal [n.d.]
- News Readers [n.d.]
- Kingfisher [Jan 1995]
- Incantation [n.d.]
- Manuka [n.d.]
- To a Seedling Pohutukawa on a Bare Rock (with personal application) [n.d.]
- Winter close to summer creeps and steals … [Feb 1995]
- Why is it … [n.d.]
- Today ... [March 1995]
- Ancient Worship [n.d.]
- Coal Kingdom (2 pp.) [March 1995]
- Assignation [March 1995]
- Of Unknown Make [n.d.]
- Male-Type [n.d.]
- A Walk into Town on a Hot Day [Feb 1995]
- Votive Offering [n.d.]
- At Peria I found my love … (Message) [n.d.]
- Opening Time [March 1995]
- Two Thoughts from the Antipodes (Katherine Mansfield; Patrick White) [n.d.]
- Go … [n.d.]
- Electric Love [March 1995]
- A conjuror clever there was … [March 1995]
- Suspicion [March 1995]
- Winds of Parnassus [n.d.]
- Your Grace [n.d.]
- Three in the Morning [April 1995]
- Takou Party [n.d.]
- Lingering Night [n.d.]
- Pipes [April 1995]
- Nature and Creature [n.d.]
- Summers gone ... [April 1995]
- Floating on a Whirlpool [April 1995]
- Image [n.d.]
- Easter [n.d.]
- Kumara [n.d.]
- Theophany [n.d.]
- Gosh that’s clever! … [n.d.]
- Five Sonnets on the Soul (6 pp.) [April 1995]
- The Soul’s a Body Shop
- The Soul’s an Awful Mess
- The Soul’s a Public Reading
- The Soul’s a Dairy Farmer
- The Soul is an Agaricus (Message)
- The Choko [n.d.]
- Inspiration [n.d.]
- About Florence / b. 1908 / Expelled / from Pupuke / Valley School / at the age of / Seven. Buried at / Green Lane Cem- / etery, Kaeo, at / Easter, 1995 (Message) [May 1995]
- House Guest (4 pp.) [n.d.]
- Hey, Hughie! [n.d.]
- Anzac Day at Rawhiti [n.d.]
- How quickly does the summer fall … [June 1995]
- Tel-e-vision is an ugly word … [n.d.]
- Vocation [June 1995]
- Agaricus (12 pp.) [June 1995]
- Ring me, ring me, ring me round …
- In the silence …
- So …
- It is the time when the season changes. …
- seven days a week the boss is there …
- Afterwards …
- Thaxterogaster! …
- Porziuncola porcinello …
- Dear Margaret, … / Will we know they’re there, …
- Where to go …
- Threads spread small and long …
- Old Hand [n.d.]
- Venus in a Hot Bread Shop (Message) [n.d.]
- Stare Cat (Message) [n.d.]
- Red Cloud [n.d.]
- Edge [July 1995]
- Winter’s Eve [n.d.]
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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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© Leicester Kyle Literary Estate, 2012
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