Friday

Book Twenty-Two


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)





Contents:

  1. Grapefruit [1983]
  2. The common cormorant, or shag ... [n.d.]
  3. Cautionary Tales [1993]
  4. In a New Country [n.d.]
  5. Thoughts on a Bishop’s Phrase [n.d.]
  6. The Conference [Sept. 1993]
  7. At Dinner [n.d.]
  8. Self-Diagnosis [n.d.]
  9. The Batch [Oct 1993]
  10. The Idiot Beast [n.d.]
  11. On Finding an Old Man Dead in His Rubbish [n.d.]
  12. The Rev’d Jim [n.d.]
  13. The Voyage of the Venus (2 pp.) [May 1994]
  14. Ask them in … [n.d.]
  15. On Finding Her Handkerchief in the Sheets at the Foot of the Bed [n.d.]
  16. Afterwards [n.d.]
  17. The Pavlova (apostrophe to a pudding) [May 1994]
  18. Why did I sell my soul for you? … [n.d.]
  19. Dreaming on the Littoral (for Bruce, while living on the edge at Tairua) [Oct 1994]
  20. Home for Tea (Message) [n.d.]
  21. Hallelujah (2 pp.) [June 1994]
  22. Mendicants (2 pp.) [July 1994]
  23. The Public Scandal [Oct 1994]
  24. Hopkins [n.d.]
  25. Kerikeri, 1946 [n.d.]
  26. Rag and Famish [n.d.]
  27. Green [Oct 1995]
  28. Have a nice day ... [n.d.]
  29. Bedtime [n.d.]
  30. Dancing Maria [n.d.]
  31. Three down ... [n.d.]
  32. You’re the best! ... (Message) [n.d.]
  33. The Sociogram [Oct 1994]
  34. Christmas Shopping [16/8/94]
  35. My Beloved [n.d.]
  36. At Whangaroa (morning tea and angels) [Jan 1995]
  37. God spoke … [n.d.]
  38. On a Wall in Eden [n.d.]
  39. At the Nightclub (Darwin) [n.d.]
  40. Cutting through the Kaigoose [n.d.]
  41. The Hydra (Message) [n.d.]
  42. The Sundew [n.d.]
  43. To an Upturned Rock [n.d.]
  44. The Greenhood [n.d.]
  45. Holiday [n.d.]
  46. Clouds [Jan 1995]
  47. General Knowledge [n.d.]
  48. A Letter to Mr. Yate [n.d.]
  49. The Ink Cap [n.d.]
  50. The Flax [n.d.]
  51. The Snail [Jan 1995]
  52. To Miriel, For a Dark Day (Message) [Jan 1995]
  53. Love is a Life [n.d.]
  54. Kendal [n.d.]
  55. News Readers [n.d.]
  56. Kingfisher [Jan 1995]
  57. Incantation [n.d.]
  58. Manuka [n.d.]
  59. To a Seedling Pohutukawa on a Bare Rock (with personal application) [n.d.]
  60. Winter close to summer creeps and steals … [Feb 1995]
  61. Why is it … [n.d.]
  62. Today ... [March 1995]
  63. Ancient Worship [n.d.]
  64. Coal Kingdom (2 pp.) [March 1995]
  65. Assignation [March 1995]
  66. Of Unknown Make [n.d.]
  67. Male-Type [n.d.]
  68. A Walk into Town on a Hot Day [Feb 1995]
  69. Votive Offering [n.d.]
  70. At Peria I found my love … (Message) [n.d.]
  71. Opening Time [March 1995]
  72. Two Thoughts from the Antipodes (Katherine Mansfield; Patrick White) [n.d.]
  73. Go … [n.d.]
  74. Electric Love [March 1995]
  75. A conjuror clever there was … [March 1995]
  76. Suspicion [March 1995]
  77. Winds of Parnassus [n.d.]
  78. Your Grace [n.d.]
  79. Three in the Morning [April 1995]
  80. Takou Party [n.d.]
  81. Lingering Night [n.d.]
  82. Pipes [April 1995]
  83. Nature and Creature [n.d.]
  84. Summers gone ... [April 1995]
  85. Floating on a Whirlpool [April 1995]
  86. Image [n.d.]
  87. Easter [n.d.]
  88. Kumara [n.d.]
  89. Theophany [n.d.]
  90. Gosh that’s clever! … [n.d.]
  91. Five Sonnets on the Soul (6 pp.) [April 1995]
    1. The Soul’s a Body Shop
    2. The Soul’s an Awful Mess
    3. The Soul’s a Public Reading
    4. The Soul’s a Dairy Farmer
    5. The Soul is an Agaricus (Message)
  92. The Choko [n.d.]
  93. Inspiration [n.d.]
  94. 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]
  95. House Guest (4 pp.) [n.d.]
  96. Hey, Hughie! [n.d.]
  97. Anzac Day at Rawhiti [n.d.]
  98. How quickly does the summer fall … [June 1995]
  99. Tel-e-vision is an ugly word … [n.d.]
  100. Vocation [June 1995]
  101. Agaricus (12 pp.) [June 1995]
    1. Ring me, ring me, ring me round …
    2. In the silence …
    3. So …
    4. It is the time when the season changes. …
    5. seven days a week the boss is there …
    6. Afterwards …
    7. Thaxterogaster! …
    8. Porziuncola porcinello …
    9. Dear Margaret, … / Will we know they’re there, …
    10. Where to go …
    11. Threads spread small and long …
  102. Old Hand [n.d.]
  103. Venus in a Hot Bread Shop (Message) [n.d.]
  104. Stare Cat (Message) [n.d.]
  105. Red Cloud [n.d.]
  106. Edge [July 1995]
  107. Winter’s Eve [n.d.]





Found in Filebox 2





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.






© Leicester Kyle Literary Estate, 2012



No comments:

Post a Comment