Wednesday

Book Twenty-Four


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


Collected Shorter Poems 3
(September 1996 - March 1997)

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. People disappear … [n.d.]
  2. Time of Trial [n.d.]
  3. Alarm in the Suburb [n.d.]
  4. His Place [n.d.]
  5. Side-Road [n.d.]
  6. Re-Possession [n.d.]
  7. Deep Throat (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  8. Falling Down [n.d.]
  9. Sometimes I feel … [n.d.]
  10. Mycorrhiza [n.d.]
  11. Morning Magic [n.d.]
  12. Sunday Afternoon at Western Springs [n.d.]
  13. “We chattered over the results of the future all afternoon” – John Clare [n.d.]
  14. Your Spirit Comes to the Aid of My Weakness [n.d.]
  15. A Visit from the North [n.d.]
  16. If Laughter is a Christian Vice (Baudelaire) [n.d.]
  17. On the Slab [n.d.]
  18. Soirée [n.d.]
  19. Man to Man (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  20. then … [n.d.]
  21. Sometime in the eighties … [n.d.]
  22. A Seat on the Steps (3 pp.) [n.d.]
  23. Bush Mushroom (Agaricus sp.) [n.d.]
  24. Parade [n.d.]
  25. Chatfield [n.d.]
  26. Truffle-Type [n.d.]
  27. A black Bolete ... [16/9/96]
  28. Greymouth [n.d.]
  29. A Cauliflower Fungus on the Undertaker’s Lawn [n.d.]
  30. T. S. E. At Lunch [n.d.]
  31. Hakeka (Auricularia polytricha) [n.d.]
  32. The Oyster Fungus (Pleurotus rattenburyi) [n.d.]
  33. FAST>>> … [n.d.]
  34. The Christchurch Botanical Gardens Horticultural Apprentices’ Mutual Improvement Society (3 pp.) [n.d.]
  35. Flyting Man [n.d.]
  36. Spring Snow [n.d.]
  37. Breakfast in Our Block (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  38. Day ‘Destiny’. Unclaim (Message) [n.d.]
  39. Mother [i] (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  40. Under the Pale Paulonia [n.d.]
  41. This Book of Ours [3/10/96]
  42. On the Roll [3/10/96]
  43. Goethe in Sicily (2 pp.) [3/10/96]
  44. Request of the Blest [27/9/96]
  45. Mushroom Maketu [27/9/96]
  46. Right Justify (2 pp.) [20/9/96]
  47. loved by one … [20/9/96]
  48. somewhere in the reins and roots … [20/9/96]
  49. heard … [23/9/96]
  50. tried … [27/9/96]
  51. Hiding in the Wiwi (2 pp.) [27/9/96]
  52. For the St. Barnabas Flower Show, 1996 (3 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Listen, …
    2. A. A Living Kauri (at the door): …
  53. Turn of the Tide [n.d.]
  54. Saint Teresa [n.d.]
  55. Update [n.d.]
  56. Hound [n.d.]
  57. Practical Considerations [n.d.]
  58. Gecko [n.d.]
  59. Pete is forty today … [n.d.]
  60. Iron Sand [n.d.]
  61. Night Shopping [i] (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  62. Night Shopping [ii] [n.d.]
  63. Old Houses (4 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. It’s an old house, …
    2. People have died, …
    3. Change shape in the mind. …
    4. boundaries …
  64. Sunset in a Foothill Town [13/11/96]
  65. Morals [13/11/96]
  66. A New Day [13/11/96]
  67. Last Post (2 pp.) [13/11/96]
  68. Move to Go (2 pp.) [n.d.]
  69. Something Chronic [n.d.]
  70. Ritornello [n.d.]
  71. Of Humility [n.d.]
  72. Puheke [n.d.]
  73. Early Bird [29/11/96]
  74. Moving Up [n.d.]
  75. Mid City [n.d.]
  76. Ancient Worship [n.d.]
  77. From Out the Big Bad World [n.d.]
  78. Ibn al Farid (Cairo, 1280) [n.d.]
  79. Welcome Change [n.d.]
  80. O Adonai (a stormy Advent at the Cathedral) (Options) [n.d.]
  81. Sometimes … (Options) [n.d.]
  82. Picking Paua (Message) [n.d.]
  83. A Cage for a Dying Man [24/12/96]
  84. Hydrangeas [24/12/96]
  85. Getting It Right for Christmas [24/12/96]
  86. On the Tick [24/12/96]
  87. Book Launch [24/12/96]
  88. The Great Thanksgiving (2 pp.) [24/12/96]
  89. Pohutukawa [n.d.]
  90. Go … [n.d.]
  91. and when it came … [n.d.]
  92. Tiger Country [n.d.]
  93. First Light [n.d.]
  94. To My Father [n.d.]
  95. I like ears … [n.d.]
  96. Music Practice [21/2/97]
  97. I got my soul a sun ... [21/2/97]
  98. Divine Design [21/2/97]
  99. It’s so quiet ... [21/2/97]
  100. Reflection [21/2/97]
  101. Postcard from Punakaiki [6/3/97]
  102. Old Friend [6/3/97]
  103. The Moon Swings Round like a Vacuum Cleaner [n.d.]
  104. Two Pockets [n.d.]
  105. Downhill [n.d.]
  106. A Flower in Which the Mystery Lives (Koroneho) [n.d.]
  107. Two At The Tomb [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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