Monday

Book Twenty-Five


At the Alleluya Café
(K Rd, Auckland, mid-90s)

[photograph: Cornelius Stone]


Collected Shorter Poems 4

(May 1997 - April 1998)

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. Matrix [n.d.]
  2. At the Wedding [n.d.]
  3. Mavis [n.d.]
  4. Day From Under A Lillypilly [n.d.]
  5. By a Banksia Border [n.d.]
  6. Look on … [n.d.]
  7. Do you mind … [n.d.]
  8. Last Night At Poetry Live [1/5/97]
  9. Comfort Stop [5/5/97]
  10. And Did Those Feet [5/5/97]
  11. Passing On [5/5/97]
  12. Louis to Lorine [5/5/97]
  13. Half Way House [5/5/97]
  14. Blackberries [5/5/97]
  15. Eremite [5/5/97]
  16. 'The nothing, not pure nothing, left over …’ [5/5/97]
  17. Ornebius aperta (new-settled from Australia) [21/5/97]
  18. My Life with Shakespeare [21/5/97]
  19. Soft Furnishing [21/5/97]
  20. Letter to Lorine (Niedecker) (Sport 19: Lightworks (Spring 1997): 46-48.) [21/5/97]
  21. Twice Shy (Sport 19: Lightworks (Spring 1997): 46-48.) [21/5/97]
  22. How lush the new grass is, how green … [6/6/97]
  23. Your eye rolls like the world along … [6/6/97]
  24. Liane [6/6/97]
  25. Villas in Milton Street [6/6/97]
  26. Red Light (Sport 19: Lightworks (Spring 1997): 46-48.) [6/6/97]
  27. To the Sun, In a Dawn Fog [6/6/97]
  28. Running Late [6/6/97]
  29. A Letter from Elise (4 pp.) [24/6/97]
  30. a dissonance … [24/6/97]
  31. First Fine Day [24/6/97]
  32. Aquilegia, my Friend [24/6/97]
  33. Calm Before [24/6/97]
  34. new grief … [24/6/97]
  35. Mary’s Yard [24/6/97]
  36. Dinner at the Academy [n.d.]
  37. Night Flight at Harvest [n.d.]
  38. Over the Hill [i] [n.d]
  39. Dark Party [n.d.]
  40. Wedding Photos [n.d.]
  41. A Question At The End Of The Line [11/9/97]
  42. Good Bye [11/9/97]
  43. My Feet [11/9/97]
  44. The Lady Meets The New Land [11/9/97]
  45. Quiet Please [11/9/97]
  46. The Kai Apple at Pakaraka [30/9/97]
  47. Death [30/9/97]
  48. Getting On [30/9/97]
  49. the 2 & ½ last lines of a poem by kenneth rexroth [30/9/97]
  50. Precinct [30/9/97]
  51. Epithalamion (for Anna and Richard, 14.6.97) [12/6/97]
  52. Three Views from an Eminence (3 pp.) [10/10/97]
    1. If I stand …
    2. turn back to …
    3. round slowly …
  53. Death of an Epitaph [10/10/97]
  54. A lot of work … [10/10/97]
  55. By Touch [10/10/97]
  56. Rock Hound (the Old Dog) [10/10/97]
  57. Here! Now! Live! [31/10/97]
  58. A Note to End-Time [31/10/97]
  59. To Live In A Cave [31/10/97]
  60. Promise [31/10/97]
  61. News From Abroad [31/10/97]
  62. rustling / says Jack … (Spin 31 (1998): 31 / The Imaginary Museum (June 26, 2006)) [31/10/97]
  63. The River Through the Mangrove Runs [17/11/97]
  64. On the Bridge [17/11/97]
  65. Jordan [17/11/97]
  66. Written from Captivity [Threnos] (Safe) (8 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. You on the couch …
    2. the bed …
    3. where they cut …
    4. Lit against the window light of broad white sky …
    5. How protestant my mind …
    6. some tree might …
    7. You scrabble down …
    8. Death is a cold wet thing …
  67. A Sign [25/11/97]
  68. An Artichoke In The White Garden At Gledswood [25/11/97]
  69. Reunion [27/11/97]
  70. On hot spring nights … [27/11/97]
  71. On The Way [27/11/97]
  72. Small Change [27/11/97]
  73. If I Were a Tree [27/11/97]
  74. After Midnight [2/12/97]
  75. The Tent [31/12/97]
  76. An Idle Breeze [31/12/97]
  77. This … [31/12/97]
  78. Hay Fever [31/12/97]
  79. Consequence [31/12/97]
  80. Last Lost [31/12/97]
  81. from A Voyge to New Zealand (4 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Song of the Wooding Houses
    2. the stars / so bright i my life ...
    3. suckcide.
    4. Left / leave Leeds ...
  82. Consolation [n.d.]
  83. Stood Up [n.d.]
  84. In a Long Corridor at Camden [n.d.]
  85. My Life [n.d.]
  86. Wet Dawn in a Camping Ground [n.d.]
  87. Her Grand-son’s Son (3 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. When you found out …
    2. Remember though …
    3. Meet me Mama when I do …
  88. from Heteropholis (3 pp.) [n.d.]
    1. Apostrophe
    2. O fern-green thing ...
    3. You were / before the fall ...
  89. If I don’t get my words out … [12/2/98]
  90. At A Time Of Sickness [12/2/98]
  91. Notes On A Green Sky (4 pp.) [12/2/98]
    1. The sky’s a parrot …
    2. A radiant …
    3. Phenomenon …
    4. Or make it …
  92. A Snap of the Dragon (Wallace Stevens) [17/3/98]
  93. Saturday [17/3/98]
  94. In The Mirror Maze [17/3/98]
  95. Birthday [17/3/98]
  96. The Other Half [17/3/98]
  97. The Veil [17/3/98]
  98. Star-Born [17/3/98]
  99. Pass-Word [17/3/98]
  100. Bivouac [17/3/98]
  101. Independence Day [31/3/98]
  102. Exposure [16/4/98]
  103. The Chinese Opera Happy Evening Dinner [16/4/98]
  104. Thelymitra pulchella [16/4/98]
  105. Death In A Tower Block [16/4/98]
  106. At Night [16/4/98]
  107. Liturgy (for Miriel) [16/4/98]



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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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© Leicester Kyle Literary Estate, 2012



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