Wednesday

Book Twenty-Seven


In Millerton (c.2000)


Collected Shorter Poems 6

(December 1999 - January 2004)

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. Three Greenhoods and a Nei-Nei [2/12/99]
  2. Aubergine [2/12/99]
  3. The Hard Man [2/12/99]
  4. Gloss (after St. Thomas Aquinas) [17/2/00]
  5. Picnic in the Mangatini (2 pp.) (Millerton) [21/3/00]
    1. We could only find glimpses …
    2. Only the more curious birds …
    3. Thanks for coming …
  6. Full House [4/4/00]
  7. At The Falls [4/4/00]
  8. Outage [4/4/00]
  9. Out On The Moor [4/4/00]
  10. The City Lies Foursquare [n.d]
  11. A Job For A Dead Owl [10/5/00]
  12. Mr. Gonzales [10/5/00]
  13. Battle of the Bands [10/5/00]
  14. A Litany For Diversity [30/5/00]
  15. A Litany For the Species [30/5/00]
  16. Looking West in Winter (5 pp.) (Christmas) [31/5/00]
    1. At this time of year …
    2. Sometimes I say to visitors …
    3. Again there were guests …
    4. Last night …
    5. Forget that the sea’s a mirror image …
  17. The Social Club Bar (4 pp.) (Christmas) [n.d]
    1. It interferes with dinner …
    2. There’s not many of us …
    3. Or getting stoned …
    4. Heineken Steinlager Haagen are the best …
    5. It’s not been painted …
    6. It’s all been done before …
  18. Lyn’s Zinnias [14/8/00]
  19. Tequila To The Setting Sun (For Tony and Marg) [14/8/00]
  20. Consummation (Christmas) [14/8/00]
  21. The Great Buller Coal Plateaux [10/10/00]
  22. Omnia Propter Femina (‘a witty tribute to Doris Day’) [10/10/00]
  23. say rain ... (Christmas) [10/10/00]
  24. My Thaïs [8/11/00]
  25. A Consequence of Rain [8/11/00]
  26. Feral Arts [8/11/00]
  27. Cars Cash and Convertibles [8/11/00]
  28. Taedium Vitae [11/11/00]
  29. I am two weathers … [11/11/00]
  30. At This Season [11/11/00]
  31. The Line is Cast (to a fallen power line) [11/11/00]
  32. The Plateau [11/11/00]
  33. Foreword [11/11/00]
  34. Signs and Wonders [11/11/00]
  35. A Seasonable Sun [30/10/01]
  36. Downpour [30/10/01]
  37. Feeding the Dog [30/10/01]
  38. The Lesser Leptopteris [30/10/01]
  39. Some New Slugs (Galapagos) [n.d.]
  40. Wild Flower [30/10/01]
  41. It began … [n.d.]
  42. Moss on the Moor [n.d.]
  43. For My Father (from the Blackburn Track) ... (Buller) [n.d.]
  44. Measure for Thirst (on two bar notices) [n.d.]
  45. They’ve given me … [n.d.]
  46. Trail-Blazer [n.d.]
  47. Thesis [n.d.]
  48. Sunday Tea [n.d.]
  49. May 7th Of This Year (Galapagos) [n.d.]
  50. O glorious One of the undermined … (Buller) [n.d.]
  51. A Respectable Age [n.d.]
  52. Small Print [n.d.]
  53. Rain [ii] (13 pp.) (Millerton) [11/1/02]
    1. Rain
    2. Some dawns whisper in …
    3. Ice makes a ring on the roof …
    4. There may be silence …
    5. At the foot of my bed …
    6. From the first tone of a voice …
    7. I twist in my bed at insect sounds …
    8. Suddenly and all at once …
    9. I don’t know why I’ve woken then …
    10. Some rain’s from the south …
    11. Fog
    12. Wind …
  54. A Bone at the Bushline [n.d.]
  55. If anyone took this tree away … [n.d.]
  56. You said … [n.d.]
  57. Before the Throne [n.d.]
  58. Summer, Sumner, 1946 [n.d.]
  59. For Advice [n.d.]
  60. For Don Whelan on his 60th birthday [n.d.]
  61. Mr Muir and Mr Emerson (3 pp.) [n.d.]
  62. Cinderella [31/5/02]
  63. Beware of the dead … [31/5/02]
  64. A Work Of Love In Remembering One Dead [31/5/02]
  65. Cicadas [31/5/02]
  66. The Impresario’s Muse [31/5/02]
  67. Metrosideros fulgens [31/5/02]
  68. Poa cita (for Carol) [ii] [31/5/02]
  69. A Metaphysic [8/7/02]
  70. Drosera binata (the fork-leaved sundew) [20/12/02]
  71. Endstop [20/12/02]
  72. Sunday Morning In December [20/12/02]
  73. Cinderella’s Tree [20/12/02]
  74. Ask of a Mortgage [20/12/02]
  75. Posterity [20/12/02]
  76. Quantulumcunque [20/12/02]
  77. The Bar of Urban Myth [20/12/02]
  78. The Last Life-Crisis [20/12/02]
  79. The Pot-Luck Launch (B.Y.O.) [27/3/03]
  80. Holy Week [27/3/03]
  81. On Birchfield Fen (for Rachel & Philippe) (2 pp.) [7/4/03]
  82. The Pit-Ponies' Picnic (2 pp.) [1/7/03]
  83. Spawning Galaxis [1/7/03]
  84. Swing-Bridge [1/7/03]
  85. Ways of the World [1/7/03]
  86. On the Fifth Anniversary of Miriel’s Death [1/7/03]
  87. Victim [2/7/03]
  88. In The Eventuality [2/7/03]
  89. Night Shelter [28/8/03]
  90. Mt. Hutt [3/9/03]
  91. Three Rings at the Circus (The Marx Bros) [3/9/03]
  92. Love’s Regime [3/9/03]
  93. Letters from Home (2 pp.) (Living) [12/9/03]
  94. (Proust Says) [12/9/03]
  95. I Like It When The Sun Doesn’t Shine (Jacket2 NZ Poetry Feature) [12/9/03]
  96. Celmisia Monroi (for David Monro) [23/10/03]
  97. Happy Valley: A Lament for a landscape about to be mined (3 pp.) (Jacket2 NZ Poetry Feature) [31/10/03]
  98. Calochilus palusodos on Millerton Moor [31/12/03]
  99. The Best Of It [31/12/03]
  100. Kissing the Beast Upon Both Ears [16/1/04]
  101. All Weather Changing Loves [16/1/04]
  102. Blow Dark and Burn Again [16/1/04]
  103. To Paradise Which is a Port [16/1/04]
  104. Cocktails and Signs of ‘Ads’ [16/1/04]
  105. In High Fog [20/1/04]
  106. All Sleeps Hollow [20/1/04]



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Found in Filebox 2



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Editorial Note

The copytext for the facsimiles comes from Filebox II (1998-2006) of Leicester's Collected Poems, presently in my possession. The majority 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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