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In the Ngakawau Gorge
[photograph: Jack Ross (2000)]

This site is intended as a clearing-house for information about the life and works of the late Reverend Leicester Kyle: environmentalist, poet, scientist and priest.

When Leicester died in 2006, he appointed David Howard and me as his literary executors. As a result, we inherited the two large fileboxes which contained (in approximate chronological order) all of the poems he wished to preserve. David was also able to make a copy of the latest state of his computer hard-drive at the time of his death, which has proved invaluable in compiling this index to his collected poems.

What I've done here, in an attempt to fulfill the trust Leicester placed in us, is to set up two companion sites, this one - Leicester Kyle - devoted to bibliographies and indexes, and the other - Leicester Kyle Texts - devoted to transcripts and facsimiles of his various books and poems. The first site aspires to provide complete listings of all primary and secondary material by and about Leicester; the second to be more selective: providing complete texts of each of the major books and a selection of the shorter poems.

It's our hope that these twin sites will grow over time. In particular, there are a number of works which we no longer have copies of - especially Leicester's various short stories and longer works of fiction. We'd be grateful to receive information about these or any other material we've overlooked. Copies of (or links to) other articles, photographs, reviews or tributes to Leicester would also be very welcome.

So be sure to check the Updates page on this blogsite, where new events or initiatives related to Leicester will be recorded as they come to hand ...

- Jack Ross, Mairangi Bay, July 2011-January 2013

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Contents

Poetry:


1. Koroneho: Joyful News out of the New Found World (1996-2001)


2. Options (1996-1997)


3. State Houses (1997)


4. A Voyge to New Zealand: The Log of Joseph Sowry, Translated and Made Better (1997)


5. Heteropholis (1998)


6. A Machinery for Pain (1999)


7. A Safe House for a Man (2000)


8. Five Anzac Liturgies (2000)


9. A Christmas Book (2000)


10. The Great Buller Coal Plateaux: A Sequence of Poems (2001)


11. King of Bliss (2002)


12. A Wedding in Tintown (2002)


13. Dun Huang Aesthetic Dance (2002)


14. Things to Do with Kerosene (2002)


15. 8 Great O’s (2003)


16. Panic Poems (2003)


17. Living at a Bad Address (2004)


18. Miller Creek (2004)


19. Anogramma (2005)


20. Breaker: A Progress of the Sea (2005)


21. Pamphlets & Ephemera (1996-2005)


22. Collected Shorter Poems: 1 (1983-1995)


23. Collected Shorter Poems: 2 (1995-1996)


24. Collected Shorter Poems: 3 (1996-1997)


25. Collected Shorter Poems: 4 (1997-1998)


26. Collected Shorter Poems: 5 (1998-1999)


27. Collected Shorter Poems: 6 (1999-2004)


28. Collected Shorter Poems: 7 (2004-2006)


29. The Galapagos Tracts (unpublished: c.1999-2006)


30. God Poems (unpublished: c.2005)


31. The Millerton Sequences (2014)


32. Message from a Lightboard (unpublished: 1996)


33. Uncollected Poems


34. Prose Fiction


35. Miscellaneous Prose

Secondary Literature:

• Articles, Poems, Reviews, Tributes


• Bibliography


• Chronology


• Index of Titles


• Critical Introduction


• Textual Introduction


• The Leicester Kyle Papers: A Catalogue


• Updates

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Acknowledgements & Thanks
(in alphabetical order):

• To Stu Bagby, for permission to reproduce his poetry sequence 'Letters to Leicester' (extracts from which were previously published in AUP New Poets 2 (2002);
• To Dr Calum Gilmour of Polygraphia Press, for permission to reproduce the covers and publication details of his editions of A Safe House for a Man (2000) and Five Anzac Liturgies (2003);
• To Dr Scott Hamilton, for permission to copy the various reviews and articles about LK from his blog Reading the Maps;
• To David Howard, my co-literary executor, for his constant encouragement and for kicking off this project in the first place;
• To Dr Bronwyn Lloyd, for help with the design and editing of LK's posthumous book of poems, Five Millerton Sequences; as well as permission to reproduce the cover and publication details of her Paper Table Novellas edition of Letters to a Psychiatrist (2017)
• To Ian St George, for help with Koroneho and the Colenso side of LK's researches;
• To Richard Taylor, for the loan of much valuable material from his unrivalled collection of LK manuscripts and letters;
• & to all the other colleagues, critics, editors, fellow-poets & friends who've helped keep Leicester's legacy & work alive over the years.

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The Buller Plateau
[photograph: Jack Ross (2000)]

Index of Titles

Koroneho (2011)

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1. 8 Great O’s

[A]

1. After They Left


2. Anogramma

[B]

1. Bay, The


2. Blue Orchid


3. Braided River


4. Breaker


5. Bridge To The Sea


6. By Hand

[C]

1. Christmas Book, A


2. Clearance


3. Close-up

[D]

1. DoC


2. Dun Huang Aesthetic Dance

[E]

1. End of the Day, The

[F]

1. Five Anzac Liturgies


2. Five Millerton Sequences


3. From the Dam, the Day After

[G]

1. Galapagos Tracts, The


2. Gary


3. Give to the Flower


4. God Poems


5. Go-green


6. Grace on the Plateau


7. Granity


8. Grant


9. Great Buller Coal Plateaux, The

[H]

1. Hairdresser and the Hat, The


2. Henry and Nan


3. Heteropholis

[I]

1. I Got Me Flowers


2. In a Secular Time

[J]

1. Jane


2. Jeffrey

[K]

1. Katherine


2. King of Bliss


3. Koroneho

[L]

1. Larry


2. Last Day, The


3. Letters to a Psychiatrist


4. Life, The


5. Living at a Bad Address

[M]

1. Machinery for Pain, A


2. Marg


3. Miller Creek


4. Moltz


5. My Amiable Mate

[N]

1. Neville


2. Ngakawau, The

[O]

1. Olwyn


2. Options


3. Our New Snail

[P]

1. Panic Poems


2. Paul


3. People, The


4. Photograph


5. Porphyry Reef


6. Port, The


7. Potter’s Coil

[Q]

1. ...

[R]

1. Raewyn


2. Rising Damp

[S]

1. Safe House for a Man, A


2. School, The


3. Seals, The


4. Snodgrass


5. State Houses


6. Sunday Late at Grafton

[T]

1. Tai Poutini


2. Things to Do with Kerosene


3. Town

[U]

1. Uncomfort Rock


2. Utu

[V]

1. Voyge to New Zealand, A

[W]

1. Weak Before You


2. Wedding in Tintown, A

[X]

1. ...

[Y]

1. You have to be

[Z]

1. ...

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© Leicester Kyle Literary Estate, 2012

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Book Thirty-Five

Spin 29 (1997)

Miscellaneous Prose
(Articles, Essays, Reviews)

Contents:

Literary & Autobiographical

General:


1. Curriculum Vitae (2000)
2. Sign-off: Aesthetics [2 pp.] (2001)
3. A Public for Poetry [4 pp.] (c.2004)
4. Peninsula Days: A Memoir of Joanna Paul [5 pp.] (2005)
5. A Letter from Buller [2 pp.] (2006)
6. When cousin Jill rang me ... (2006)

Editorials:


7. Spin 29 (Summer 1997)
8. Spin 32 (November 1998)
9. Spin 35 (November 1999)
10. Spin 38 (November 2000)

Reviews:


11. Red: poems by Richard Taylor (1996)
12. Sleeper, by John Dickson (1998)
13. Spin: Short Reviews (1998)
14. Spin: Some Short Reviews (1998)
15. A Brief Description of the Whole World (1999)




Millerton Reserve Open Day (6 August 2005)

Botanical & Ecological


General:


16. Respect the Plants ... (2003)
17. Celmisia Morganii (n.d.)
18. Orchids of The Buller Coal Plateau (n.d.)
19. Comings and Goings [2 pp.] (2005)
20. Orchids in a Ghost Town [5 pp.] (2005)
21. The Botany of the North Buller Moors [9 pp.] (2006)

Notes on Millerton:


22. Millerton Park (2003)
23. Postscript (2004)
24. The Millerton Reserve [2 pp.] (2004)
25. MAPPS AGM: President's report [2 pp.] (2004)
26. Millerton (2004)
27. Millerton Heritage Park [2 pp.] (2004)
28. The Information Centre (2004)
29. Fauna of the Park (2004)
30. Flora (2004)
31. Historical Sites (2004)
32. The Old Stockton Track: Species List (2004)
33. Millerton Town Plan (2005)
34. Millerton Park Signing (2005)
35. Millerton Tracks (2005)
36. The Old Pack Track (2005)
37. The Waterfall Track (2005)

Chairperson of MAPPS (2005)


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Editorial Note

The copytexts for the facsimiles come from the original periodical publications. The copytext for most of the transcriptions (including all the unpublished pieces) comes 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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Book Thirty-Four

I Got Me Flowers (c.1975)

Prose Fiction

Contents:

1. I Got Me Flowers: Letters to a Psychiatrist (c.1975)

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I Got Me Flowers:
Letters to a Psychiatrist
(c. 1975)

Letters to a Psychiatrist


L. H. Kyle



For Ursula

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I got me flowers to straw Thy way,
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But Thou was up by break of day,
And broughtst Thy sweets along with Thee.

George Herbert

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Leicester Kyle. Letters to a Psychiatrist. 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0-473-41327-9. Paper Table Novellas, 1. Auckland: Paper Table, 2017. iv + 87 pp.:

LETTERS TO A PSYCHIATRIST
Leicester Kyle

Paper Table Novellas

Published by:
Paper Table
6 Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
Auckland 0630
NEW ZEALAND

Email: Publisher's contact

http://papertablepress.blogspot.co.nz/

Copyright © Estate of Leicester Kyle 2017

ISBN 978-0-473-41327-9

This novella was originally issued sometime in the mid-1970s, as an undated, self-published pamphlet, under the title ‘I Got Me Flowers: Letters to a Psychiatrist.’

A complete transcript of this edition may be accessed online at: http://leicesterkyle1.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/prose-fiction.html.

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What might happen if you decided to leave civilization behind and live rough on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island? Leicester Kyle’s intimate knowledge of the ecology of the region provides a solid underpinning to this compelling tale of a mid-life crisis that turns into a visionary quest.

The Rev. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006) trained as a botanist before entering the Anglican Church in his twenties. He took early retirement in 1995 to devote himself to full-time writing. In pursuit of this, he moved to Millerton on the West Coast in the late 1990s. He is perhaps best known for his experiments in eco-poetics, but his prose work shows many of the same themes and concerns.

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Commentary & References:

Launch speech by Stu Bagby (3/12/17):

Congratulations to all concerned with the production of the three novellas. The result is striking.

Re-arranging some of Leicester Kyle's titles we get:

Living at a bad address,
Panic Poems,
Things to do with kerosene

... and now, today, we launch Letters to a Psychiatrist.

The book's blurb asks: “What might happen if you decided to leave civilization behind and live rough on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island? Leicester Kyle's intimate knowledge of the ecology of the region provides a solid underpinning to this compelling tale of a mid-life crisis that turns into a visionary quest.”

Or, perhaps we could say: It's a tale wherein the seventeenth century divine Norris of Bemerton, partly disguised as an unarmed Barry Crump/Robinson Crusoe, lets an omelette stand between him and sacrilege. (See Page 59).

I was reluctant to take on the task of launching the novella because I felt I hadn't known Leicester all that well. It's true we had shared meals at each others homes and met frequently enough over poetry. I don't recall our ever having talked about botany or religion. After his move to the South Island we corresponded. I wrote a small series of poems called “Letters to Leicester” one of which finishes by asking him: “perhaps you also saw the secrets of the great illusionists explained?” I was referring to a television programme, but over the years I've come to think I was onto something, that is, there was something of the shaman about him. Having said that, perhaps it is true of many priests.

Reading Letters to a Psychiatrist sometimes reminded me of Graham Greene's whiskey priest, though I picture Leicester being more at ease with the sherry and fruit cake he once offered at a book launch.

I found very interesting the fact that Leicester wrote the novella when in his thirties, many years before he took early retirement. It seems natural to suspect that he spent many years disillusioned with parish work. In his letters to me he often used surprisingly formal language. Perhaps this extract from the novella illustrates that:

The bishop granted me leave of absence, though reluctantly, and only after my assurance that the time would be spent in a positively edifying manner. He suspected my motives, as all married men do of the celibate, and always with good reason too. After careful thought I decided to spend the time on the North Buller Coast, and on one morning of the late spring of last year, took the Karamea bus, forsaking it at Mohikinui.

I cannot imagine anybody other than Leicester forsaking a bus.

Readers can be reassured that the writing employed in Letters to a Psychiatrist is not stilted or hard going. It is a beguiling read, written with skill and sureness. If today's publication could be described as a canoe with two outriggers, I have great pleasure in claiming that this third of the vessel has been launched.

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Editorial Note

both the (selected) facsimile pages and the complete transcription come from a copy of Leicester's original photocopied text lent to me by Richard Taylor. Bibliographical details and transcriptions of blurb and prelims are also given for the first commercial publication (Auckland: Paper Table, 2017).

- Jack Ross,
Mairangi Bay, March 2012 & November 2017.

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© Leicester Kyle Literary Estate, 2012

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Bibliography

William Colenso: Māori New Testament (1837)


Leicester H. Kyle:

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)
Letters = Letters to a Psychiatrist (2017)
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 = The Millerton Sequences (2014)
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)

Books:

1. Koroneho: Joyful News out of the New Found World (1996-2001). In A Brief Description of the Whole World 6 (July 1997): 10-19 / 7 (September 1997): 35-40 / 8 (December 1997): 62-67 / 9 (April 1998): 49-54.
   • Koroneho. Taylor Ts. (c.1996).
   • Koroneho. 1st book publication. ISBN 978-0-9876604-0-4. Auckland: The Leicester Kyle Literary Estate / Wellington: The Colenso Society, November 2011.


2. Options. Drawings by Jeffrey Harris. ISBN 0-473-04111-1. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, November 1996 / July 1997.


3. State Houses. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, June 1997.


4. A Voyge to New Zealand: the Log of Joseph Sowry, Translated and Made Better. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, 1997.


5. Heteropholis. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, 1998.


6. A Machinery for Pain. ISBN 0-473-05734-4. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, January 1999.


7. A Safe House for a Man. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, 2000.
   • A Safe House for a Man. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-9582121-5-5. Auckland: Polygraphia Press, July 2000.


8. Five Anzac Liturgies. Millerton, Buller, 2000.
   • Five Anzac Liturgies. 2nd ed. Drawings by Philip Trusttum. ISBN 1-877332-08-9. Auckland: Polygraphia Press, 2003.


9. A Christmas Book. Millerton, Buller, December 2000.


10. The Great Buller Coal Plateaux: A Sequence of Poems. ISBN 0-473-07746-9. P.O. Box 367, Westport: MAPPS [The Millerton and Plateaux Protection Society], July 2001.


11. King of Bliss. Millerton, Buller, May 2002.


12. A Wedding in Tintown. Millerton, Buller, July 2002.


13. Things to Do with Kerosene. ISBN 0-473-08963-7. Westport: Heteropholis Press, October 2002.


14. Dun Huang Aesthetic Dance. Millerton, Buller, November 2002.


15. 8 Great O’s. Millerton, Buller, 2003.


16. Panic Poems. ISBN 0-476-00084-X. Westport: Heteropholis Press, December 2003.


17. Living at a Bad Address. Millerton, December 2004.


18. Miller Creek. Sketches by Joel Bolton. Westport: Heteropholis Press, 2004.


19. Anogramma. ISBN 0-476-01604-5. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, August 2005.


20. Breaker: A Progress of the Sea. Illustrations by John Crawford. ISBN 0-473-10237-4. Westport: Heteropholis Press, September 2005.


21. Red Dog / Brown. Cover Illustrations by Jim Conolly & Jocelyn Maughan. Millerton, Buller, Christmas 2005.


22. The Galapagos Tracts (Unpublished: c.1999-2006).


23. God Poems (Unpublished: c. 2005).


24. Message from a Lightboard (Unpublished: 1996).


25. The Orchids of New Zealand. 1956-1957. Compiled by Ian St George. ISSN 0114-5568. Historical Series, No. 19. Wellington: New Zealand Native Orchid Group, 2012.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand: 1: Epiphytic Species." New Zealand Gardener (August 1, 1956): 851, 853 & 855.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand: 2: Terrestrial Species (Part One)." New Zealand Gardener (September 1, 1956): 12-14.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand [3]: Rain Forest Terrestrial Species." New Zealand Gardener (October 1, 1956): 115, 117 & 119.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand [4]: Species from Drier Bush and Scrub." New Zealand Gardener (November 1, 1956): 182-83 & 185.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand [5]: The Greenhoods, the Largest Genus." New Zealand Gardener (December 1, 1956): 259, 261 & 263.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand [6]: Species from Tussock Lands." New Zealand Gardener (January 1, 1957): 316-18.
    • "The Orchids of New Zealand [7]: Gems from the Alpine Meadows." New Zealand Gardener (February 1, 1957): 387,389-90.


26. The Millerton Sequences. Edited with an Introduction by Jack Ross. Poem by David Howard. ISBN 978-0-473-18880-1. Pokeno, Auckland: Atuanui Press, February 2014.

Poems in Periodicals:

1. "Walking to Taylor's." Poetry NZ 12 (1996): 38-40.


2. "A visit to my Psychiatrist" & "Ancient Worship." Poetry NZ 14 (1997): 52-53.


3. "Letter to Lorine," "Red Light" & "Twice Shy." Sport 19: Lightworks (Spring 1997): 46-48.


4. "The Lady Meets the New Land." Poetry NZ 17 (1998): 59.


5. "Comparative Atmospheric Pressure" & "On Forest Culture." brief 10 & 11 (1998): 43-46.


6. "Marlowe overwritten." brief 13 (1999): 36-39.


7. "O Fortuna." Poetry NZ 19 (1999): 47.


8. "On The Principle Of New Zealand Weather." brief 14 (1999): 57-62.


9. "Errata." brief 15 (2000): 86.


10. "Mr. Buller To the Rev. Mr. Taylor, Sir:" brief 16 (2000): 84.


11. "from A Voyge to New Zealand." brief 18 (2000): 12-21


12. "On The Great Buller Coal Plateau." brief 19 (2001): 38-40.


13. "Mr Muir and Mr Emerson." brief 24 (2002): 75-77.


14. "from Dancing in the Cave." brief 25 (2002): 58, 60, 62.


15. "Sunday Morning in December" & "Ask of a Mortgage." Poetry NZ 26 (2003): 54-55.


16. "On Birchfield Fen." brief 27 (2003): 55-56.


17. "Spawning Galaxis." brief 29 (2004): 57.


18. "Chrysalis." Poetry NZ 28 (2004): 63.


19. "People Like Us" & "'As the eyes are moist ...'." Poetry NZ 29 (2004): 54-55.


20. "Death of a Landscape." brief 31 (2004): 83-92.


21. "A Person if Not the Sun" [645], "Sun's Gold Greeting" [654] & "Consider: The Battle" [657]. Southern Ocean Review 33 (12 October, 2004).


22. "Rules of engagement." Poetry NZ 32 (2006): 49.


23. "Porphyry Reef" & "Weak before you." Poetry NZ 33 (2006): 52-53.


24. "Three Poems." brief 34 (2007): 27-29.


25. "The Life" & "Bridge to the Sea." brief 44-45 (2012): 19 & 165.


26. "Diary of a Country Cop." brief 46 (2012): 78-83.

Shorter Poems:

1. Collected Shorter Poems
   • 1 (1983-July 1995)
   • 2 (July 1995-September 1996)
   • 3 (September 1996-March 1997)
   • 4 (May 1997-April 1998)
   • 5 (June 1998-December 1999)
   • 6 (December 1999-January 2004)
   • 7 (January 2004-February 2006)


2. Uncollected Poems

Prose Fiction:

1. The Abbot and the Rock [32 pp.] (c.1970s)


2. I Got Me Flowers: Letters to a Psychiatrist [54 pp.] (c. 1975)
   • Letters to a Psychiatrist. 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0-473-41327-9. Paper Table Novellas, 1. Auckland: Paper Table, 2017. iv + 87 pp.


3. Deosa Bay: A Pastoral [47 pp.] (c.1970s)


4. The Visitation; An Account of the Last Diocesan Visitation of John Mowbray, Bishop of Calcutta; Largely Compiled from His Journal and His Letters [68 pp.] (c.1970s)

Miscellaneous Prose:

1. Christmas letter (1996)


2. Red, by Richard Taylor (1997)


3. Sleeper, by John Dickson (1998)


4. Spin: Short Reviews (1998)


5. Spin: Some Short Reviews (1998)


6. Christmas letter (1998)


7. A Brief Description of the Whole World (1999)


8. Christmas letter (1999)


9. Curriculum Vitae (2000)


10. "Sign-off: Aesthetics." brief 20 - aesthetics (2001): 66-67.


11. "Peninsula Days: A Memoir of Joanna Paul." brief 32 (2005): 61-64.


12. Respect the Plants ... (2003)


13. Millerton Park (2003)


14. Postscript (2004)


15. The Millerton Reserve (2004)


16. MAPPS AGM: President's report (2004)


17. Millerton (2004)


18. Millerton Heritage Park (2004)


19. The Information Centre (2004)


20. Fauna of the Park (2004)


21. Flora (2004)


22. Historical Sites (2004)


23. A Public for Poetry (c.2004)


24. The Old Stockton Track: Species List (2004)


25. Comings and Goings (2005)


26. Millerton Town Plan (2005)


27. Millerton Park Signing (2005)


28. Orchids in a Ghost Town (2005)


29. Millerton Tracks (2005)


30. The Old Pack Track (2005)


31. The Waterfall Track (2005)


32. The Botany of the North Buller Moors (2006)


33. "A Letter from Buller." brief 33 (2006): 44-45.


34. When cousin Jill rang me ... (2006)


35. Celmisia Morganii (n.d.)


36. Orchids of The Buller Coal Plateau (n.d.)

Edited:

1. Spin 29 (Summer 1997), ed. Leicester Kyle (Auckland).


2. Spin 32 (November 1998), ed. Leicester Kyle (Auckland).


3. Spin 35 (November 1999), ed. Leicester Kyle (Auckland).


4. Spin 38 (November 2000), ed. Leicester Kyle (Auckland).

Secondary Literature -
Articles, Poems, Reviews, Tributes:

1. Ross, Jack. "In the Ngakawau Gorge." Spin 32 (1998): 37. [Reprinted in The Imaginary Museum (26/6/06)].


2. Ross, Jack. "Leicester H. Kyle: Prophet without Honour." Pander 6/7 (1999): 21 & 23. [Reprinted in "For Leicester Kyle (1)", The Imaginary Museum (26/6/06)].


3. Ross, Jack. "Review: A Machinery for Pain, by Leicester Kyle, Heteropholis Press, 1999." Spin 33 (1999) 63.


4. Ross, Jack. "A Clearer View of the Hinterland: Leicester at Millerton." Spin 36 (2000): 51. [reprinted in The Imaginary Museum (26/6/06)].


5. Ross, Jack. "Review: A Safe House for a Man, by Leicester Kyle, January 2000." Spin 36 (2000) 62.


6. Locke, Terry. "Review: A Safe House For A Man by Leicester Kyle. Auckland: Polygraphia Ltd. (2000). RRP: $29.50." Hyperpoetics: Best Words in Best Order (c.2000).


7. Ross, Jack. "Review: Leicester Kyle, Five Anzac Liturgies. c/o Postal Agency, Ngakawau, Buller, 2000." Spin 39 (2001): 66.


8. Bagby, Stu. "Letters to Leicester, 1-4." No. 1 included in Stu Bagby, "First Dance." AUP New Poets 2 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002): 26.


9. Howard, David. "Overburden." Spin 42 (2002): 30-32.


10. Ross, Jack. "Review: Leicester Kyle, The Great Buller Coal Plateaux: A Sequence of Poems. Published for MAPPS [The Millerton and Plateaux Protection Society] P.O. Box 367, Westport, 2001." Spin 42 (2002): 61.


11. Ross, Jack. "Der Berggeist." In Chantal’s Book (Wellington: HeadworX, 2002): 95-96. [Reprinted in The Imaginary Museum (26/6/06)].


12. Ross, Jack. "Review: Leicester Kyle, Five Anzac Liturgies. Drawings by Philip Trusttum. Auckland: Polygraphia Ltd., 2003. ISBN 1-877332-08-9. 53 pp. RRP $22.50 [+$2 p&p]." brief 27 (2003): 98.


13. Ross, Jack. "For Leicester Kyle (2): A Preliminary Bibliography." The Imaginary Museum (26/6/06).


14. Ross, Jack. "for Leicester Hugo Kyle, b.1937." The Imaginary Museum (27/6/06). [Reprinted in brief 34 - war (February 2007): 6-11].


15. Ross, Jack. "Leicester Kyle 30.10.37-4.7.2006." The Imaginary Museum (4/7/06).


16. Ross, Jack. "We Were Talking." [Reprinting Leicester Kyle, "We Were Talking." The Press (Christchurch: 5/7/06)]. The Imaginary Museum (5/7/06).


17. Hamilton, Scott. "More than Pain: Leicester Kyle 1937-2006." Reading the Maps (5/7/06) [reprinted in brief 34 - war (February 2007): 12-18].


18. Hamilton, Scott. "Pete Lusk remembers Leicester." Reading the Maps (9/7/06) [reprinted in brief 34 - war (February 2007): 25-26.].


19. "Tavitacj". "Leicester Hugo Kyle. 1937 to 2006." Life Goes By (19/7/06).


20. Taylor, Richard. "Leicester Kyle (Friend, poet, and scientist)." Eyelight (26/7/06). [Reprinted in brief 34 - war (February 2007): 19-24].


21. Chad, Tony. "On Leicester Kyle." The Imaginary Museum (17/9/06).


22. Hamilton, Scott. "Leaves from Leicester's forest." Reading the Maps (26/9/06).


23. Hamilton, Scott. "brief goes to war." Reading the Maps (19/2/07).


24. Hamilton, Scott. "Remembering Leicester." Reading the Maps (5/7/07).


25. Norcliffe, James. Note to "Villon in Millerton." Villon in Millerton (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007): 1-5 & 69.


26. Hamilton, Scott. "Leicester style." Reading the Maps (5/7/08).


27. Taylor, Richard. "Brief Submission." Eyelight (17/4/10). [Reprinted in brief 40 (2010): 80-86.]


28. Hamilton, Scott. "Remembering Leicester Kyle - and thinking about Roger Lambert." Reading the Maps (5/7/10).


29. Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa. "At Millerton (once)." Paparoa's Blog (11/1/11).

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Contents

Leicester in Millerton
[photograph: Jack Ross (2000)]

Poetry:

1. Koroneho: Joyful News out of the New Found World (1996-2001). A Brief Description of the Whole World, 6 (July 1997): 10-19 / 7 (September 1997): 35-40 / 8 (December 1997): 62-67 / 9 (April 1998): 49-54. [A4: iv + 96 pp].
   • Ist book publication. ISBN 978-0-9876604-0-4. Auckland: The Leicester Kyle Literary Estate / Wellington: The Colenso Society, November 2011. [A5: ii + 110 pp].


2. Options. Drawings by Jeffrey Harris. ISBN 0-473-04111-1. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, November 1996 / July 1997. [A4: 63 pp].


3. State Houses. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, June 1997. [A4: 43 pp].


4. A Voyge to New Zealand: the Log of Joseph Sowry, Translated and Made Better. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, 1997. [A4: 117 pp].


5. Heteropholis. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, 1998. [A4: 52 pp].


6. A Machinery for Pain. ISBN 0-473-05734-4. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, January 1999. [A4: 37 pp].


7. A Safe House for a Man. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, 2000. [A4: 86 pp].
   • 2nd ed. ISBN 0-9582121-5-5. Auckland: Polygraphia Press, July 2000. [B4: 90 pp].


8. Five Anzac Liturgies. Millerton, Buller, 2000. [A4: 45 pp].
   • 2nd ed. Drawings by Philip Trusttum. ISBN 1-877332-08-9. Auckland: Polygraphia Press, 2003. [B4: 55 pp].


9. A Christmas Book. Millerton, Buller, December 2000. [A5: 26 pp].


10. The Great Buller Coal Plateaux: A Sequence of Poems. ISBN 0-473-07746-9. P.O. Box 367, Westport: MAPPS [The Millerton and Plateaux Protection Society], July 2001. [A5: 31 pp].


11. King of Bliss. Millerton, Buller, May 2002. [A4: 46 pp].


12. A Wedding in Tintown. Millerton, Buller, July 2002. [A4: 36 pp].


13. Things to Do with Kerosene. ISBN 0-473-08963-7. Westport: Heteropholis Press, October 2002. [A5: 34 pp].


14. Dun Huang Aesthetic Dance. Millerton, Buller, November 2002. [A4: 10 pp].


15. 8 Great O’s. Millerton, Buller, 2003. [A4: 46 pp].


16. Panic Poems. ISBN 0-476-00084-X. Westport: Heteropholis Press, December 2003. [A5: 39 pp].


17. Living at a Bad Address. Millerton, December 2004. [A5: 38 pp].


18. Miller Creek. Sketches by Joel Bolton. Westport: Heteropholis Press, 2004. [A5: 22 pp].


19. Anogramma. ISBN 0-476-01604-5. Millerton: Heteropholis Press, August 2005. [A4: 64 pp].


20. Breaker: A Progress of the Sea. Illustrations by John Crawford. ISBN 0-473-10237-4. Westport: Heteropholis Press, September 2005. [A5: 78 pp].


21. Pamphlets, Cards, Ephemera:
    1. Christmas letter (1996)
    2. Christmas letter (1998)
    3. Christmas letter (c.1999)
    4. Red Dog / Brown. Cover Illustrations by John Conolly & Jocelyn Maughan. Millerton, Buller, Christmas 2005. [A5: 11 pp].


22. Collected Shorter Poems: 1 (1983-July 1995). [A4: 107 poems & sequences / 130 pp].


23. Collected Shorter Poems: 2 (July 1995-September 1996). [A4: 107 poems & sequences / 184 pp].


24. Collected Shorter Poems: 3 (September 1996-March 1997). [A4: 107 poems & sequences / 127 pp].


25. Collected Shorter Poems: 4 (May 1997-April 1998). [A4: 107 poems & sequences / 129 [570] pp].


26. Collected Shorter Poems: 5 (June 1998-December 1999). [A4: 106 poems & sequences / 119 pp].


27. Collected Shorter Poems: 6 (December 1999-January 2004). [A4: 106 poems & sequences / 133 pp].


28. Collected Shorter Poems: 7 (January 2004-February 2006). [A4: 106 [746] poems & sequences / 135 [957] pp].


29. The Galapagos Tracts (unpublished: c.1999-2006). [A4: v + 74 pp].


30. God Poems (unpublished: c.2005). [A4: ii + 52 pp].


31. The Millerton Sequences. Edited with an Introduction by Jack Ross. Poem by David Howard. ISBN 978-0-473-18880-1. Pokeno, Auckland: Atuanui Press, February 2014. [A5: 140 pp].


32. Message from a Lightboard (unpublished: 1996). [A4: i + 57 pp].


33. Uncollected Poems. [A4: 36 poems / 38 pp].


34. Prose Fiction
    1. I Got Me Flowers: Letters to a Psychiatrist (c.1975). [A5: 56 pp].
       • Letters to a Psychiatrist. 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0-473-41327-9. Paper Table Novellas, 1. Auckland: Paper Table, December 2017. [A6: iv + 87 pp].


35. Miscellaneous Prose. [A4: 37 pieces / 62 pp].

Secondary Literature:

• Articles, Poems, Reviews, Tributes


• Bibliography


• Chronology


• Gallery


• Index of Titles


• Critical Introduction


• Textual Introduction


• The Leicester Kyle Papers: A Catalogue


• Updates

The Buller Plateau
[photograph: Jack Ross (2000)]