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Selected poems / Kendrick Smithyman ; chosen and introduced by Peter Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry--20th century.
- New Zealand poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Described as the 'sly old fox of New Zealand verse', Kendrick Smithyman is a major New Zealand poet. In Selected Poems passionate commitment to the craft of language and to a sense of place stamp the 100 poems selected by Peter Simpson. Thick with wry wit, unexpected imagery and astonishing fluency, Selected Poems demonstrates Kendrick Smithyman's skill and achievement.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1943-1950
- Lady As Swan
- The Bay 1942
- Walk Past Those Houses on a Sunday Morning
- After
- Kingfisher Song
- August Struck Out Compelling
- To Be Absent Without Leave
- Bream Bay
- Simple Ode
- If I May Take My Leave
- This Blonde Girl Air with Variation
- Time in Your Maiden Head
- The Cloud, the Man, the Dream
- Icarus
- Poem for a Winter Birth
- from CONSIDERATIONS
- Solitary cell, Kingston
- Headstone Bay
- High in late afternoon a dove
- Walk, boy, that soft ground softly
- SNAPSHOTS FROM The Pigbreeders' Gazette
- The Pigman Visionary
- The Pigman Militant
- The Pigman Amorous
- Climbing in the Himalaya
- Speaking to the Youngest
- Dvorak, Quintet No.3 in E Flat Major
- Blackleg
- A Thing Remembered
- Parable of Two Talents
- Pasiphae's Daughters
- 1966-1970
- Flying to Palmerston
- Research Project
- Colville
- English Effigies
- Selby
- Field Notes
- Near Ellon
- Reflections from Golden Gate (1)
- Reflections from Golden Gate (2)
- The Seal in the Dolphin Pool
- An Ordinary Day Beyond Kaitaia
- A Showing Forth by Day of the Nankeen Kestrel
- Tomarata
- Where Waikawau Stream Comes Out
- 1971-1980
- Intersecting Plains
- Herd
- Idyll
- The Simple Life in New Zealand 1886
- Circus at the Barber's Shop
- Biography
- Getting to Sleep
- The Visiting Professor's Reception
- Movements for Coastal Voices
- Hitching
- About Setting a Jar on a Hill
- Resort
- Backwaters
- Signs
- Reading the Maps An Academic Exercise
- After Zhivago
- Skateboarding with Lewis Carroll
- Stories about Wooden Keyboards
- The Last Moriori
- 1981-1986
- God Rest You Merry at Halloween in Hamilton Ontario
- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day in Hamilton Ontario
- ELDERS
- Peehi/Best
- Baucke
- Rinaua/Lindauer
- Pomare
- Te Rangi Hiroa/Buck
- Deconstructing
- 395
- Klynham
- Pasternak: The Making of a Poet
- Death in Venice: Diaghilev
- A Birthday Poem
- Schooling
- Screen Plays 1/2/3
- Trout Quintet
- Pieces
- Published Collections by Kendrick Smithyman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 8, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-86940-703-2
- OCLC:
- 863821864
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