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Selected poems / Kendrick Smithyman ; chosen and introduced by Peter Simpson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Simpson, Peter.
Smithyman, Kendrick.
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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