Poetry
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Bob Orr [Orr, Bob]

SONG TO ONEHUNGA WHARF A stevedore in blue overalls is crossed by a seagull’s shadow. Salt-grizzled fishing boats in the basin rub shoulder to shoulder like trawlermen in the Manukau ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Sonja Yelich [Yelich, Clung]

* you hear people rhyme beach & reef jetties & amenities in the same sentence * & you see the engineers who had designs in their eyes * you meet ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-22 | Author:Rosalie Moffett

In fact, I’ve never fractured, though I’ve flown many times through air, landed hard on the ground. Heartbroken and silly, yes, but my bones’ve held. Hers, a little birdish, shifted ...
( Category: Women Authors February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Murray Edmond [Edmond, Murray]

WHOLLY DAZE I will write/a double life/lifting you/from the baking powder — Paula Green More is not less. — Robert Venturi Any Thought utters a Dice Throw. — Stéphane Mallarmé ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Ian Wedde [Wedde, Ian ]

What death grows under trees that trees grow into downward for their lives under mountains that the earth staggers & slowly straightens beneath their weight & goes on performing feats ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Chris Orsman [Orsman, Chris]

The Lakes of Mars Not airless, but there’s no insect life to set the air moving; no birds this far inland, and even the mummified seal, lying not far from ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Chris Tse [Tse, Chris]

• (Lament for Lionel) Surely he will wear this habit down. Movement in the earth keeps him crazed while private voices sing the praise of his violent success. Like marooned ...
( Category: British February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Michael Harlow [Michael Harlow]

When it was, he said, no more than a minor skirmish in the boatshed loo at the public gardens, where love roses bloom – you could say a first flirtation ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Chris Price [Chris Price]

and, just as my opponent subsequently lost His lustre, so did the Serpent, once called Lucifer, decline from almighty fiend to half-forgotten figment in an age recast by the earthly ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Murray Edmond [Edmond, Murray]

DIFFICULT FOR GAUCHOS TO KISS WHEN WEARING HATS I wanted to lay down on the reprobate’s trail and howl for forgiveness, but instead I kept to my evil ways, and ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Chris Price

MUSEUM PIECES Feathers, bones, beaks and feet National Library of New Zealand / Museum of Natural History, Oxford In the drawer’s forest-scented darkness I lie on my back. An impossible ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alfa

MISS ME The Human says: I’ll do whatever it takes to ensure that you miss me. The Mermaid says: There are other fish in the sea to save and to ...
( Category: Love Poems February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jessica Le Bas [Le Bas, Jessica]

If things don’t improve soon it could get to this * Look, it is as much as … as this … He mimics His hands vibrate on the arms of ...
( Category: Poetry February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Sarah Broom [Broom, Sarah]

small she was squashed up as small as a baby bird, damp and secret and reluctant in its egg, as small as the breathless tip of a fern frond, as ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian February 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Robert Sullivan [Robert Sullivan]

10 The Northeast Passage Home Let’s leave our crew for a minute and fast-forward to the final trip home: the grim recovery of Cook’s parts, a chunk of thigh here, ...
( Category: Asian February 11,2023 )