121 New Zealand poems / chosen by Bill Manhire.

Previous ed. published as: 100 New Zealand poems. 1993.

Includes notes about the poets.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Charm / Anon. -- Living here / Cilla McQueen -- A young woman foresaken by her lover / Anon. -- Ghost ships / Chris Orsman -- David Lowston / Anon. -- The married antipodes / Anon. -- The night watch song of the 'Charlotte Jane' / James Edward Fitzgerald -- There's nae place like Otago yet / John Barr of Craigielee -- Charlotte O'Neil's song / Fiona Farrell -- Pioneer woman with ferrets / Ruth Dallas -- The charge at Parihaka / Jessie Mackay -- Parihaka / W.H. Oliver -- The dwellings of our dead / Arthur H. Adams -- Our cities face the sea / David McKee Wright -- The tug of war / Dinah Hawken -- Not understood / Thomas Bracken -- Beginnings: Guthrie Smith in New Zealand 1885 / Peter Bland -- A spring afternoon in New Zealand / Anne Glenny Wilson -- The lay of the weather-bound / William Charles Hodgson -- Song of the Gumfield / William Satchell -- The old place / Blanche Baughan -- The windy hills o' Wellington / Henry Lawson -- The first tribute / Kevin Ireland -- How we think / Lloyd Jones -- The city from the hills / Arnold Wall -- ANZAC snap / John Gallas -- To L.H.B. / Katherine Mansfield -- Response / Ursula Bethell -- Old memories of Earth / R.A.K. Mason -- The bushfeller / Eileen Duggan -- Trees / Una Currie -- The magpies / Denis Glover -- Walking on my feet / A.R.D. Fairburn -- Johnny come dancing / Bub Bridger -- The islands / Charles Brasch -- She was my love who could deliver / J.R. Hervey -- from The Beaches / Robin Hyde -- Time / Donald McDonald -- A note on the Russian War / Janet Frame -- Last run / Bruce Stronach -- Subject matter / William Hart Smith -- The wife speaks / Mary Stanley -- Before the fall / Rachel McAlpine -- Taumarunui / Peter Cape -- Black Billy tea / Joe Charles -- Monologue / Hone Tuwhare -- Secular litany / M.K. Joseph -- Telephone wires / Mary -- The bomb is made / Keith Sinclair -- Song in the Hutt Valley / Louis Johnson -- Colville 1964 / Kendrick Smithyman -- For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock -- Don't knock the Rawleigh's man / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Why don't you talk to me? / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- A small ode on mixed flatting / James K. Baxter -- The ballad of Rosy Crochet / David Mitchell -- Revisiting V8 nostalgia / Peter Olds -- Maintrunk country roadsong / Sam Hunt -- Pathway to the sea / Ian Wedde -- What next? / Florence E. Allen -- Ancestors / Rore Hapipi -- Shack / Murray Edmond -- Making it otherwise / Michael Jackson -- 'What are known in New Zealand ... ' / Wystan Curnow -- Sad joke on a marae / Apirana Taylor -- The parakeets at Karekare / Allen Curnow -- The names / Lauris Edmond -- Whakatu / Keri Hulme -- A game for children / Iain Sharp -- Night and noises / Glennis Foster -- Ferret trap / John Newton -- The invincible / Hugh Lauder -- The back road back / Kim Eggleston -- Black dress / Elizabeth Nannestad -- Over the Harbour Bridge / Amber McWilliams -- Going over the the Harbour Bridge happy poem / Michael Morrissey -- Thelonious Monk piano / Bob Orr -- Viola / Meg Campbell -- The divided world / Owen Marshall -- Compulsory class visits / Roma Potiki -- Postcard / David Eggleton -- Vanilla rim / Michele Leggott -- Chevy / Brian Turner -- For Bob Orr, again / Geoff Cochrane -- A cortége of daughters / Elizabeth Smither -- Northern oaks / Graham Lindsay -- We listen for you on the radio / Virginia Were -- Make sure / Jenny Bornholdt -- The blues / Alan Riach -- Cabin fever / Anne French -- Proposal at Allans Beach / Iain Lonie -- Bowl / Bernadette Hall -- No problem, but no easy / Michael Harlow -- I was a feminist in the eighties / Anne Kennedy -- The smell of her hair / Janet Charman -- Bubble trouble / Margaret Mahy -- Fast cold / Forbes Williams -- How to talk / Andrew Johnston -- My father's stutter / Damien Wilkins -- At the grave of Governor Hobson / C.K. Stead -- The historian / Stephen Sinclair -- Concrete / Stephanie de Montalk -- We don't know how lucky we are / John Clarke -- Waka 99 / Robert Sullivan -- Marton / David Geary -- Why our washing machine broke / Jo Randerson -- Security / Kapka Kassabova -- The tank / Vivienne Plumb -- Ode to the Waihi Beach dump / Gregory O'Brien -- Letter to friends from Daley's flat hunt: walking the rees and the dart / Emma Neale -- Two word poem / Laura Ranger -- Fontanello / Anna Jackson -- The quiet place / Rhian Gallagher -- Dog's body / Chris Price -- Wild dogs under my skirt / Tusiata Avia -- Communion / Glenn Colquhoun -- The strong mothers / Rachel Bush -- I come from Palmerston North / James Brown -- Documentaries / Kate Camp -- IYA / Sonja Yelich -- Nowhere / Adrian Croucher.

Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Menton - chooses the top 121 NZ Poems (but includes only one poem by any poet) A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century. The historical ordering by subject matter gives a sense of New Zealand as a place which grows and changes over the years. The first edition was published in 1993, reprinted twice in 1994 and again later in the decade, now unavailable for five years. There is plenty of fine new work from new poets over the past 10 year to sustain an expanded edition: Glen Colquhoun, Kate Camp, Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Emma Neale, James Brown, Chris Price, Kapka Kassabova and Sonja Yelich. NZ Poetry has been in a powerful moment of its life over the past few years. -Google Books