The nature of things : poems from the New Zealand landscape / edited by James Brown ;photographs by Craig Potton.

Anthology of poems. Contents: Deep in the hills / Ruth Dallas -- Lake, mountain, tree / Denis Glover -- Collecting pipi / Glenn Colquhoun -- Crossing the Canterbury Plains / Brian Turner -- Hope / Dinah Hawken -- At the Franz Josef Glacier / James K. Baxter -- The end / Janet Frame -- Still shines when you think of it / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Haiku / Hone Tuwhare -- In the territory / Maurice Duggan -- Lake idyll / Lauris Edmond -- Ornamental gorse / Chris Orsman -- Place / Brian Turner -- Make sure / Jenny Bornholdt -- A summer at Purakanui / Iain Lonie -- Waitomo / Kendrick Smithyman -- A dead lamb / Allen Curnow -- Waitohi / Rhian Gallagher -- Candour / Ursula Bethell -- In Central Otago / Ruth Dallas -- To Ernst Dieffenbach / Ian Wedde -- The scene / Denis Glover -- So you don't belong, pohoot / Naomi O'Connor -- The cave / James K. Baxter -- Far north / Brian Turner -- Matukituki / Michael Jackson -- Small apocalypse / John Dickson -- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods / Allen Curnow -- The Sounds / Andrew Johnston -- Seeing the Red Hills again / Kerry Popplewell -- Low tide, Aramoana / Cilla McQueen -- Storm warning / Gregory O'Brien -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / James K. Baxter -- A talk with my cousin, alone / Hone Tuwhare -- The magpies / Denis Glover -- The issue of water / Dinah Hawken -- Alp / Brian Turner -- Aftermath / Meg Campbell -- The old man's example / Bill Manhire -- Violinist at the edge of an ice field / Stephanie de Montalk -- A white gentian / Sam Hunt -- Luncheon Cove / Cilla McQueen -- Snow / Janet Frame -- Flood / Hone Tuwhare -- Waiotapu / Fionnaigh McKenzie -- Talking to a tree fern / Dinah Hawken -- Forerunners / Charles Brasch -- Pinnacle Ridge, Mt Ruapehu / Kevin Ireland -- The estuary / A.R.D. Fairburn -- September / Lauris Edmond -- The sea question / Elizabeth Smither -- Opening the book / John Newton -- Proposal at Allans Beach / Iain Lonie -- Kapiti / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Weathered rocks / Ursula Bethell -- High country weather / James K. Baxter -- Magpie crooning / Bill Manhire. .

Deep in the hills / Ruth Dallas -- Lake, mountain, tree / Denis Glover -- Collecting pipi / Glenn Colquhoun -- Crossing the Canterbury Plains / Brian Turner -- Hope / Dinah Hawken -- At the Franz Josef Glacier / James K. Baxter -- The end / Janet Frame -- Still shines when you think of it / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Haiku / Hone Tuwhare -- In the territory / Maurice Duggan -- Lake idyll / Lauris Edmond -- Ornamental gorse / Chris Orsman -- Place / Brian Turner -- Make sure / Jenny Bornholdt -- A summer at Purakanui / Iain Lonie -- Waitomo / Kendrick Smithyman -- A dead lamb / Allen Curnow -- Waitohi / Rhian Gallagher -- Candour / Ursula Bethell -- In Central Otago / Ruth Dallas -- To Ernst Dieffenbach / Ian Wedde -- The scene / Denis Glover -- So you don't belong, pohoot / Naomi O'Connor -- The cave / James K. Baxter -- Far north / Brian Turner -- Matukituki / Michael Jackson -- Small apocalypse / John Dickson -- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods / Allen Curnow -- The Sounds / Andrew Johnston -- Seeing the Red Hills again / Kerry Popplewell -- Low tide, Aramoana / Cilla McQueen -- Storm warning / Gregory O'Brien -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / James K. Baxter -- A talk with my cousin, alone / Hone Tuwhar

Brown matched a wide range of New Zealand poems, that in some way evoke or describe our landscape, with images from the camera of Craig Potton. the poems have been selected and the introduction written by one of the country's leading contemporary poets.