Poem of the Week: Playing Husbands and Wives by Adrian Harrison

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Poem of the Week

Recession by Mary Cresswell
From: Nearest and Dearest. Steele Roberts, to be published later this year.

On Lambton Quay the latte drips
from bravely stiffened upper lips

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Poem of the Week: the astronomer’s Christmas

From Moonshot By Harvey Molloy

Steele Roberts, $20

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Poem of the Week: The C.O’s by Donald Baxter (brother of Archibald and uncle of James K Baxter)

Originally published in Harry Holland’s Armageddon or Calvary: The Conscientious Objectors and ‘The Process of their Conversion’ (1919). Republished in Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s anti-militarist tradition by David Grant with paintings by Bob Kerr. (Portrait of Archibald Baxter right.)

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Poem of the Week: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

From: Harmonic by Stephen Olive

Interactive Publications, Brisbane, Australia. $A25 Read more »

Poem of the Week: I Can’t Stand it Any More by Michael Rosen

The week following the ousting from Parliament of New Zealand’s only anti-immigrant party, New Zealand First, seems a good time to point people in the direction of this choice piece of performance poetry by Britain’s Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen. Read more »

Poem of the Week: I HATE RAIN! (4 Hone 2-Far-Eh)

By David Geary

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Poem of the Week: A Long Way From Home

From: The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt

Victoria University Press, October 2008

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Poem of the Week: A Concrete Conveyance Channel

From: Beauty of the Badlands by Chris Fell

Victoria University Books, October 2008, $25

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Poem of the Week: Old Ninika by Joseph Stalin

From: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Phoenix Paperback, $35

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