Demarcations 1. The Violinist in SpringIt is not the blue notes, but the blue touch paper. It is not the... By James Brown
L’Anima Verde Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2014I ki paki waitara rā I repa aitia Tunaroa Nā Māui, ka... By Cliff Fell
Whale Survey, Raoul Island, with Rosemary Dobson Two poets on a headland, mid-survey might pause suddenly and say will this be your whale, or mine? Moving, accordingly,... By Gregory O’Brien
The uprising Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 201420131.Here we are a skinny country in the largest ocean on earth spell-bound,... By Dinah Hawken
Green light In the deep south, the winter light is clear as beauty. There are no half measures – it stares... By James Brown
There, being Monday morning ''So why's he dead?', the reasonable and polite enough query as children witness from the distance, the body moved... By Vincent O’Sullivan
Encounter above the Hurunui A cloud river above the Hurunuiand on the plane there are two Māori bros –one sitting with me until... By Cliff Fell
Erebus voices The Mountain I am here beside my brother, Terror.I am the place of human error. I am beauty and cloud, and... By Bill Manhire
Equinoctial Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2014 A hand’s turn or two A hand’s turn or twoAnd my work... By Geoff Cochrane
Anxiety I'D HAD A successful trip to several South American countries and was boarding a LAN Air flight back to... By CK Stead
Waiheke Island THEY WERE WORRIED about the boy so they sent him to me. I needed a job done. You'd think... By Emily Perkins
Getting to yes HE SAT THERE staring, the book he'd been reading forgotten on the table in front of him. He hadn't... By William Brandt