Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018

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EDITORIAL 14

A live tradition Jack Ross

FEATURED POET

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Alistair Paterson ONZM A poem for Thomas Merton & Ernest Hemingway How to write fiction Journey to elsewhere Raison d’être (for Dumont d’Urville) Rick’s place — maybe . . . Nobody wants to talk about it Stopping by a cornfield late in the afternoon Te Kooti’s War Therapy The Talisman The Tannery The way things are The valley of the kings Navigator Reading Alan Brunton The Moon and Sixpence Survival The Forest of Tane The fiddler of Dooney Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a serenade) A traveller’s guide to Venice Always becoming: A life in poetry — Alistair Paterson with Jen Webb

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