Index of Poems

• Part-poem titles are in italic.
   
• 1.11.96 1
  
• 10 July 1985 The Secret Agent 1
• 12 April The Raid 1
• 12 September 1981 1
• 12.8.96 1
  
• 13.8.96 1
• 14 April The Colonel 1
• 15 April The Governor 1
• 18 October 1836 The Catechist 1
• 1820 The Missionary 1
• 1840 The Dream 1
• 1840 The Treaty 1
• 1848 The Radical 1
• 1849 The Settler 1
• 1860 The Pakeha-Maori 1
• 1860 The Soldier 1
• 1861 The Boy 1
• 1864 The Warrior 1
• 1869 The War 1
• 1875 The Girl 1
• 1889 The Empire 1
• 1889 The Gentleman 1
• 1908 The Actress 1
• 1917 The Mother 1
• 1925 The District Nurse 1
• 1929 The Immigrant Artist 1
• 1932 The Student 1
• 1939The War 1
• 1940 The Wife 1
• 1941 The Soldier 1
• 1942 The Wife 1
• 1943 The Soldier 1
• 1944 The Boy 1
• 1945 The Anniversary 1
• 1945 The Explanation 1
• 1945 The Soldier 1
• 1947 The Orchestra 1
• 1951 The Wharfie 1
• 1956 East 1
• 1956 West 1
• 1963 – HiJKL 1
• 1965 1
• 1968 made 1
• 1971 The Revolution 1
• 1974 1
• 1975 Saigon 1
• 1990 At the Grave of Governor Hobson 1
• 21 May The Governor 1
• 21.9.96 1
  
• 24 January 1884 The Visit 1
• 25 July 1981 The Clergyman 1
• 25.3.97 1
  
• 26.8.96 1
  
• 29.9.96 1
  
• 30.9.96 1
  
• 31 August 1974 The Private Secretary 1
• 4 April 1986 1
• 5 February The Girl 1
• 5 February The Printer 1
• 6 February The Printer 1
• 8 February The Chief 1
• 8 February The Settler 1
• 8.8.96

• A Charm 1
• A Coastline and Two Facts 1
• A Cow is … 1
• A Discursive Poem about Poetry and
• Thought 1
• À la recherche du temps perdu 1
• A Natural Grace 1
• A New National Anthem 1
• A Note on Sectarian Conflict 1
• A Poem called ‘The Weather in Tohunga Crescent’ 1
• A political poem for the ’seventies 1
• A Reading at the Globe Theatre 1
• A Small Registry of Births and Deaths 1
• A Song for the Season 1
• A Warm Wind from the East 1
• Absence 1
• Address to Two Cats 1
• Adolf 1
• Africa: an Autobiography 1
• After the Wedding 1
• Afternoon with Piano 1
• Afternoon with Violin 1
• Agent Arc-en-Cie 1
• Ai ai tei wun 1
• Alzheimer’s 1
• America (‘She used to sit on that springy turf’) 1
• America (‘There’s a prescient movie’) 1
• America 1
• A-Mo and B-Mo 1
• And could he now … 1
• And you may lay to that … 1
• Angel, 1959 1
• Angel, L.A. 1
• Applause 1
• April Notebook 1
• Ars Poetica 1
• As if Nothing had Happened 1
• At the Villa Andromeda 1
• At Wagner’s Tomb 1
• Auckland (‘After a night of storm’) 1
• Auckland (‘Lovely for the long ago’) 1
• Auckland (‘Low sky’) 1
• Auckland (‘There are dreamscapes’) 1
• August 1915 The Commanding Officer 1
• Autumn 1975 1
• Autumn 1978 1

• Bald Caesarion 1
• Bayonet 1
• Beauty 1
• Bella 1
• Between 1
• Bidding the lover goodbye 1
• Birthday Poem 1
• Black River Blues 1
• Blitzkrieg 1
• Bread etc. 1
• Breaking the neck (‘Breaking the Neck: an Autumn Sketchbook’, 1) 1
• Breaking the neck (‘Breaking the Neck: an Autumn Sketchbook’, 16) 1
• Breaking the Neck: an Autumn Sketchbook 1
• Brit Lits 1
• By Any Standard 1

• C.K. 1
• C.K. 1
• Caesar is still Caesar 1
• Calgary 1
• Campfire 1
• Carpe Diem 1
• Carpe Diem 1
• Cartoons 1
• Cat/ullus 1
• Catullus (1963) 1
• Catullus 1 2
• Catullus Again 1
• Chorus 1
• Choruses 1
• Christmas 1953 The Queen 1
• City fathers 1
• Clodia 1
• Cogito Ergo Sum 1
• Cold Moon 1
• Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ 1
• Compline 1
• Cornwall 1918 The Expatriates 1
• Cosima – Wagner 1
• Creation etc. 1
• Crete 1
• Crossing the Bar 1
• Curaçao 1
• Curtailed 1

• Dad 1
• Dallas, 1963 1
• Dawn Parade 1
• Deconstructing the Rainbow Warrior 1
• Demain des l’aube … 1
• Der Rosenkavalier 1
• Derrida 1
• Descriptions 1
• Dialogue on a Northern Shore 1
• Dissolution 1
• Dog 1
• Dog 1
• Dogma 1
• Dogs I (Society of Authors) 1
• Dogs II (Calvus replies) 1
• Don’t imagine 1
• Dream One & Dream Two 1
• Dreaming Real 1
• Driving to the orthopaedic clinic 1
• Dunedin 1

• E.C. 1
• Early December 1
• Early September 1
• Easter 1916 1
• Ecology 1
• Eden 1
• Elegy (24.1) 1
• Elegy (Ian Lamont) 1
• Elegy (‘The nails of rain are driven’) 1
• Elegy II/xiii (Propertius) 1
• Elements 1
• Eliot, The Waste Land 1
• Embarrassment 1
• Encounters 1
• England 1
• Even Newer English Bible 1
• Even Newer English Bible (2) 1
• ‘Evening at the Green Café’ (Rimbaud) 1
• Exit 1

• Faber & Faber 1
• Fame and Companion 1
• Family matters 1
• Farewell message 1
• Fear? 1
• Feuilles d’automne 1
• Fifteen Letters from the Zebra Motel 1
• For a Children’s L.P. 1
• Four Harmonics of Regret 1
• Four Minute Miler 1
• Four Poems 1
• Fragment XXXI (Sappho), poem LI (Catullus) 1
• Free Will 1
• From the Clodian Songbook 1

• Gerard Manley Hopkins 1
• Global Warming 1
• Gloucestershire 1
• Going to Heaven 1
• Good Morning 1
• Good, better, best … 1
• Goodbye 1
• Gotland Midsummer 1

• H/oration 1
• Haiku 1
• Hania 1
• Hans von Bülov 1
• He learned … 1
• Headstones, Suda Bay 1
• Health Warning 1
• Heaven 1
• Herakles 1
• Here, now 1
• Hill 107 1
• His Round 1
• History 1
• History 1
• History: the Horse 1
• Hollywood 1
• Homage to Ancestors 1
• Honoris Causa 1
• Honours are declined 1
• Horace (2001) 1
• Horace III, 1 2
• Horae Secularae 1
• Hotel Lucia 1
• How it came about 1
• How to Rhyme in 2003 1

• Ice 1
• In Principio … 1
• In that country 1
• In the Clearing 1
• In Tsingsi District Prison 1
• Into Extra Time 1
• Invocation 1
• Irene 1
• Iris again, Auckland, 1960 1
• Iron Gully 1
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel – Bristol, 1830 1
• ‘It is only at the hour of darkness that the owl of Minerva descends’ 1
• I’ve seen the future and it’s O.K. 1

• Janet Frame’s House 1
• Jealousy: Katherine Mansfield, April 1920 1
• Jealousy: Virginia Woolf, January 1923 1
• John Cage at Harvard 1
• Joseph Rubinstein – the Pianist 1
• Just for the Record 1

• Kaiwaka 1
• Karekare 1
• ‘Kay’ 1
• Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 1
• Kendrick Smithyman (1922–95) 1
• Kentucky, 1853 1
• Kin of Place 1

• La Sainte Famille 1
• L’acte gratuit 1
• Laica and other Victims 1
• Last Poem 1
• Last Poem in Australia 1
• Last Post, Suda Bay 1
• Late night, old house 1
• Lawn Order 1
• Le cauchemar 1
• Legs: an Acknowledgement 1
• Les Enfants du Paradis 1
• Lessons in Modern History (i) 1
• Lessons in Modern History (ii) 1
• Letter from the Mountains 1
• Letter to Eve in London 1
• Letter to Frank Sargeson 1
• Letter to R. R. Dyer 1
• Letter to the Enemy 1
• Like 1
• Like 1
• ‘Like to a vagabond flag …’ 1
• Likenesses 1
• Lines Concluding a Lecture on Poetry and Criticism 1
• Lit Crit 1
• Logging, Mangawhai 1
• London 1
• Lone Kauri Road 1
• Long Ago 1
• Long before … 1
• Lord Gannet, Mrs Shag 1
• Lost Dog 1
• Lost in space 1
• Love etc. 1
• Loyalty and Booze 1
• Lucifer Dictates his Reply 1
• Ludwig 1
• Ludwig II – the Young King 1
• Lullaby 1

• Man Alone 1
• Marvel, ‘To his coy Mistress’ 1
• Matins 1
• Maui 1
• May 1941 1
• Meanwhile in Oxford 1
• Meeting of Cultures 1
• Memory 1
• Mercredi-Gras 1
• Messiah 1
• Mid-December 1
• Mid-November 1
• Mid-September 1
• Mind Your Fingers 1
• Minoan 1
• Miroslav Holub in Toronto, 1981 1
• Moon 1
• Moving East 1
• Mr Empson meets his Muse 1
• My Father (a fantasy) 1
• My father and the Waitakere Range 1
• My Fellow Writers at Eaglereach 1
• My Friend Julius 1
• ‘My Recurring Dream’ (Verlaine) 1
• My Sister and M.S. 1
• Myrtle 1

• Navigation 1
• New York 1
• New Zealand 1
• Nietzsche – the Mistake 1
• Nietzsche – the Renunciation 1
• Night Flight, San Francisco–New York 1
• Night Sequiturs 1
• Night Watch in the Tararuas 1
• Nine Nines 1
• Nones (Uzès) 1
• Northamptonshire Notes 1
• Noviciate Sonnet 1
• Now and then 1
• ‘Now is the month of maying …’ 1

• O! 1
• October, constantly 1
• Ode 1
• Ode 1
• Ode I/iv – to Venus (Horace) 1
• Ode to a Grecian Urn 1
• Ode to a Nightingale 1
• Ode to Emptiness 1
• Ode to the Eight Immortals 1
• Of Irony 1
• Of Two who have Separated 1
• Old ‘G’ 1
• Old Pale Gold 1
• On Fame 1
• On the Publication of Frank Sargeson’s Memoirs of a Peon 1
• On Turning Seventy 1
• Otaheiti 1
• Oxford 1
• Oxford, 1996 1
• Oxford, 1997 1

• Paris 1
• Paris: the End of a Story 1
• Party 1
• Patriot 1
• Pendant que le marin … 1
• Personae 1
• Petit Mort 1
• Philosophy 1
• Phoenix, Arizona 1
• Piano 1
• Pictures in a Gallery Undersea 1
• Play it Again 1
• Poem LXXVI (Catullus) 1
• Poem to Suppose the Bird 1
• Poetics 1
• Poetry and Philosophy 1
• Postscript 1
• Prime (London) 1
• Professor Bob 1
• Professor Moon at the Lectern 1
• Psalm 1
• Putting it Straight in London 1

• Quesada 1

• Rapallo: an Economy 1
• Ravidus the Bookman 1
• Real 1
• Red 1
• Remember? 1
• Remembering Anactoria 1
• Reservation 1
• Revisiting Bristol 1
• Robert Graves (1895–1985) 1
• Rome 1960 The Athlete 1
• Rugby World Cup semi-final Sydney 15.11.03 1
• Running in Oxford 1
• Rupert Brooke (1895–1915) 1

• S – T – R – O – K – E 1
• S//crapbook 1
• Scoria: A Reconstruction 1
• Sentry Duty 1
• September, Périgord 1
• Seven poems each beginning with a line by Colin McCahon 1
• Seven sevens 1
• Sext (Gottland) 1
• Shakespeare, sonnet CXVI 1
• Shapely Fact Number Poem 1
• Shelley 1
• Shelley looks to the future 1
• Si quicquam cupido optantique … 1
• So the Ancient Egyptians were right 1
• Soham 1
• Soldier’s poem 1
• Sonnet 1
• Sonnet for a New Zealand Soldier Killed in Korea 1
• Soror, Aue atque Uale 1
• Speaking Plain 1
• Spring 1974 1
• St Francis at Karekare 1
• St John’s College Library, Oxford 1
• St Maximin 1
• Stockhausen: ‘Ylem’ 1
• Stone Figure 1
• Stories 1
• Streams 1
• Suetonius (1974) 1
• Suffenia the Poet 1
• Summer 1
• Sun Block 1
• Sweet and Sour 1
• Sydney 1
• Sylvia 1

• Takapuna 1
• Talking to Bill 1
• Tall Girl 1
• Tapping 1
• Tennyson, ‘The Lady of Shalott’ 1
• Terce (Memory) 1
• That fear makes killers 1
• That geography and history can’t be disentangled 1
• That Particular Morning 1
• That Summer 1
• The abstract 1
• The Advance of English – Lang and Lit 1
• The Albert Park Fountain 1
• The Annunciation 1
• The Art of Poetry (i) 1
• The Art of Poetry (ii) 1
• The Art of Poetry (iii) 1
• The Bandusian Fountain 1
• The Captain’s Servant 1
• The Cat 1
• The Clodian Songbook: 15 Adaptations 1
• The Craft of Poetry 1
• The Death of God 1
• The Dream of the Dream 1
• The Dreams Continue 1
• The exile 1
• The Fijian Police Band Performs in Albert Park, Auckland 1
• The funeral 1
• The Garden 1
• The Giants 1
• The Grandmother 1
• The Hand 1
• The Invitation 1
• The Judge 1
• The Keys of the Kingdom 1
• The Lesson (‘Haiku’ ) 1
• The Lesson (‘Three Caesarian Poems’) 1
• The Magic Bagwash 1
• The Masterwork 1
• The Memory in Stones 1
• The Mirabeau Bridge 1
• The Music Master 1
• The Neighbour 1
• The Other Place 1
• The Painter 1
• The Plum Tree 1
• The Poetry Room 1
• The Poetry Room 1
• The Police Officer 1
• ‘The Portrait’ (Baudelaire) 1
• The Puzzle 1
• The Radiant Way 1
• The real thing 1
• The Red Tram 1
• The return 1
• The Right Thing 1
• The Rower 1
• The Season, Tohunga Crescent 1
• The secret of Zen 1
• The Shadow 1
• The Sparrow 1
• The Swan 1
• The Thrush 1
• The Traveller 1
• The Tree: a Story 1
• The Universe 1
• The Wall 1
• The wild swans cooled 1
• The Wind in the Garden Blew 1
• The Writer (‘Cornwall 1918 The Expatriates’) 1
• The Writer (‘The Tree: a Story’) 1
• The Young Wife 1
• Their names as a poem 1
• Theology 1
• There was a girl … 1
• These white flowers 1
• This March Morning 1
• This May be your Captain Speaking 1
• This Time 1
• Three Adjustments to the Atomic Clock 1
• Three Caesarian Poems 1
• Three Imperatives in White 1
• Three Poems from the Languedoc 1
• To Auntie Huia who made the kete in which Dr Glenn Colquhoun sent me his poems 1
• To Karl Miller at 70 1
• To W. H. Auden on his 60th Birthday 1
• Tonga 1
• Towards Christmas 1
• Trapped Rabbit 1
• Treasure Island 1
• True Tales from Ovid 1
• Tübingen 1
• Twenty-two Sonnets 1
• Two Dates for the Auckland Calendar 1
• Two Sparks 1

• Under the Sun 1
• Uta 1

• Versions of Two Poems by Victor Hugo 1
• Vespers (London) 1
• Veterans, 1998 1
• Viareggio, 1822 1
• Vincent 1

• Wagner – Dog 1
• Wagner & Cosima: Liszt 1
• Waitangi, 2002 1
• Walking Westward 1
• Washington 1
• Wellington 1
• West Country Prose Poem 1
• What they leave behind, and bring 1
• What Will it Be? 1
• Where Alph the Sacred Beater Ran 1
• Where do the Great Composers go when they die? 1
• Whether the Will is Free 1
• Whether the will is free 1
• While down the fleeces of our sky … 1
• Why I didn’t get to Jan and Dieter’s party 1
• Winter Song 1
• With a Pen-Knife 1
• Without 1
• Woken 1
• Words 1
• Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’ 1
• Workshop Cinquains: What am I? 1

• Xanadu 1

• Year’s end quarrel 1
• Yes T.S.: A Narrative 1
• You 1
• You Have a Lot to Lose 1

• Zagreb 1
• Zen (‘Crete’) 1
• Zen (‘Nine Nines’) 1