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Poem — Leonard Lambert

Posted on December 5, 2015 by NZ Books

The Enamelled Box When they unearth the mass graves and discover the rivers of blood, or even stop to puzzle over a million lost golf-balls, may they also find medical instruments of ingenious design and exquisite precision; Let them…

Tagged with: Issue 112, Leonard Lambert, Summer 2015
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Poem – Leonard Lambert

Posted on December 5, 2015 by NZ Books

Hinterland What lands lie east of here? North and south are known, and west, but to the east, to my left, the country folds in upon itself and falls away, rising in the near distance to a long tableland.…

Tagged with: Issue 112, Leonard Lambert, Summer 2015
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Touch of darkness, Sarah Jane Barnett

Posted on August 29, 2014 by NZ Books

Shadow Play
James Norcliffe
Proverse Hong Kong
ISBN 9789881993588

Great South Road and South Side
Tony Beyer
Puriri Press
ISBN 9780908943395

Remnants
Leonard Lambert
Steele Roberts
ISBN 9781927242285

Curriculum Vitae
Harold Jones
Xlibris
ISBN 9781493137527 (e-book also available)

James Norcliffe is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher who has published six collections of poetry. Published five years after his last collection, Shadow Play was a finalist for the annual international Proverse Prize in 2011. The collection is one of curiosity in action. In a generous preface, Bernadette Hall sums up the appeal of Norcliffe’s poetry: his “quick, clever, jinky words” and “gift for being seriously funny”. While Norcliffe excels at whimsy, the poems are also wry and accomplished, especially the exceptional “Lost in Nineveh”, “Ichthyosaurus” and “Towards the Mountain” (a poem for Pat Hammond).

Tagged with: Harold Jones, Issue 107, James Norcliffe, Leonard Lambert, Proverse Hong Kong, Puriri Press, Sarah Jane Barnett, Spring 2014, Steele Roberts, Tony Beyer, Xlibris
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Poem – Leonard Lambert

Posted on June 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Riders to the Shore Surf I never saw as merely what happens to ocean when it meets the shallows – waves to me were always more akin to living things, a kind of water-beast, the sea’s attempt at entity. Summer…

Tagged with: Issue 90, Leonard Lambert, Winter 2010
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Poem – Leonard Lambert

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Community Service Any inland town a washed-out afternoon, life is not quite a gift, more like a sentence – community service of a sort. Pushing prams getting the kids off to school, wondering what to do about the fucking…

Tagged with: Issue 68, June 2005, Leonard Lambert
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From the edges, Anna Livesey

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

It Was a Tuesday Morning Peter Olds Hazard Press, $25.00, ISBN 187727075X Natural Anthem Leonard Lambert HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473098032 Recessional Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0476002710 Peter Olds published work in the iconoclastic literary magazine Freed in the late…

Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 67, Leonard Lambert, Peter Olds, Spring 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Poem – Leonard Lambert

Posted on September 1, 2001 by NZ Books

In the Garden Place, amoroso Coming in from every boxed and metal thing I stumbled on this courtly crowd – I was on my best behaviour, hope it showed. Down every aisle I nodded, noted every winning smile –…

Tagged with: Issue 55, Leonard Lambert, Spring 2001
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Poem — Leonard Lambert

Posted on June 27, 1995 by NZ Books

Me & You, Mills & Boon CHAPTER ONE. We met among trees and the round familiar walked again the lovely gullies and all their wooded ways, nodding at the hidden houses where the blue sea winks at every window and…

Tagged with: Issue 18, Leonard Lambert, Winter 1995
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Poem — Leonard Lambert

Posted on December 22, 1994 by NZ Books

Seacorn For Bob Orr, who knows that coast You sent me down for sea‑corn deep among the rocks below the jetty ‑ It’s a delicacy, you said. Pick one of three. At the bach we found the water off,…

Tagged with: Issue 16, Leonard Lambert, Summer 1994
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Persevere, dear reader, Leonard Lambert

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Best Beakerful Dean Farran Productions, Christchurch, 1991, $12 Missing Parts: poems 1977-1990 Alan Loney, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $19.95 Metaphysics for Fun Ross Fraser, Dragonfly Press, Auckland, 1991, $15 Waiheke Art and Poetry Pamela Reid (ed), P O Box 202,…

Tagged with: Alan Loney, Dean Farran Productions, Dragonfly Press, Hazard Press, Issue 6, John Patterson, Jye Kang, Leonard Lambert, Nagare Press, Pamela Reid, Ross Fraser, Spring 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review