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Poem — Leonard Lambert
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…
Poem – Leonard Lambert
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.…
Poem – Leonard Lambert
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…
Poem – Leonard Lambert
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…
From the edges, Anna Livesey
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
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Leonard Lambert
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 –…
Poem — Leonard Lambert
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…
Poem — Leonard Lambert
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,…
Persevere, dear reader, Leonard Lambert
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
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review