Poetry

Fred Williams, Brick Chimney, Howqua, 1969. Gouache on paper, 57.5 x 76.5 cm. Private collection, Melbourne, Australia.

• Anonymous. ‘Loverd, thou clepedest me’
• ––––––. ‘What I see in Egoli’
• Armstrong, Marion. ‘Gift’
• Auden, W. H. ‘Lines to Dr Walter Birk on his Retiring from General Practice’
• Baxter, James K. ‘The Christmas Meditation of Concrete Grady’
• ––––––.  ‘A Pair of Sandals’
• ––––––. ‘A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting’
• ––––––. ‘Air Flight to Delhi’
• ––––––. ‘He Waiata o Hemi’
• ––––––. ‘Letter from the Mountains’
• ––––––. ‘Rocket Show’
• ––––––. ‘Shalimar’
• ––––––. ‘Song to the Holy Spirit’
• ––––––. ‘Song to the Lord God on a Spring Morning’
• Berrigan, Daniel. ‘Some’
• Berry, Wendell. ‘Amish Economy’
• Bingham, Geoffrey C. ‘Beyond Despair’s Beyond’
• ––––––. ‘Creation’
• ––––––. ‘David: Psalm 51′
• ––––––. ‘Identification’
• ––––––. ‘Love Is the True Pain’
• ––––––. ‘O Cross of Christ, O place of bliss’
• ––––––. ‘Wrath Averted’
• ––––––. ‘Where, Then, is the Sting?’
• Birnie, John. ‘The Chapel, St Martin’s Island’
• Blake, William, ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
• Bly, Robert. ‘Call and Answer’
• Boisseau, Michelle. ‘The Fury That Breaks’
• Broadbridge, David. ‘Rembrandt: David and Uriah’
• Brown, George Mackay. ‘Epiphany Poem’
• ––––––. ‘January’
• Burnside, John. ‘At My Father’s Funeral’
• Cairns, Scott. ‘Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous’
• ––––––. ‘To Himself’
• ––––––. ‘The Entrance of Sin’
• ––––––. ‘Into Hell and Out Again’
• Carson, D. A. ‘Eleven’
• Casaldáliga, Pedro. ‘Deixa a Cúria, Pedro!’
• Case, Edward Murray. ‘In Memoriam: Ernst Cassirer’
• Clemo, Jack. ‘On the Death of Karl Barth’
• Clutterbuck, Charlotte. ‘Why I still go to church’
• Cohen, Leonard. ‘I have not lingered in European monasteries’
• Colquhoun, Glenn. ‘Playing God’
• Cording, Robert. ‘Advent Stanzas’
• ––––––. ‘April Peepers, Flaubert, and Springsteen’
• ––––––. ‘After A Mockingbird’
• ––––––. ‘Christmas Soccer Game, 1915’
• ––––––. ‘Luther and the Devil’
• ––––––. ‘Mozart’s Starling’
• ––––––. ‘Much Laughter’
• ––––––. ‘Parable of the Moth’
• ––––––. ‘Peregrine Falcon, New York City’
• ––––––. ‘Staying Awake’
• Crotty, Michael. ‘Story of God’
• Davis, Noel. ‘And there is no dawn’
• Donne, John. ‘Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward’
• Douglas, Keith. ‘How To Kill’
• Duffy, Carol Ann. ‘Mrs Lazarus’
• Eich, Günter. ‘End of August’
• ––––––. ‘Journey’
• ––––––. ‘Topography of a Better World’
• Eliot, T. S. ‘Ash Wednesday’
• ––––––. ‘‘East Coker’, Part IV’
• ––––––. ‘Journey of the Magi’
• Esquivel, Julia. ‘They Have Threatened Us With Resurrection’
• Gaunt, Alan. ‘For P T Forsyth 1848-1921’
• Goroncy, Jason. ‘Assembly’
• ––––––. ‘Karitane, New Year’s Day’
• ––––––. ‘The Killing Tree’
• ––––––. ‘Regained’
• ––––––. ‘Carrying’
• ––––––. ‘Change of Address’
• ––––––. ‘Gathering’
• ––––––. ‘An (irregular) ode to Uncle Karl’
• ––––––. ‘It doesn’t matter that I lost my shoes‘
• ––––––. ‘On Max Ernst’s “The Virgin Chastises the infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the Painter” (1926)’
• ––––––. ‘Otago Farmers’ Market’
• ––––––. ‘A preacher’s morning hours’
• ––––––. ‘Sabbath’
• ––––––. ‘Sometimes parenting is like raking leaves’
• ––––––. ‘Tui’

• ––––––. ‘Samuel Johnson, 1709–84’

• ––––––. ‘Pinkfoot, Hawarden’
• ––––––. ‘black friday’
• ––––––. ‘You lie here’
• Goroncy, Judy. ‘Being, After Martin’
• Guite, Malcolm. ‘Mother Julian’
• Hall, Donald. ‘Advent’
• Hamill, Chrissy. ‘(Bend, motherfucker, bend.)’
• Hardy, Thomas. ‘To My Father’s Violin’
• Hart, Kevin. ‘The Last Day’
• Heaney, Seamus. ‘Chorus’
• ––––––. ‘Death of a Naturalist’
• Hill, Geoffrey. ‘Tenebrae’
• Holper, David. ‘Weekend Plans’
• James, Clive. ‘The Eternity Man’
• ––––––. ‘Sentenced to Life’
• Jennings, Elizabeth. ‘The Annunciation’
• Jennings, Kate. ‘Father and Daughter’
• Johnson, Trygve David. ‘Advent’
• Jones, David. ‘A, a, a, Domine Deus’
• Jones, Joshua. ‘On Behalf of the Committee’
• Jones, Susan. ‘Unseasonable Journey’
• Kenseth, Arnold. ‘Death and Resurrection’
• ––––––. ‘A Praise in Advent’
• ––––––. ‘Sunday’s Hour’
• Larkin, Philip. ‘Church Going’
• Lawrence, D. H. ‘Song of a Man Who Has Come Through’
• Leunig, Michael. ‘Carnival of the Animals’
• ––––––. ‘Underpants Which Have In Winter Sagged (A Hymn for Spring)’
• Levertov, Denise. ‘A Cure of Souls’ 
• Loader, William. ‘The tears touch the red dust beneath our feet’
• Lumsden, David. ‘Cosmè Tura: St Dominic, c. 1475’
• ––––––. ‘Hermit’
• Malouf, David. ‘Long Story Short’
• Mariani, Paul. ‘What the Father Came to See’
• Masters, Edgar Lee. ‘Silence’
• McAlpine, Rachel. ‘Here It Is’
• McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler. ‘Simeon with the Christ Child in the Temple’
• McQueen, Cilla. ‘Riddles’
• Miłosz, Czesław. ‘A Poem For the End of the Century’
• ––––––. ‘A Song On The End Of The World’
• Mitchell, Paul. ‘Get the Word’
• ––––––. ‘Beatitudes‘
• Morgan, Edwin. ‘Open the Doors!’
• Muir, Edwin. ‘The Incarnate One’
• ––––––. ‘The Transfiguration’
• Murray, Donald S. ‘Iolaire’
• Murray, Les. ‘Animal Nativity’
• ––––––. ‘Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn’
• ––––––. ‘The Mitchells’
• ––––––. ‘The Muddy Trench’
• ––––––. ‘One Kneeling, One Looking Down’
• ––––––. ‘Poetry and Religion’
• O’Donohue, John. ‘The Annunciation’
• O’Siadhail, Micheal. ‘Motet’
• ––––––. ‘Out of the Blue’
• Oliver, Mary. ‘Wild Geese’
• Page, Geoff. ‘My mother’s God’
• Paisley, John. ‘Christmas’
• ––––––. ‘Credo and Petition’
• ––––––. ‘Forty Days and Forty Nights’
• ––––––. ‘Jacob Recalls the Fight at Peniel’
• Paterson, A. B. Banjo. ‘A Bush Christening’
• ––––––. ‘He Giveth His Beloved Sleep’
• Prewer, Bruce. ‘Emmaus’
• Quenon, Paul. ‘My Novices: late 1950s’
• Raffills, Mark. ‘The child is your king’
• Read, Herbert. ‘Bombing Casualties: Spain’
• Sexton, Anne. ‘Jesus Summons Forth’
• ––––––. ‘The Sickness Unto Death’
• Shaw, Luci. ‘Holding On’
• ––––––. ‘Recognition’
• ––––––. ‘Virgin’
• Shea, John. ‘The Man Who Was a Lamp’
• Shetler, Kaitlin Hardy. ‘A Christmas Poem’
• Southwell, Robert. ‘Marie Magdalen’s complaint at Christ’s death’
• Slavitt, David R. ‘Cough’
• ––––––. ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’
• ––––––. ‘Stupid’
• ––––––. ‘What Is Poetry About?’
• Stead, C. K. ‘Without’
• Stevenson, Anne. ‘The Minister’
• Stratman, Jacob. ‘a poem for my sons when they yell at God’
• Strauss, Jennifer. ‘The Anabaptist Cages, Münster’
• Szymborska, Wisława. ‘Hard Life with Memory’
• ––––––. ‘Vermeer’
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord. ‘The Kracken’
• ––––––. ‘Vastness’
• Thomas, R. S. ‘Anniversary’
• ––––––. ‘Annunciation’
• ––––––. ‘The body is mine and the soul is mine’
• ––––––. ‘The Bright Field’
• ––––––. ‘Children’s Song’
• ––––––. ‘The Coming’
• ––––––. ‘The Country Clergy’
• ––––––. ‘The Empty Church’
• ––––––. ‘God’s fool, God’s jester’
• ––––––. ‘He atones not with blood’
• ––––––. ‘Hill Christmas’
• ––––––. ‘It is one of those faces’
• ––––––. ‘Lord of the molecule’
• ––––––. ‘A Marriage’
• ––––––. ‘The Musician’
• ––––––. ‘Not the empty tomb’
• ––––––. ‘Resurrection’
• ––––––. ‘There is a being, they say’
• ––––––. ‘They set up their decoy’
• ––––––. ‘To be alive then’
• ––––––. ‘The Waiting’
• ––––––. ‘The Word’
• Thorpe, Grant. ‘Conscience’
• Turner, Brian. ‘Dictionaries of National Biography’
• ––––––. ‘From Bracken’s Lookout, Dunedin’
• ––––––. ‘July, Carey’s Bay’
• ––––––. ‘On Top of the World’
• ––––––. ‘Otago Peninsula’
• ––––––. ‘Place’
• ––––––. ‘Presbyterian Support Services’
• ––––––. ‘Sadness and Shadow’
• ––––––. ‘Semi-Kiwi’
• ––––––. ‘Some reasons why I got this job’
• ––––––. ‘Vane’
• ––––––. ‘The Vernacularies’
• Updike, John. ‘Seven Stanzas at Easter’
• van Dorp, Catherine. ‘Thoughts on being The Registrar’
• Villiers, Annie. ‘Mended’
• Wallace, Bill. ‘Synod’
• Walls, Don. ‘Manic Depression’
• Watson, Maureen. ‘Memo to J.C.’
• Weston, Tom.‘Painting the fall’
• Williams, Rowan. ‘Advent Calendar’
• ––––––. ‘Rublev’
• Wright, Franz. ‘5:00 Mass’
• ––––––. ‘Baptism’
• ––––––. ‘Old Story’
• ––––––. ‘One Heart’
• Wright, Judith. ‘Judas in Modern Dress’
• Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt. ‘Ffrom depth off sinn’
• Yeats, W. B. ‘The Fascination of What’s Difficult’
• ––––––. ‘The Second Coming’