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Denis Glover wrote New Zealand's most famous poem, yet his work has been out of print for many years. This fresh selection from his verse includes 'The Magpies' along with a wide variety of other poems, lyrical and satirical. Bill Manhire's selection is based on Glover's own 1981 Selected Poems, and it reveals a richer and far more lively writer than the one usually found in anthologies.
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ARAWATA BILL
The Scene
Mountains nuzzle mountains
White-bearded rock-fronted
In perpetual drizzle.
Rivers swell and twist
Like a torturerās fist
Where the maidenhair
Falls of the waterfall
Sail through the air.
The mountains send below
Their cold tribute of snow
And the birch makes brown
The rivulets running down.
Rock, air and water meet
Where crags debate
The dividing cloud.
In the dominion of the thorn
The delicate cloud is born,
And golden nuggets bloom
In the womb of the storm.
Arawata Bill
With his weapon a shovel
To test the river gravel
His heart was as big as his boots
As he headed over the tops
In blue dungarees and a sunset hat.
Wicked country, but there might be
Gold in it for all that,
Under the shoulder of a boulder
Or in the darkened gully,
Fit enough country for
A blanket and a billy
Where nothing stirred
Under the cold eye of the bird.
Some climbers bivvy
Heavy with rope and primus.
But not so
Arawata Bill and the old-timers.
Some people shave in the mountains.
But not so
Arawata Bill who let his whiskers grow.
I met a man from the mountains
Who told me that Bill
Left cairns across the ravines
And through the scrub on the hill
ā And theyāre there still.
And he found,
Together with a keaās feather,
A rusting shovel in the ground
By a derelict hovel.
It had been there long,
But the handle was good and strong.
The Search
What unknown affinity
Lies between mountain and sea
In country crumpled like an unmade bed
Whose crumbs may be nuggets as big as your head
And itās all snow-sheeted, storm-cloud fed?
Far behind is the blue Pacific,
And the Tasman somewhere ahead.
Wet or dry, low or high,
Somewhere in a blanketfold of the land
Lies the golden s...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- EXPLANATORY
- HOME THOUGHTS
- SUNDAY MORNING
- EPITAPH
- ALL OF THESE
- THE ROAD BUILDERS
- HOLIDAY PIECE
- LETTER TO COUNTRY FRIENDS
- IN FASCIST COUNTRIES
- NOT ON RECORD
- STAGE SETTING
- THE MAGPIES
- A WOMAN SHOPPING
- THOUGHTS ON CREMATION
- THRENODY
- CENTENNIAL
- ARROWTOWN
- LEAVING FOR OVERSEAS
- SAILORāS LEAVE
- BURIAL AT SEA, OFF FRANCE
- SINGS HARRY
- OLAF
- IN MEMORIAM: H. C. STIMPSON
- A FAREWELL LETTER
- FOR A CHILD
- TO A WOMAN
- RETURNING FROM OVERSEAS
- A NOTE TO LILI KRAUS
- OFF BANKS PENINSULA
- DUNEDIN REVISITED
- ARAWATA BILL
- NOTES
- INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
- Copyright