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This page has details of my recent published and forthcoming poetry, including links to poems available online. Many of these poems are included in my second poetry collection, All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens. My Early Poems page has details and links for poetry published up to and including my first poetry collection, Boat People.
Tim reading at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Creative Writing Day on 20 March 2004. What glorious weather!
Forthcoming poems
Queens Of Silk, Kings Of Velour in JAAM 28, 2010.
Poems on my blog
From time to time, I republish some of my previously-published poems on my blog. In newest-first order, these are:
- Fallen (with German translation, Niedergang)
- Three Constellation Poems: Antlia, Horologium, Octans
- First Light
- North
- The Outsider
- An Adventure; Norah Jones or System of a Down; New Live Dates
- 1917
- Going Back
- Coverage; The Season
- Stone; The First Artist on Mars; Red Canvas
- The Weather; At the Gate; Action Man Is Sleeping; Elfland
- Oprah Relents
- Wellington
- South
- Wind Walks the Hand
- What to Call Your Book
Published poems
Newest publications are listed first.
In a World Without Pity, a Town With Fear; As you know, Bob; happened to meet in Enamel 2, 2010.
Summer in Bravado 18, 2010.
Family Man and Over Islands in JAAM 27, 2009.
Losing Weight in Astropoetica 7.2, Summer 2009.
Down George Street in the Rain in broadsheet 3, 2009.
The Penciller and Nightlife in Enamel #1, March 2009.
The Outsider in Bravado 14, 2008, p. 28. "The Outsider" won second prize in the 2008 Bravado International Poetry Competition.
Two poems: Extras and Go Crazy Frog!, in Takahe 63 (Autumn 2008), p. 10.
Shostakovich in America in Bravado 11, 2007, p. 14. "Shostakovich in America" won third prize in the 2007 Bravado International Poetry Competition.
Peaks and Inheritance in Poetrywall: Winter Readings 2007.
The Season, in North & South, August 2007, p. 99.
Zoopermarket, in Poetry Pudding, an anthology of poetry for children edited by Jenny Argante (Reed Publishing, June 2007).
Coverage, in North & South, May 2007, p. 105. Reprinted in Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood (Random House, 2008), edited by Emma Neale.
Two poems: Screeched to a Halt, Bluecliffs Beach, Southern Ocean Review 43, April 2007
The Wrong Horse, in New Zealand Books (Autumn 2007), p. 15.
Blue Dismembered Hills, in Takahe 59 (December 2006), p. 36.
1987A, in Astropoetica (Spring 2006).
Four poems: Later, the Water, First Light, Accountant, Appearances, in Bravado 7, July 2006.
Honey Moon, in the New Zealand Listener, 18 March 2006, p. 42.
Five poems: Watching the Birds, Tethered Flight, Flyboy at the Stadium, The Master at Work, The First Artist on Mars, in Blackmail Press 15, March 2006.
Notes from the Futurist Project, in Lynx XXI, 1 February 2006.
Summoning, in Strange Horizons, 13 February 2006.
Two Creek Beach, in North & South, December 2005, p. 127.
At Lake Sylvan, Southern Ocean Review 37, October 2005
King Arthur Today (haiku), in Learning a Language: New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology 2005, edited by Margaret Vos.
Rescue by Sea, Imports and Exports, and Wellington, in Caught on Canvas: Richard Ponder's Wellington, ed, Richard and Alicia Ponder (Coombe House, 2005). For more about this book, see the Art Gallery New Zealand web site.
Love Scene with Monks and South in The Manuka Tree: Winter Readings 2005, edited by Mark Pirie (ESAW, 2005). South was subsequently reprinted in Poetry Aotearoa vol. 3 no. 2, September 2005, p. 20.
Oprah Relents, in the New Zealand Listener, 2 July 2005, p. 42.
What to Call Your Book, in the New Zealand Listener, 11 June 2005.
Tuesdays, in the New Zealand Listener, 30 April 2005, p. 40.
Two poems: Replicant, No Oil, Southern Ocean Review 35, April 2005
Wind Walks the Hand, in the New Zealand Listener, 19 March 2005, p. 44.
Good Solid Work, in Dreams and Nightmares 70, February 2005 (US).
Two poems in the Astropoetica Solar System issue (Volume 2.4 of Astropoetica, published in December 2004):
Ares Vallis, 1997- subsequently reprinted in Dwarf Stars: 30 Stellar Short-Short Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Poems from 2004, edited by Deborah P. Kolodji.
The Translator, first published in New Zealand Books (December 2004), p. 20, reprinted in Best New Zealand Poems 2004.
Love Scene with Monks and Death Gets Wheels, in The Pedestal Magazine 24 (Nov-Dec 2004).
An Adventure, in JAAM 22, November 2004.
Norah Jones or System of a Down, in papertigermedia 04, October 2004.
Stones, in Coffee House Poetry 3 (May 2004). Stones is reprinted from Boat People, and Stones (with Smaills Beach) is available on the HeadworX web site.
1917 and Gore Housewives' Choice, in Spirit Abroad: A Second Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse, ed. Harry Ricketts, Paul Morris and Mike Grimshaw (Random House, 2004). These poems are reprinted from Boat People.
That's Far Enough, in Astropoetica (Summer 2004). This poem is reprinted from Boat People.
Going Back, in North & South, July 2004, p. 102; reprinted in The Poetry Olympics, edited by Tony Chad (Upper Hutt City Council, 2008), p. 24.
Red Canvas, in Star*Line 27.3, May/June 2004.
Story of Princes, in Dreams and Nightmares 68, May 2004 (US).
Two poems: Tea with Maggie, New Live Dates, Southern Ocean Review 31, April 2004
Landscape with Poets, in Turbine 2003.
Three poems in the Astropoetica anthology of the constellations (Volume 1 of Astropoetica, published in October 2003):
There are lots of great poems in Astropoetica - it's well worth reading!
The Wise Ape and The New Dylan Thomas, in Bookmarks: An Anthology (ESAW, 2003). Bookmarks is an anthology commemorating Wellington bookseller Neil Rowe, of BAM Books, who died in April 2003. Neil and BAM will be missed for, among other things, their championing of local writers. The commemorative anthology will be published in conjunction with a winter series of readings by HeadworX authors.
Queen Amygdala, in Dreams and Nightmares 64, January 2003 (US).
Elfland, in North & South, October 2002, p. 101.
There's plenty more poems on my Early Poems page.
Email me at timjones@actrix.co.nz