Tim Jones: Early Poems


 
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This page has details of my poetry published up to and including my first poetry collection, Boat People, published in 2002. For recent poems, check out my main Poems page.

Boat People: Poetry collection, published in September 2002. Boat People contains the following poems published for the first time: Haast Pass Poem; Gore Housewives' Choice; Something for the Weekend; North; Aramoana Border Post; Smaills Beach; N.E.V.; Seventeen Years; Cities for Lovers; At the Gate; Confidence Men; Spines of Pioneers; Russian River; Frida Kahlo; Stone Baby; That's Far Enough.

Dante and Isaac Asimov, in Speculon (US), November 2001.

1917, in the New Zealand Listener (September 8-14 2001), p. 62.

Two poems: Walking Down and Out and Action Man Is Sleeping, in JAAM 15, May 2001. Action Man Is Sleeping was reprinted in JAAM 21: Greatest Hits, Feb. 2004.

Two poems: Revenant and The Stars, Natasha, in Dreams and Nightmares 58, January 2001 (US). Revenant reprinted in JAAM 17, May 2002

Two poems: If Looks Could Kill, Writers and Readers, Southern Ocean Review 9, October 1998

Two poems: The Weather, Pastoral, Southern Ocean Review 6, January 1998

Let Loose the Red Rooster, in JAAM 8, November 1997. Available online from Alexandria Digital Literature.

Oh Baby [Bryan Adams], in JAAM 6, February 1997, and in the anthologyThe NeXt Wave, Dunedin, 1998.

Three poems: If Looks Could Kill, They Babies Will Cry, Let Loose the Red Rooster, in Points of Departure (Wellington, 1996), ed. J. C. Sturm.

Two poems: Tailback, Angela Carter, in the 1992 University of Otago Literary Review. Tailback available online from Alexandria Digital Literature.

Please Advise Soonest, in Takahe 9, Spring 1991.

For Anna Akhmatova, in the 1991 University of Otago Literary Review, Boomer.

Two poems: The Wonderful and Frightening World, 342, in the 1990 University of Otago Literary Review, published by O.U.S.A.

Three poems: Oreti Beach, Standby - 15 Seconds, One of the Thieves, in the 1989 Otago University Poetry Society anthology. 

Three poems: Stones, Fallen, Now What, in the 1989 University of Otago Literary Review, published by the Otago University Students' Association. Stones (with Smaills Beach), available on the HeadworX web site.


Email me at timjones@actrix.co.nz

Last Modified: 28 January 2005