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Jack Ross: Poems

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Dr Jack Ross: I've published several poetry collections - including Chantal's Book (2002), Celanie (2012), A Clearer View of the Hinterland (2014) and The Oceanic Feeling (2021) - as well as a number of works of fiction: among them The Annotated Tree Worship (highly commended in the 2018 NZSA Heritage Book Awards), Ghost Stories (2019), and Haunts (2024). I've also edited numerous books, anthologies and literary journals, incIuding Landfall and Poetry New Zealand. In 2022 I retired from my job teaching at Massey University to pursue my other interests full-time.

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Bibliography Sites

Works & Days (1981- ): Complete Curriculum Vitae & List of Publications
Poems (1981- ): Collected Poetry Books & Chapbooks
Opinions (1987- ): Published Essays, Interviews, Introductions & Reviews
Stories (1996- ): Collected Short Stories & Novellas
Showcase (1998- ): Major Books & Publications in Chronological Order
A Gentle Madness (2009- ): Complete Catalogue of my Book Collection

Book Sites

Perdrix Press (1997- )
Pania Press (2006- )
Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000)
Trouble in Mind (2005 / e-book 2020)
The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006 / e-book 2020)
E M O
EMO (2008 / e-book 2020)
The REM Trilogy Interview, with Gabriel White (Nov / Dec 2008)
Papyri (2007- )
Kingdom of Alt 1: Banned Books (2008-10)
Kingdom of Alt 2: Crisis Diaries (2008-10)
Kingdom of Alt (2010 / e-book 2020)
Tree Worship (2011-12)
Paper Table (2017- )
Poetry NZ Index (1951-2020)
Ghost Stories (2019)
Ghost Stories (e-book 2020)

Research Sites

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2002-4)
Brief magazine: Index (1995- )
Bronwyn Lloyd: Daemons & Dream Children (PhD: Auckland, 2005-10)
Jacket 2 Commentary: Notes on NZ Poetry (2012)
John Masefield: Early Novels 1908-11 (MA: Auckland, 1984-85)
Lectures (2010-)
Leicester Kyle: Index (2011-12)
Leicester Kyle: Texts (2011-12)
Michele 2021: A Birthday Festschrift for Michele Joy Leggott (18/10/21)
NZSF: Essays on New Zealand Speculative Fiction (2010-20)
Scheherazade's Web: The 1001 Nights and Comparative Literature (1991-95)
Social and Cultural Studies Monograph Series (2009-11)
Versions of South America (PhD: Edinburgh, 1986-90)

Guest Essays & Postings

Tony Chad on Leicester Kyle (2006)
Bronwyn Lloyd on Robin Hyde & Stella Benson (2007)
Bronwyn Lloyd on Rita Angus (2008)
Mary Paul on Hone Tuwhare (2008)
June Ross on the Dangers of Depleted Uranium (2007)
Richard Taylor on Celanie (2016)
Paula Green on The Oceanic Feeling (2021)

Poetry (internal links)

A Town Like Parataxis (2000)
Before the Storm (2009)
Christchurch, 15th March 2019 (2020)
Civil War (2001)
Concern for Tony Veitch's Safety (2009)
Coromandel (2003)
Cut-price Stalin: An Ode to Trump (2026)
Dream Poems (1989/94/95)
Except Once (1998)
First Love (1998 / 2017)
Gettysburg (2016)
Grenfell Tower Block Fire (2017)
Heroes: 3 Takes (2007)
Houseboat Days (2023)
Ice Road Trucker (2015)
Jay Checks His Father into a Home (2014)
Journey to the West (1998-99)
Last Conference before Passchendaele (2010)
Library Dreaming: Wallace Stevens Meets the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (2013 / 2021)
Memories of Conan the Cimmerian (2001)
Noughts and Crosses (2005)
NZ's Next Top Model Speaks (2009)
Oh br/other! (2022)
Rather a Shock (2021)
Rear Window (2024)
Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
Seven Levels of the Waterfall (2002)
Situations ii: CBD (1998 / 2010)
Stranded Polar Bear (2019)
The Britney Suite (2001)
The Counterfeiters (2013)
The Late Romances: Pericles (1986)
The President of the Philippines (2016)
To His Coy Bookcase (after Marvell) (2025)
To Terezín (2007)
Tod und Verklarung (1991)
Towards Banks Peninsula (2003)
Trump said (2017)
Vainglory (2008)
Vampires (2010)
Volcanic Glass (2008)
Xmas (2006)
Xmas Poem (2012)
Zero at the Bone (2023)

Stories

Ars combinatoria (2005)
The Cat (2006)

Translations

Andre Breton: Free Love (2005)
Apollinaire: 1913 (2017)
Apollinaire: Hunting Horns (2017)
Arthur Rimbaud: Poets at Seven Years Old (1991-97)
Auckland nach dem Regen (2010)
C. P. Cavafy: Ithaka (2004)
Camionero sobre hielo (2017)
Choruses from The Society of Inner Light (2012)
Divine Comedies (1): Trilogies (2012)
Divine Comedies (2): Translations (2012)
Divine Comedies (3): A Dante Translator's Primer (2012)l
Ezra Pound: The Italian Cantos (1991)
Heinrich Heine: Orpheish (2009)
Howard (2021)
J. L. Borges: Metaphors of the 1001 Nights (1995)
J. W. von Goethe: Amerika (2024)
Marie de France: The Nightingale (2012)
Montale's Eel (2008)
Osip Mandelstam: Insomnia (1915)
Ovid in Otherworld (2006)
Ovid: Metamorphoses (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses I (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses II (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses III (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses IV (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses IX (2009)
Ovid: Metamorphoses V (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses VI (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses VII (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses VIII (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses X (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses XI (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses XII (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses XIII (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses XIV (2007)
Ovid: Metamorphoses XV (2007)
Paul Celan: Already (2010)
Paul Celan: Poems from Schneepart (2000)
Poets in Translation: Cavafy in English (2026)
Poets in Translation: Akhmatova in English (2026)
Poets in Translation: Mandelstam in English (2026)
Poets in Translation: Rimbaud in English (2026)
Rimbaud: Poets at Seven Years Old (1991-97)
Sappho: Love-poems & fragments (2007)
The Puppet Oresteia (2008)
Theme & Variations (2010)
Verano / Summer (2017)

Essays & Reviews (external)

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (2004)
A Conversation with Graham Lindsay (1998)
A Few Thoughts on Sampling (2005)
Alan Brunton (2003)
Alan Brunton, My Publisher (2002)
Bill Direen (2004)
Blog Carnival 2: Past Myths, Present Legends (2012)
Closedown, hibernate, restart (2012)
Digitising Leicester Kyle (2012) [video]
Enactments of Identity in the NZ Short Story (2017)
Hearts on the Run: Poetry Panels in Sydney (2010)
In Love with the Chinese Novel (2009)
Is there a future for the poetry blog? (2009)
Jacket2 NZ Poetry Feature (2011)
Joanna Margaret Paul (2005)
Old Shore (2012)
Olwyn Stewart (2005)
Scroll, Codex, Hypertext (2009)
Smithymania (2003)
Stephen Oliver (2005)
Sydney Plenary Session (2010) [audio]
Ted Jenner (2009)
The 20-year Masterclass (2011)
The book that got me started (2012)
The Lonesome Death of Bridget Furey (2019)
The Tolkien Industry (2009)
Tracey Slaughter (2005)

Essays & Reviews (internal)

1,000,000 Hits! (2018)
10 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (2016)
100 Years of Darkness (2023)
11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month (1918 / 2018)
1913 (2013)
2,000,000+ Hits! (2024)
20 Favourite 20th-century Long Poems (2008)
20 Favourite 20th-century Novels (2008)
28 Days Haunted & Other Spooky TV Shows (2022)
3,000,000+ hits! (2025)
A Day out with David Howard (2012)
A Mann for All Seasons: The Magic Mountain (2021)
A Short History of Fairy Tales (2010)
A Triptych for Lee Dowrick (2013)
A Visit to Colville (2010)
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Alfred Kubin: The Other Side (2024)
Amis & Son (2023)
Arabian Nights (1): Translations (2008)
Arabian Nights (2): Comics (2009)
Arabian Nights (3): A Single-Volume Edition (2010)
Arabian Nights (4): Richard F. Burton (2013)
Arabian Nights (5): Henry Torrens (2021)
Ashes to Ashes: Geoffrey Ashe (2013)
Aspects of Emily (2025)
At the Sign of the Unicorn: i.m. Richard Wasley (2011)
Auckland's New Unitary Plan: A Warning from History (2013)
Auden: The Complete Poems (finally!) (2022)
Auden's Elegies of Exile (2024)
Australian Masterchef (2009)
Band Docos (2026)
Battlestar Galactica = Iraq War (2008)
Bedside Books (2012)
Behrouz Boochani and Kyriarchy (2019)
Berlin, 1938 (2011)
Bernard Gadd: obituary (2008)
Bibliomania (2025)
Breaking the Maya Code (2022)
Bruxelles & la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (2019)
Byzantium (2024)
Cancelling Russia? Lev Tolstoy (2022)
Capote in Kansas (2022)
Car Epics (2008)
Carver by Name ... (2009)
Cats and/or Vases (2008)
Christmas Books = Christmas Cheer! (2024)
Christmas Presents - & Happy New Year (2026)
Churchill on Screen (2017)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Algernon Blackwood (2024)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Ann Radcliffe (2020)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (2021)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Arthur Machen (2020)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Colin Wilson (2018)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: E. T. A. Hoffmann (2018)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Edward Lucas White (2020)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: H. P. Lovecraft (2018)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: J. Sheridan Le Fanu (2018)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: L. P. Hartley (2024)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Margaret Irwin (2021)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Michael Cox (2018)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Walter de la Mare (2012)
Classic Ghost Story Writers: Wilkie Collins (2021)
Classic NZ Poets Teaching Notes (2006)
Classical Chinese Novels (2008)
Collecting Paul Celan (1) (2011)
Collecting Paul Celan (2) (2016)
Confederates (2025)
Contemporary NZ Poets Teaching Notes (2007)
Copernicus & Mallock: 2 Bizarre Books (2013)
Craig Harrison (1): Broken October (2019)
Craig Harrison (2): The Quiet Earth (2019)
Craig Harrison (3): Days of Starlight (2019)
Cultural Amnesia & the PBRF (2011)
Der Bau (2019)
Dirty Politics (2014)
Doctor Zhivago Revisited (2020)
Doubting Thomases (1): Edward Thomas (2013)
Doubting Thomases (2): Dylan Thomas (2013)
Doubting Thomases (3): R. S. Thomas (2017)
Dreamtigers: i.m. Sarah Broom (2013)
Easy Pieces: Reading Popular Books on Science (2025)
Edgar Allan Poe and The Pale Blue Eye (2023)
Euhemerism (2025)
Excursions in the Proust-iverse (2019)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions (2011)
Faith in Fakes (2011)
Fakery (2009)
Famous Seamus: Lament for a Maker (2013)
Fast Thinkers and Ghost Writers (2021)
Favourite Children's Authors: A. A. Milne (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Alan Garner (2018)
Favourite Children's Authors: E. Nesbit (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Geoffrey Trease (2019)
Favourite Children's Authors: Jane Langton (2021)
Favourite Children's Authors: Joan Aiken (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: John Masefield (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: John Pudney (2022)
Favourite Children's Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Lewis Carroll (2020)
Favourite Children's Authors: Margaret Mahy (1986)
Favourite Children's Authors: Mary Stewart (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Peter Dickinson (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Roald Dahl (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Rosemary Sutcliff (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: Rudyard Kipling (2025)
Favourite Children's Authors: T. H. White (2026)
Favourite Children's Authors: William Mayne (2025)
Fen Country: Edmund Crispin (2022)
Fifty Years of Randle McMurphy (2012)
Finds: A Japanese Doll (2024)
Finds: Fenollosa & Waley (2020)
Finds: Hone's Christmas Gift (2015)
Finds: Maurice Duggan's Copy of G. M. Hopkins (2010)
Finds: Modern Poetry - c. 1938 (2017)
Finds: R. A. K. Mason on Rewi Alley - 1955 (2010)
Finds: The Ocean of Story (2011)
Finds: The Works of Malory (1947-48)
Finds: Thoroughly Munted (2011)
Finds: Titus & Ross (2010)
Finds: Tree Worship (2010)
Franz Kafka: Parables and Paradoxes (2021)
Freud's Last Session (2024)
Fun with Fracking (2013)
Gabriel White: Interviews (2008)
Gabriel's Groundhog Day (2006)
Gibbonian Periods (2013)
Gore Vidal: Narratives of Empire (2023)
Gothic NZ (2007)
Greeneland (2019)
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)
Hammett & Hellman (2024)
Haut 80s (2012)
Henry James: The Legend of the Master (2019)
Herman Melville as Poet (2018)
Hershel Parker: Archivist Agonistes (2021)
Homage to Roland Huntford (2012)
Hone Tuwhare: obituary (2008)
Hooked on Classics (2009)
House, M.D. (2008)
How do you prove if ghosts are real? (2025)
How many Eskimo words are there for snow? (2008)
I Am Lost Without My Boswell (2017)
I Love Dick 20 years on (2015)
Idle Days (2024)
In Auden's Shadow (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Cecil Day-Lewis (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Geoffrey Grigson (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Louis MacNeice (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Michael Roberts (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Rex Warner (2020)
In Auden's Shadow: Stephen Spender (2020)
In the Court of the Crimson King (2012)
Indexing Poetry NZ (2016)
Interesting Times: i.m. Mario Vargas Llosa (2025)
Isherwood (2018)
Islomanes (1): Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia (2019)
Islomanes (2): Elizabeth Knox's Southland (2019)
Islomanes (3): Elizabeth Knox's Mortal Fire (2019)
J. G. Ballard: obituary (2009)
Jack & Bronwyn's Dunedin Adventure (2012)
Jack & Bronwyn's Shanghai Adventure (2016)
Jack's Aussie Adventure (2010)
Jack's Beijing Adventure (1): The Course (2018)
Jack's Beijing Adventure (2): The Wall (2018)
Jack's Beijing Adventure (3): The Forbidden City (2018)
Jack's Beijing Adventure (4): To Peking University (2018)
James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (2023)
James Family Values (2022)
James Hogg: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2022)
James Thin & the Library of America (2019)
Jen Crawford's bad appendix (2008)
Jimmy's Riddles (2024)
John Bunyan, Chief of Sinners (2017)
John Clare / Charles Baudelaire (2018)
John Cowper Powys (2009)
John Cranna's Arena (2019)
John Dolan (2006)
Johnsons or Shits (2010)
Judge Dee (2024)
Just Another Funloving Aucklander (2010)
Juvenilia (2020)
K. M. Ross: The Blinding Walk (2014)
Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences (2019)
Landfall 214 (2007)
Leicester Kyle & Paul Celan: 2 Corrections (2016)
Leicester Kyle: obituary (2006)
Levi the Memorious: A Survivor's Tale (2021)
Lost Bookshops of Auckland (2017)
Magister Ludi: Hermann Hesse (2021)
Mark Young (2009)
Martha Stewart's Apprentice (2006)
Martin Edmond (2009)
Massey Life Writing Course (2006)
Masson-omania (2012)
Meeting Paul Celan (2003)
Memories of Don Smith (2023)
Memories of Gilbert & Sullivan (2024)
Memories of Overdevelopment (2009)
Memories of Paul Edwards - & the Icelandic Sagas (2025)
Merry Tales of Skelton (2022)
Michael Morrissey: Tropic of Skorpeo (2012)
Mike Johnson (2007)
Millennials (1): Harry from the Agency (2019)
Millennials (2): Dylan Horrocks' Hicksville (2019)
Millennials (3): Skylark Lounge (2019)
Millennials (4): Song of the Brakeman (2019)
Miss Herbert (2010)
Moon Man Blues (2011)
Movies about Creative Writing Teachers (2016)
Movies about English Teachers (2016)
Movies about Writers (2016)
Must We Burn Alice Munro? (2024)
My Favourite Vintage Bookshops: Auckland CBD (2023)
My Favourite Vintage Bookshops: North Shore (2023)
My Favourite Vintage Bookshops: Ponsonby (2023)
My Favourite Vintage Bookshops: Waikato (2023)
My Grandmother & the Folio Society (2019)
My New Bookcase (2022)
Napoleon - For and Against (2023)
New NZ Poets Teaching Notes (2008)
Novelists in their 80s (2018)
NZ Poet Laureate blog (2008)
NZ's Best: Matt Harris & Miriam Smith (2012)
NZSF (2006)
Of the Devil's party without knowing it (2023)
On Not Writing Disaster Poems (2011)
Orientalism & It s Enemies (2009)
Orwelliana (2017)
Penguin Modern Poets 50 Years On (2018)
Penguin Poets in Translation (2018)
Pessoa World (2018)
Peter Reading: obituary (2012)
PhD Days (2023)
Phillip Mann (1): Pioneers (2010)
Phillip Mann (2): Wulfsyarn (2010)
Phillip Mann (3): Alternative History (2010)
Pictures from an Exhibition (2010)
Poetic Genealogies (2010)
Poetry First Editions (Penguin) (2025)
Poetry Publishing (2009)
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (2016)
Pressure Cooker (2024)
Prints from a forgotten camera (2012)
R. I. P.: Dr John Mackenzie Ross (2013)
Ramon Llull and Curriculum Mapping (2015)
Real Illusions: i.m. Russell Haley (2016)
Redology (2024)
Reviews of Alt (2011)
Richard & Victor Taylor (2025)
Risorgimento! (2021)
Robert Lowell (2012)
Robert Lowell Revisited (2019)
Robin Hyde & The Book of Iris (2009)
Rosie Scott and the Mother of All Budgets (2019)
Russian Foreign Languages Publishing House (2019)
Sacha Jones: One Woman's World (2016)
Salman Rushdie: Joseph Anton (2012)
Sandmania (2022)
Sarah Broom's British & Irish Poetry (2006)
Scott Free: brief magazine (2007)
Selling C. S. Lewis (2011)
Seven Stages of Book Collecting (2021)
SF Luminaries: Arthur C. Clarke (2021)
SF Luminaries: Frank Herbert (2021)
SF Luminaries: Gene Wolfe (2022)
SF Luminaries: H. G. Wells (2021)
SF Luminaries: Isaac Asimov (2020)
SF Luminaries: John Christopher (2023)
SF Luminaries: John Wyndham (2021)
SF Luminaries: Jules Verne (2021)
SF Luminaries: Mary Shelley (2020)
SF Luminaries: Orson Scott Card (2022)
SF Luminaries: Philip K. Dick (2024)
SF Luminaries: Ray Bradbury (2023)
SF Luminaries: Robert A. Heinlein (2020)
SF Luminaries: Robert Silverberg (2024)
SF Luminaries: Stanislaw Lem (2018)
SF Luminaries: Ursula K. Le Guin (2018)
SF Luminaries: Walter M. Miller, Jr. (2022)
SF Luminaries: William Golding (2021)
Sin City Tow (2025)
Sir John Lubbock's 100 Books (2022)
Slightly Foxed (b.o.f.)
Something to Say: i.m. John O'Connor (2015)
Spenser's Ireland (2017)
Spirit of '92: Albert Wendt's Black Rainbow (2019)
Stephen King: Fairy Tale (2022)
Stokes Point (2010)
Stokes Point Revisited (2012)
Strange Coincidences (2010)
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (2021)
Stu Bagby (2008)
Stuff the British Stole (2025)
Tad Williams and the Rise of Epic Fantasy (2018)
Taking Early Retirement (2021)
Teaching Creative Writing (2008)
Teddy Boy (2017)
The 11 Books of Rudyard Kipling (2018)
The Annotated Arabian Nights (2024)
The Antikythera Conundrum (2024)
The Art of the Annotated Edition (2025)
The Art of the Literary Anecdote (2020)
The Black Swan (2017)
The Bounty Mythos (2024)
The Christmas Truce (2014)
The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story (2016)
The Cricket in the Lecture Room (2011)
The Cult of the Bully (2026)
The English Opium-Eater (2017)
The Enigma of George Borrow (2021)
The Fiction of G. K. Chesterton (2018)
The Garnett Family (1): Richard, Edward et al. (2019)
The Garnett Family (2): In Defence of Constance (2019)
The Garnett Family (3): "Bunny" (2019)
The Garnett Family (4): Richard the Third (2019)
The Ghost in Hamlet (2025)
The Ghostseer (2014)
The Gold Bug (2022)
The Great Storm (2023)
The Intrepid Ghost-Hunters (1): Waitomo Caves (2012)
The Intrepid Ghost-Hunters (2): Thames & Te Aroha (2013)
The Intrepid Ghost-Hunters (3): Home Turf (2015)
The island is full of noises: i.m. Derek Walcott (2017)
The Kindness of Reviewers (2008)
The King in Yellow (2019)
The Life of the Mind (2023)
The Literature of the Civil War (2012)
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (2010)
The Machine Stops (2020)
The Magician: Thomas Mann or Colm Tóibín? (2022)
The Many Faces of Dorothy L. Sayers (2022)
The Material Interests: Reading Joseph Conrad (2022)
The Mysteries of Ashburton (2019)
The Mysteries of Auckland: H. P. Lovecraft (2021)
The Mysteries of Auckland: Jules Verne (2021)
The Mysteries of Rotorua (2019)
The Peripeteia of Frances Yates (2018)
The Plot Thickens: Thoughts on Narrative (2012)
The Queen's English Society on Poetry (2008)
The Quest for the Great World War II Novel (2024)
The Red Flag Bookshelf Revisited (2025)
The Road Not Taken (2023)
The Sleep of Reason (2010)
The Spookers Experience (2015)
The Summer Palace, Beijing (2019)
The Talented Mr. Carpenter (2018)
The Terror (2019)
The Tolkien Industry (2009)
The Tribulations of T. E. Lawrence (2019)
The True Story of the Novel (0): Introduction (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (1): The Eastern Frame-Story (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (2): The Greek and Roman Novel (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (3): The Japanese Monogatari (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (4): The Medieval and Renaissance Romance (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (5): The Sagas of Icelanders (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (6): The Chinese Novel (2013)
The True Story of the Novel (7): The Modern Novel (2014)
The Uncollected Henry James (2025)
The Winchester House (2009)
The World of Charles Dickens (2022)
The World of Dracula (2023)
The World of Hercule Poirot (2024)
The World of Shakespeare (2025)
The Worst Novel Ever? (2020)
The Wreck of the Batavia (2023)
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall: obituary (2007)
Three Cool Cats: Brighton, Chan & Crawford (2009)
Tim Powers (1): Strange Itineraries (2016)
Tim Powers (2): My Brother's Keeper (2025)
To Room 237 (2016)
Top Bards (2026)
Top Ten Favourite Poems (2012)
Top Ten Pandemic Classics (2020)
Torchwood: Children of Earth (2010)
Traffic (2007)
Troy Town (2024)
Two Jameses (1): M. R. James (2011)
Two Jameses (2): Henry James (2012)
Two Jameses (3): "Two Doctors" (2012)
Two Versions of Mawson (2016)
Two Versions of Shirley Jackson (2016)
Two Views of the Writer (2009)
Unpacking My Comics Library (2009)
Vampires (1): Marginalising Dracula (2010)
Vampires (2): Vampirology (2010)
Vampires (3): Dracula's Guest (2010)
War Nerd (2008)
Was Shakespeare a woman? (2024)
What is the "Writer's Voice"? (2009)
What the Dickens? (2022)
What's up with Emily? (2022)
Which Book Would You Most Like to Annotate? (2018)
Who the heck is Solar Pons? (2024)
Why I Like Tom Holland (2015)
Why John Masefield? (2009)
Why Robert Graves? (2014)
Why Siegfried Sassoon? (2017)
Why W. H. Auden? (2014)
Words and Places (Oban 2006)
Worried about the Illuminati? (2016)
Yoknapatawpha Blues (2018)
You headed for Hicksville? (2020)

Launches & Events

10th Anniversary - Tin (2016)
11 Views of Auckland (2011)
13 Book Launches (1998-2006)
15th Anniversary - Crystal (2021)
2 events in 1 night (2009)
2010 - Our Year in Review (2011)
2011 - Our Year in Review (2012)
4 Poets & Dave (2001)
5th Anniversary - Wood (2011)
6X10 Poetry Event (28/9/24)
A Clearer View of the Hinterland (2014)
Allen Curnow Symposium (2017)
Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive (2002-4)
Auckland Central Library Seminar (8/11/2025)
Brief (1995-2007)
Bronwyn Lloyd: Lugosi's Children (2011)
Bronwyn Lloyd: One Brown Box (2010)
Bronwyn Lloyd: The Second Location (2011)
Bryan Walpert: Late Sonata Launch (7/12/20)
Can Poetry Save the Earth? (2018)
Canberra VC's Poetry Prize (2016)
Celanie & brief 46 (2012)
Changes at Poetry NZ (2014)
Devonport Library Poetry Reading (23/8/2022)
Dianne Firth: Poetry and Place (2017)
Double Whammy: brief 50 / Kyle's Millerton Sequences (2014)
Dual Booklaunch at Objectspace (2011)
EMO (2008)
Fallen Empire Invitation (2012)
Flying Blind (2009)
Fourth Anniversary Giveaway! (2010)
Gabriel White: Oracle Drive (2013)
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Leicester Kyle: Collected Poems (2011)
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M. K. Joseph: Tomorrow the World (2020)
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Michele 2021 (19/10/21)
Michele Leggott: Vanishing Points (2017)
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Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia (2011)
Scheherazade's Web (1991-95)
Shanghai (2016)
Some Ads (2010)
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Tara McLeod: 8 Poems by New Zealand Poets (2019)
The Age of Slaughter (2016)
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The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander (2009)
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