The Imaginary Museum

My friend Mary Paul went up north to attend Hone Tuwhare's tangi at his home marae in Kaikohe. Here's the poem she wrote about the o...

Yes, I'm afraid it's another obituary. Bernard Gadd died on December 11th last year, but I only heard about it earlier this month...

Hone Tuwhare [photograph by Meg Davidson] Well, sad news on the yahoo/xtra newspage this morning. Hone Tuwhare has finally died, after...

Well, you can imagine my surprise -- consternation, almost: let's be honest -- when I got home this week to find Theresia's Christm...

i.m. Dr. Theresia Liemlienio Marshall (1940-2007) Once again I have to record a very sad event. My good friend and longtime colleague, Th...

Tony Chad writes in to say: Hi Jack - strange though it may seem (I was in Mexico on 4th July) I have only just heard of Leicester's ...

David Howard writes in to say that this poem by Leicester appeared in the Press today. I guess that as joint literary executors we can join...

[photo by Simon Creasey] Leicester passed away this morning at 1.28 a.m. " The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to b...

Persistence of tussock maxed-out Mastercard Well, I’ve had some rather bad news. My friend Leicester Kyle is in extremis , with term...

A Preliminary Bibliography Longer Poems: Koroneho: Joyful News out of the New Found World (1996) [In A Brief Description of the Whole ...

rustling says Jack and tentative is the wind that blows over dead hills on the Manukau [© Leicester Kyle. Spin 31 (July, 1998): 31].

‘If there were no small pines in the fields,’ he murmured to himself. Such a fitting reference, I felt; far better than any new poem of mine...

Plastic arrows broken off, DOC plaques erode to native yellow. Detour, they said, back on that tramline fuelled by gravity. Irrupting from f...

Leicester at Millerton Absence of rapids on Ngakawau stream. Big Ditch and Little Ditch Creek – impious hand bisects the ‘D.’ Cobweb of rain...

Here's the full text of an article I published in our lamentably shortlived print journal the pander early in 1999: Leicester H. Kyle P...

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)] Blinds (at Massey Albany) blocking the wind’s wolf-howl as students scribble Judith Fredricsen walks past tow...