The nature of things
Subtitle: poems from the New Zealand landscape
By: edited by James Brown ; photographs by Craig Potton
Publisher: Craig Potton Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nelson, NZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781877333330
Subjects: Poetry; In literature; Pictorial works; Landscapes in literature; Nature in literature; Literature
Notes: "Poets include: James K. Baxter [and others]"--Cover.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 Finalist.
Table of contents: title: Deep in the hills  -- Ruth Dallas; title: Lake, mountain, tree  -- Denis Glover; title: Collecting pipi  -- Glenn Colquhoun; title: Crossing the Canterbury Plains  -- Brian Turner; title: Hope  -- Dinah Hawken -- At the Franz Josef Glacier / -- James K. Baxter; title: The end  -- Janet Frame; title: Still shines when you think of it  -- Vincent O'Sullivan; title: Haiku  -- Hone Tuwhare; title: In the territory  -- Maurice Duggan; title: Lake idyll  -- Lauris Edmond; title: Ornamental gorse  -- Chris Orsman; title: Place  -- Brian Turner; title: Make sure  -- Jenny Bornholdt; title: A summer at Purakanui  -- Iain Lonie; title: Waitomo  -- Kendrick Smithyman; title: A dead lamb  -- Allen Curnow; title: Waitohi  -- Rhian Gallagher; title: Candour  -- Ursula Bethell; title: In Central Otago  -- Ruth Dallas; title: To Ernst Dieffenbach  -- Ian Wedde; title: The scene  -- Denis Glover; title: So you don't belong, pohoot  -- Naomi O'Connor; title: The cave  -- James K. Baxter; title: Far north  -- Brian Turner; title: Matukituki  -- Michael Jackson; title: Small apocalypse  -- John Dickson; title: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods  -- Allen Curnow; title: The Sounds  -- Andrew Johnston; title: Seeing the Red Hills again  -- Kerry Popplewell; title: Low tide, Aramoana  -- Cilla McQueen; title: Storm warning  -- Gregory O'Brien -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / -- James K. Baxter; title: A talk with my cousin, alone  -- Hone Tuwhare; title: The magpies  -- Denis Glover; title: The issue of water  -- Dinah Hawken; title: Alp  -- Brian Turner; title: Aftermath  -- Meg Campbell; title: The old man's example  -- Bill Manhire; title: Violinist at the edge of an ice field  -- Stephanie de Montalk; title: A white gentian  -- Sam Hunt; title: Luncheon Cove  -- Cilla McQueen; title: Snow  -- Janet Frame; title: Flood  -- Hone Tuwhare; title: Waiotapu  -- Fionnaigh McKenzie; title: Talking to a tree fern  -- Dinah Hawken; title: Forerunners  -- Charles Brasch; title: Pinnacle Ridge, Mt Ruapehu  -- Kevin Ireland; title: The estuary  -- A.R.D. Fairburn; title: September  -- Lauris Edmond; title: The sea question  -- Elizabeth Smither; title: Opening the book  -- John Newton; title: Proposal at Allans Beach  -- Iain Lonie; title: Kapiti  -- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell; title: Weathered rocks  -- Ursula Bethell; title: High country weather  -- James K. Baxter; title: Magpie crooning -- Bill Manhire.