The unknown sea
Subtitle: an anthology of poems on living and dying
By: selected by Rod MacLeod
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781927242667
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Description: "You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. -- Kahlil Gibran Death is a part of life that none of us can avoid. The poems in this anthology give insight into the world of those who are grieving, facing the death of someone they love, or even facing death themselves. Some illustrate joy and acceptance; others, blackness and despair. Some are angry, sad, descriptive and emotional. There is an enormous range of feelings and experiences on the way towards death and through bereavement. These poems teach us about love and perseverance, patience and frustration, and, above all, about life"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The secret of death; title: Before Death. Calvary Hospital / Meg Campbell; title: The birds / Philip Hodgins; title: Precious time / Rua Longley; title: My death / Raymond Carver; title: What I meant / Hilary Elfick; title: What the doctor said / Raymond Carver; title: Walking through the crop / Philip Hodgins; title: The road not taken / Robert Frost; title: On loving / Rua Longley; title: Sonnet LX / William Shakespeare; title: A life closing down / Rod MacLeod; title: Hands / Natalie Hornyak; title: Code poem for the French Resistance / Leo Marks; title: Elegy / Vincent O'Sullivan; title: Old men / Ogden Nash; title: Rain clouds / Ron Riddell; title: The secret of life's meaning / Dudley Weeks; title: The invitation / Oriah Mountain Dreamer; title: A cancer patient's prayer / Julie Meagher; title: As he came near death / Roy Fisher; title: Poem / Anthea Johnstone Eyres; title: Time of death. From Holy sonnets / John Donne; title: The electric bed / Billy Collins; title: The last hellos / Les Murray; title: Who shall not come again / Ernest Briggs; title: XIV Solomona / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell; title: ^; title: A departure / Apirana Taylor; title: Some notes on the death of my father / Roger Hickin; title: Some time at eve / Elizabeth Clark Hardy; title: Death / Thomas Hood; title: Death has no features of his own / Gwen Harwood; title: Still life / Thom Gunn; title: Death in Leamington / Sir John Betjeman; title: Untitled / Valentine Ackland; title: A death in the family / Bill Manhire; title: The day we die / Southern Bushmen; title: From In memoriam A.H.H. (Section LXXIV) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson; title: The last words of my English grandmother / William Carlos Williams; title: The hour of the parting / Shaw Neilson; title: Intimations of mortality / Kevin Ireland; title: He resigns / John Berryman; title: The dead / Janet Frame; title: The eloquence of silence / Dudley Weeks; title: Late fragment / Raymond Carver; title: Untitled / Terry Fawcett; title: Shroud / George Mackay Brown; title: Beannacht / John O'Donohue; title: From Finding meaning / Balfour Mount; title: The dead / Harry Ricketts; title: XX / Emily Dickinson; title: Parta quies / A E Housman; title: Dead / Ian Mudie; title: ^; title: After death. Before a funeral / Lauris Edmond; title: Rienie has lived / Brian Rathbone; title: You can shed tears that she is gone / Anon; title: When dying did not scare you anymore / Brian Rathbone; title: From Twelve songs / W H Auden; title: Funeral / Paul McGuire; title: An epitaph upon husband and wife who died and were buried together / Richard Crashaw; title: Tangi / Hone Tuwhare; title: Philip Hodgins (1959-1995) / Robert Gray; title: Memory of my father / Patrick Kavanagh; title: This weekend your love survives / Brian Rathbone; title: Remembrance / Emily Brontë; title: The dead / Rupert Brooke; title: Music, when soft voices die / Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: The memorial / Enid Derham; title: Finale / Judith Wright; title: Grief / Raymond Carver; title: Lucy (II) / William Wordsworth; title: The reassurance / Thom Gunn; title: Concession / Meg Campbell; title: Rhododendron gardener / Sue Wootton; title: Sonnet II / Edna St Vincen Millay; title: Coat / Vicki Feaver; title: A remembrance is moving / Juan Ramon Jiménez; title: I miss the arms that held me tight / Terry Fawcett; title: ^; title: The vacuum / Howard Nemerov; title: XIII; title: parting / Emily Dickinson; title: The tulips / Sue Wootton; title: Heavy hen / Sue Wootton; title: Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson; title: The misery cord / Les Murray; title: Your love survives / Brian Rathbone; title: A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth; title: The sunflower / Andrew Johnston; title: Daffodils / Sue Wootton; title: Villanelle / Jenny Bornholdt.