Whim Wham's New Zealand : the best of Whim Wham, 1937-1988 / edited by Terry Sturm.
Material type: TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2005Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1869417577
- 9781869417574
- NZ821.2 22
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NZ 821.2 COC Wonky optics / | NZ 821.2 COM This city / | NZ 821.2 CUR The bells of Saint Babel's : poems 1997-2001 / | NZ 821.2 CUR Whim Wham's New Zealand : the best of Whim Wham, 1937-1988 / | NZ 821.2 DAV How to live by the sea / | NZ 821.2 DAV Stunning debut of the repairing of a life / | NZ 821.2 DAV Common land : poems and essays / |
Poems by Allen Curnow.
Includes index.
Pt. 1. 1937-1949. Lament. In praise of suburbs. For internal use only. Drainage dirge. Munich. Other days, other ways. The nutgrower's plight. Spain 1940. Inside the shell. After all that. A weakness. Any complaints?. Cockrow. Getting culture. Seeing red. Popular front. Tommy and Jimmy. Familiar ring. Controlus-bolus. Total loss. Fate a 'Frisco. Alien ways. Auld land syne. Desperanto. Conspiracy. ... of the Big Bad Book?. Back to normal. Atom atoll. No. Last stand. The stooge. Serenade. Gnashing of teeth. A treat for all. What, again, Colonel?. Chosen people? Local colour. O happy banned. Know-how. Time and the gas meter. Well I'll be averaged. White man's country -- Pt. 2. 1950s. Our sober senselessness. And you shall have more pie. There is a tavern. The patient needs quiet. Adam and Eve and up-we-go. Calling all crackpots. Hell's kitchen garden. Isn't culture fun!. Green grow the cabbages O. The decent thing. Pioneer stock. Overseasia. Call that living!. As it happens, it happens. How dazzling is your vista?. How to like Ike. Modesty's a good thing too. Dead duck à la russe. Patients - are they human?. This side up with care. This side up with care. Leave it to Sid. Very high class. Times and places. The life of the party. For everybody's benefit. Brown cows and kiwis. The Servile stomach. The culture of cities. And so onward. Let's face factors. Please, teacher!. First hatch your Sputnik. The life and death of the party. Got a match?. A private bar?. After the fallout. Unequalled equals. A song of freedom. Chosen people -- Pt. 3. 1960s. Grace before meat?. The last All Whites. Summits, past and present. Unspoilt Nature, Ltd. From Head Office. A nation in the faking. Unpakeharliamentary. The number is ten. Fi-vates-a-for-tee. Take your time, history!. Don't go away sad, either. The kick they get out of it. Bonds, past and present. A funny dream. How to watch a situation. A little common sensorship. Let's show them. Do no really sinful action. Dead equal. The cynic at the break-up. Oh, give him a concept!. True to our colours?. True to our colours?. Deep water. Now we're in business. The school for standards. Values, chiefly cash. Democracy is a good dog. Nothing for a place. Finding yourself a seat. Owner going abroad?. Has my absence been noticed?. Our image of our image. Very specially written. Paying guests. What wind are we sowing?. Dark week. Pity they have to grow up. Have you read his latest?. Chilly on the sideline. The fact is -- Pt. 4. Chinaware. The majority is always silent. Second-hand is the best buy. How to be an Anglo-Saxon. We have been here before. Let's call it selective. We're waiting breathlessly. Portrait of an artist (H.J.S. 1913-1970). Wake me up if it's urgent. A variety of roles. The future is fiction. A developing situation. The summit of our powers. Wellington and Napoleon. The magic of words. Truth up for auction. Truth is what I tell you. Pecking at the crumbs. Instant power. The oil boils over. Room at the bottom. For forms one and two. Copies of an old Ms. What's death to a decade?. And a very new year it was. Our two great nations. Legerdemain. Task forces, tanks etc. Learning the language. Spots on the windscreen. Not the only pebble?. The higher up the mountain. And Rob's your uncle. Your friendly forester. That was the future. Come, fly with me. Lines for an old horse. The super bludger. A lesson to the poor. Feet on the ground -- Pt. 5. 1980s. How guilty is sin?. Notice any change?. Operative word. Big times coming. What's our game?. Our other language. Peasants' noses. It's all one ball game. Let the best side win. Learn your alphabet. Maggie with a difference. If only we knew. Have you a moment?. Today is a good dog. A historic place. Disnealand's not far. See you at Waitangi. Don't hurry, history. Masc., fem., neut.. He likes his joke. Andrei and Ronald. Sales talk. Choose your own slum. Muldoon's wake. The ABC of failure. Rating our chances. What do we expect?. The umpire is a lady. The Jolly Roger. Showing us Howe. This man was democracy. Horns of a dilemma. Fundamental faith. Speech day. Christmas cards. Everything must go. Remedial politics. Lean time coming?.
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