Poetry
(1981-2024)
Collections:
City of Strange Brunettes . ISBN 0-473-05446-9. Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1998.
Chantal’s Book . ISBN 0-473-08744-8. Wellington: HeadworX, 2002.
To Terezín . Afterword by Martin Edmond. Social and Cultural Studies, 8. ISSN 1175-7132. Auckland: Massey University, 2007.
Celanie: Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan . by Jack Ross & Emma Smith, with an Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd. ISBN 978-0-473-22484-4. Auckland: Pania Press, 2012.
A Clearer View of the Hinterland: Poems & Sequences 1981-2014 . ISBN 978-0-473-29640-7. Wellington: HeadworX, 2014.
The Oceanic Feeling . Drawings by Katharina Jaeger. Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd. ISBN 978-0-473-55801-7. Auckland: Salt & Greyboy Press, 2021.
Chapbooks:
Ezra Pound’s Fascist Cantos (72 & 73) together with Rimbaud’s “Poets at Seven Years Old.” Translated by Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997.
A Town Like Parataxis . Photographs by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07104-5. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000.
The Perfect Storm . Video by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07350-1. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000.
The Britney Suite . Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001.
A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy . ISBN 0-473-10526-8. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005.
Love in Wartime . Wellington: Pania Press, 2006.
Papyri: Love poems & fragments from Sappho & elsewhere . ISBN 978-0-473-12397-0. Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2007.
The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander . ISBN 978-0-9864507-6-1. Dunedin: Kilmog Press, 2009.
Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia . Artwork by William T. Ayton. ISBN 978-0-473-18881-8. Rhinebeck, NY: Narcissus Press / Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2011.
Fallen Empire : Museum of True History in Collaboration with Karl Chitham and Jack Ross. Dunedin: Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2012.
Miscellaneous:
Collage Poems (1997-2005)
Poems from Novels (2000-2008)
Poems from Stories (2004-2019)
Tree Worship (2011-2012)
Uncollected:
Poems: 1981-1999
Poems: 2000-2004
Poems: 2005-2009
Poems: 2010-2015
Poems: 2016-2025
•
[1997 ]:
Killing Time . Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. 20 pp.
Auckland by Night / Brussels by Day (18/4–29/6/96)
One Version of Pastoral (3/6/81–15/8/96)
The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump (25/8/96-2/1/97)
On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
Morning at a Language School (2/9-5/9/96)
A Road through Pylons (8/9-18/10/96)
Killing Time (10/9-18/11/96)
Recovery (22/10/96-15/1/97)
C. P. Cavafy’s The God Abandons Antony (1/96-7/7/96)
Petrarch’s Laura I-III (4/12/96-1/1/97)
Life in a Chinese Novel (24/4/93-17/4/97)
Ezra Pound’s Fascist Cantos (72 & 73) together with Rimbaud’s “Poets at Seven Years Old” . Trans. Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. 44 pp.
[Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXII: Presences (25/7/91-5/97)
[Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXIII: Cavalcanti / Republican Dispatches (25/7/91-5/97)
[Arthur Rimbaud]: Poets at Seven Years Old (7/91-18/5/97)
[1998 ]:
City of Strange Brunettes . ISBN 0-473-05446-9. Birkenhead, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand: The Pohutukawa Press, 1998. 98 pp.
Recovery (22/10/96-15/1/97)
On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
Albany, Quad Block 8 (24/7/97)
One Version of Pastoral (3/6/81–15/8/96)
City of Strange Brunettes (20/5-6/6/97)
East Coast Bays, Winter (16/6/97)
Bayswater, Night (25/7/97)
On the Edge (15/6/97)
Water-slides (9/3-2/4/97)
Before the Rain (1/8/97)
Morning at a Language School (2/9-5/9/96)
Auckland by Night (18/4-8/6/96)
Margarita’s (17/1/97)
Unsent Letter to a Celeb (29/9/97)
Windy Day (10/11/97)
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1/9/97)
Fashion ‘97 (29/7/97)
Two Kaipara Poems :
Baylys Beach Revisited (11/4/97)
Muriwai 1997 (14/6/97)
Dressing Down (12/96)
Angel (9/1/97)
Reading the Entrails (14/3/97)
A Road through Pylons (8/9-18/10/96)
The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump (25/8/96-2/1/97)
Influenza (19/11/97)
Insomnia – 3 a.m. (26/5/97)
End of the Year at the End of the World (24/1/97)
After Rilke (15/10/97)
The God Abandons Antony (1/96-7/7/96)
Poets at Seven Years Old (7/91-18/5/97)
After Petrarch (4/12/96-1/1/97)
Aubade (12/86)
Bilingual Recipe for Big Macs (7/7/97)
Sig.na Greta Eta Meets Sigmund Freud (5/10/97)
Prothalamion (24/2/93)
For Walter Jensen (6/7/96)
Poem for My Nephew (10/5/97)
Elegy for Ames (18/4/91)
Outside Cambridge (12/5/81)
Théâtre antique d’Orange (16/4/81)
On Failing to Meet the Zen Master (10/7/88)
Stanzas of Consolation in Despair (29/7/87)
Inscription in a Copy of The Tale of Genji (10/8/89)
First Love (12/6/81-18/9/97)
After Reading Berryman’s Sonnets (6/5/90)
Sex-Talk (27/2/97)
The Rooftop Cavalier (29/4/97)
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (29/7-4/8/89)
Modem not Responding (12/11/96)
Life in a Chinese Novel (24/4/93-17/4/97)
[1999 ]:
from When the Sea Goes Mad at Night (anthology) . Poems by Alison Denham, Robin McConnell, Theresia Liemlienio Marshall, Jade Reidy, Jack Ross, and Apirana Taylor. Edited by Theresia Liemlienio Marshall. ISBN 0-473-06460-X. Birkenhead, Auckland: Christian Gray New Zealand, 1999. 86-100:
Ashley Gorge (18-19/1/98)
Travel Sonnets
The Longest Day (22/12/98)
Orpheus in the Bays (5/8/97-27/2/98)
Sonnet (22/3/98)
Freeman’s Bay (20/2-25/3/99)
[2000 ]:
A Town Like Parataxis: A Colouring-In Book . Text by Jack Ross, Images by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07104-5. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000. 22 pp.
Swallows and Amazons (7/3 & 11/4-2/6/2000)
Cheating Heart (1/2/99-11/6/2000)
A Town Like Parataxis
Winter’s Tale (16/5-7/6/2000)
Walking Home on a Clear Evening (13/11/98-1/4/2000)
Wysiwyg (8/4/99-29/2/2000)
At the Warhol Look Exhibition (26/8-14/9/99)
Stories we tell ourselves: At the Richard Killeen Retrospective (26/8/99-23/3/2000)
from Nights with Giordano Bruno . R.E.M. Trilogy 1. ISBN 0-9582225-0-9. Wellington: Bumper Books, 2000. 236 pp.
One night of spindrift fog ... (6/12/97-2/9/98)
Look at the picture ... (30/9-13/12/99)
Vampires suck (23/10-19/11/98)
Mercury Lane (3/11/99)
The Perfect Storm . Video by Gabriel White, Text by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-07350-1. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000. 8 pp.
Fire (9/6 & 7/7 & 25/6-3/8/2000)
Grating your hand … (21/4/97)
The Storm (3/7-5/8/2000)
Don’t want no plot … (23/6/2000)
Fusion (9/6 & 26/6 & 1/6-4/8/2000)
Not the butterfly-collector … (22/6/2000)
Poetry Live (7/6 & 3/6 & 13/2-2/8/2000)
[2001 ]:
The Britney Suite , by Paul Celan, Wendy Nu & Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001. 24 pp.
Paul Celan, SCHNEEPART, gebäumt, bis zuletzt … [22/1/68]
Wendy Nu, keith partridge y yo (6/9-21/10/2000)
Paul Celan, ERZFLITTER, tief im … [20/7/68]
Who is Wendy Nu? (25/7/2000)
Nouvelle vague (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
Paul Celan, KALK-KROKUS, im … [24/8/68]
Letter (29/10/2000)
Wendy Nu, mr darling writes to penthouse forum (6/9-21/10/2000)
Paul Celan, DAS GEDUNKELTE Splitterecho … [5/9/68]
It’s always too late … (4-16/11/2000)
Paul Celan, BEIDHÄNDIGE Frühe … [29/9/69]
[2002 ]:
Chantal’s Book . ISBN 0-473-08744-8. Wellington: HeadworX, 2002. 112 pp.
Bronze (20/2-2/12/98)
Melting the Ice-Block (27-28/12/98)
E-Mailing Venus (4/12/98)
Bashō (12/98)
A Woman Named Intrepid (6/12/98)
Ngongotaha (12/98)
There’s Something about Chantal … (20/12/98)
Situations i: Albany
Edge City (21/7/98)
Between OR and Main Campus (10/9/98)
Situations ii: CBD
Auckland nach dem Regen (13/7/98)
Between “The Newton Boys” and “The Big Hit” (31/7/98)
Situations iii: Tauranga
Poetry Festival (29/3/98)
Girls on Film (11/9/98)
Situations iv: Coromandel (2/9/98)
The title (12/98)
Chantal at an Opening (11/12/98)
"It's not the despair ..." (12/98)
Chantal’s Housewarming (11/12/98)
No lonely like tonight (12/98)
Christmas Cards – Tension Headache – The Madwoman in the Bus – Her Plastic Shopping Bags – Thoughts of Marianne (11/12/98)
If (12/98)
Lock, Stock , and … (22/12/98)
All at Sea (23/12/98)
Proverbial Philosophy (28/12/98)
Not the Director’s Cut (6/1/99)
Body Fictions
Water-marbling (7/1/99)
Insight in (12/10/98-16/1/99)
The music of the rain (4/7-14/10/98)
Valentine’s Day ’99 (11/2/99)
The Consolations of Chantal
Mute (13/7/98)
Walk Back (16/10/98)
The Mask of Zorro (17/9/98)
Bound (15/10/98)
Aztec (15/10/98)
Freeman’s Bay (20/2-25/3/99)
Sound Culture (13/3-9/4/99)
The Reason Why (21/3/99)
Idyll (27/3-22/4/99)
Phoenix (after Giordano Bruno):
Tell Briar I got a hammer (28/4/99)
… life is not in our hands … (28/9/98-29/4/99)
les sages et beaux paysages (30/4-27/5/99)
Dream-Chantal
ACTS (15/6/99)
Whatever you do (30/6/99)
Life-Mask (21/7/99)
Chantal: A Creed (4/8/99)
Beloved (13-14/8/99)
Lessons of the Genji: Around the South Island at New Year
[Wednesday, 29th December - 4 p.m.] (29/12/99)
Gathering I: Motueka Midday (30/12/99)
[Thursday, 30th December - 3.15 p.m.] (30/12/99)
Gathering II: Canaan Downs (31/12/99)
[Friday, 31st December - 4 p.m. to Midnight] (31/12/99)
Gathering III: Zone Five (31/12/99)
[Wednesday, 5th January - 1.40 p.m.] (5/1/2000)
Shades of Meaning at Cape Foulwind (5/1/2000)
Vuelvo al Sur (5/1/2000)
Time and Space on the Okari River (5/1/2000)
[Friday, 7th January - 12.40 p.m.] (7/1/2000)
Perseverence Rd (7/1/2000)
[Saturday, 1st January - 5.50 p.m.] (1/1/2000)
Gematria on the Great Divide (7/1/2000)
[Tuesday, 18th January - 11.15 a.m.] (18/1/2000)
ART (7/1/2000)
[Tuesday, 11th January - 3.05 p.m.] (11/1/2000)
Death and The Maiden (14/1/2000)
[Sunday, 16th January - 8.40 p.m.] (16/1/2000)
Approaches to Aoraki (16/1/2000)
[Monday, 8th March - 23:20:57-0500] (8/3/2000)
Tautuku Bush Walk (20/1/2000)
[Monday, 17th January - 1.50 p.m.] (17/1/2000)
Waituna Gorge (21/1/2000)
[Monday, 24th January - 8.20 a.m.] (24/1/2000)
In the Footsteps of Ice Giants (24/1/2000)
Calypso (24/1/2000)
Extreme Green (25/1/2000)
[Monday, 3rd January - 10.55 a.m.] (3/1/2000)
Der Berggeist (26/1/2000)
[Sunday, 23rd January – 3.15 p.m.] (23/1/2000)
Now Entering Parnassus (31/1/2000)
[Sunday, 30th January - 12.15 p.m.] (30/1/2000)
Christchurch from the Air (4/2/2000)
Voyeur (30/12/99-26-27/1/2000)
Chaos AD (4/2/2000)
[Tuesday, 25th January - 9.40 p.m.] (25/1/2000)
What You Read in My Diary (11/2/2000)
[Monday, 27th December - 10.45 a.m.] (27/12/99)
The Bachelors of the Quintessence (11/2/2000)
Tiger Country (2002)
Tiger Country (21 & 28-29/3/02)
Dumb (15/7/97-22/11/98-29/10/01)
Civil War (30/1/01)
Poetry Weekend (28/3/98)
Answers to Correspondence (11/3/99-10/3/01-26/10/01)
On this day I complete my 36th year (6/11/98-21/3/2000)
School (4/8/99)
Late-Nite Movie at Wairau Park (10/1-19/9/98)
Millennium Sermon (25/12/99-11/3/01)
Signs & Portents (27/6, 29/3, 20/6, 13/7, 7/6 & 29/5-1/8/2000)
Tron (6/4-17/5/01)
Slave 4 U (15/11-9/12/01)
Disorder and Early Sorrow (26/6-22/10/01)
Memories of Conan the Cimmerian (15/11-9/12/01)
Corrugated Garage-doors in Gore St. (25/1-16/10/01)
No-one gets on or off (12/2-18/5/01)
Going In (9/11-9/12/01)
Staying Out (9/11-9/12/01)
Intoit (12/11-8/12/01)
Subject: Urgent Assistance (7-9/9/02)
E (27/4-17/5/01)
Breast Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect Women (31/10-2/12/01)
[your name here] (6-9/12/01)
Last Night at the Party (29/6-19/10/01)
Goodbye Love (10/1-22/3/01; 29/6/01; 9-11/9/01)
[2004 ]:
from Monkey Miss Her Now & Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know . ISBN 0-476-00182-X. Auckland: Danger Publishing, 2004. 138 pp.
Robinsonade:
The Dream (7/8-8/10/96)
Tango Summer:
Bookmarks (10-24/11/98)
The Great New Zealand Vortex:
Inconsequential (12/7/81)
The Great New Zealand Vortex (26/2-10/5/97)
Tahiti in 1978:
Flying the moon (11-17/9/2000)
Brought up on Homeric platitudes (30/8-14/9/2000)
I is someone else (4-17/9/2000)
Femme d’aujourd’hui (4-17/9/2000)
A Strange Day at the Language School:
Life Support (30/12/97-14/1/99)
[2005 ]:
A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy . ISBN 0-473-10526-8. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005. 52 pp.
Letter (to Gabriel White) (12/4/02)
Saturday, January 19 –
Mysore
Timekeeper to the nation (22/1/02)
Black eyebrows nose (22/1/02)
Wednesday, January 23 –
Bangalore
Soon to be full six (24/1/02)
Self-conscious in a chair (24/1/02)
Sunday, January 27 –
Pondicherry
Long live classical divine Tamil (26/1/02)
As crêpes they’re crap (26/1/02)
Tuesday, January 29 –
Thanjavur
Always in a crowd (28/1/02)
Put that pen away (28/1/02)
Wednesday, January 30 –
Madurai
Once is never enough (31/1/02)
Not knowing where we’re going (31/1/02)
Police Report
Kodaikanal
Van Allen Hospital (2/2/02)
Black cow lies in the road (2/2/02)
Sunday, February 3 –
Kodai / Kanyakumari
Is this going to stay (3/2/02)
They like to see me writing (3/2/02)
Monday, February 4 –
Cape Comorin
The deer doesn’t enter (4/2/02)
He is not a man (4/2/02)
Tuesday, February 5 –
Trivandrum
They can make anything (5/2/02)
Haunted eyes (5/2/02)
Wednesday, February 6 –
Kathakali
A lot of action (6/2/02)
This is my first (6/2/02)
Thursday, February 7 –
Varkala
Meine Damen und Herren (7/2/02)
The tank’s refilled (7/2/02)
Friday, February 8 –
Quilon / Alleppey
No-time the expanse (8/2/02)
Helping the Down Trodden (8/2/02)
Saturday, February 9 –
Fort Cochin
Harbour full of islands (9/2/02)
How do you like Kochi? (9/2/02)
Monday, February 11 –
Ernakulam
Human contact (10/2/02)
Do I exaggerate? (10/2/02)
Tuesday, February 12 –
Kochi / Bangalore
Light on the tracks (13/2/02)
One’s the buffoon (13/2/02)
Wednesday, February 13 –
Bangalore / Panjim
The hooded horror (14/2/02)
Sophie Marceau (14/2/02)
Friday, February 15 –
Panjim
Fishermen (15/2/02)
Inside the cabin (15/2/02)
Saturday, February 16 –
North Goa
I’ve caught up with myself (16/2/02)
Palolem Vagatur (16/2/02)
Monday, February 18 –
Madgaon
Is it the moment? (18/2/02)
Ahead of myself (18/2/02)
Tuesday, February 19 –
Madgaon / Bombay
White herons taking flight (21/2/02)
Life must go on (21/2/02)
Thursday, February 21 –
Bombay
That is the biggest (22/2/02)
I can laugh about it now (22/2/02)
Friday, February 22 –
Auckland
New construction Amcare (25/2/02)
An alien species (25/2/02)
A B C (5/4/02)
[2006 ]:
from The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis . R.E.M. Trilogy 2. ISBN 0-9582586-8-6. Auckland: Titus Books, 2006. 164 pp.
Ithaka (after C. P. Cavafy) (30/8-12/10/04)
Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
O Canada! (30-31/7/03)
Cruisy morning, eh? (8-19/8/03)
Tentacles of Destruction (14 & 20-27/5/04)
Asbestos Hands of Dr. J. (7/10/04-26/1/06)
We were Soldiers (20-21/4/02)
Castor Bay (17-24/2/06)
DEATH & BEYOND (2-5/6/03)
Refrigerium (20-22/1/06)
Birkenhead (21-22/11/03)
A Sunday Walk (13-31/7/03)
Such Manners (21-23/12/05)
First Night (20-21/4/02)
Cycle Couriers in Freyberg Place (17-25/2/06)
This DVD contains everything you ever wanted to know … (13-15/9/05)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (27-28/5/03)
Every girl’s a babe (6-10/9/05)
Newmarket (30/6-22/7/03)
Unsuccessful Applicant for Neighbourhood Watch (29/9/05)
Coromandel (26-28/7/03)
Blinds (28/2-11/3/06)
Love in Wartime . Wellington: Pania Press, 2006. 20 pp.
Carl sniffed (12/1-8/3/03)
Porphyry skyline (26/2-1/3/03)
Rhinoceros (13/2-1/3/03)
Entering the world again (11/1-2/3/03)
SEX is natural (8-10/3/03)
Bright Flowers (10-11/3/03)
You just don’t have the sympathy (10/2-1/3/03)
Stops when you watch it (17/8/02-6/3/03)
The Miracle (4-13/8/06)
[2007 ]:
To Terezín . Poems & Travelogue by Jack Ross, with an Afterword by Martin Edmond. Social and Cultural Studies, 8. ISSN 1175-7132. Auckland: Massey University, 2007. 92 pp.
Preface (3/07)
I – New Europe (21/3-3/4/05):
Auckland – Bangkok – Frankfurt (21/3-3/4/05)
Farrell said … (21-22/3/05)
Planet … (10/12/04-1/4/05)
The Apartment (29/3-3/4/05)
John on Prague (26/12/04)
Jana’s Note (15/12/04)
England … (23/3/05)
A legless woman … (13/12-23/3/05)
Matchboxes (22-23/3/05)
Gypsies … (21/12/04-3/4/05)
The Resistance (21/12/04-3/4/05)
Voyeur (21/12/04-5/4/05)
John on computer dating (15/12/04-23/3/05)
Hospitality (31/3-1/4/05)
First Attempt (22-23/3/05)
The Ossuary – Das Beinhaus in Sedlec (18/12/04-23/3/05)
Second Attempt (22-23/3/05)
Black Light Theatre (22/3-2/4/05)
We walked across … (28/12/04)
Composed … (28/12/04)
Signs (28/12/04)
Terezín Memorial (28/12/04)
Ghetto Museum (28/12/04)
Creepsville (28/12/04)
One Day to Go (28/12/04)
Prisoner of Paradise (22-23/3/05)
Prague Novel (29/12/04-31/3/05)
Frankfurt (31/1-31/3/05)
II – The Golem (3-22/4/05):
They’ve (20-22/4/05)
1 – Heteronyms
If (29/3-3/4/05)
2 – Matchboxes
Trying to Write (24/2-22/4/05)
3 – How to be Alone
Tension (11/7/04-21/4/05)
4 – The Original
Our Lady (1/10/04-21/4/05)
5 – Europe after the Rains
No (25-26/2/05)
6 – Nine Great Reasons to Visit Prague
Your Past Life Ghosts (27/10/04)
7 – Feet of Clay
Works cited
Papyri: Love poems & fragments from Sappho & elsewhere . ISBN 978-0-473-12397-0. Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2007. 24 pp.
When you walked in … (13/1-27/2/07)
The Villa of the Papyri (30/3-2/4/07)
Sappho to Anaktoria (4/8-2/10/06)
Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem (4/2/07)
Ode to Aphrodite (4/2-28/2/07)
Life among the Surrealists (21-26/11/06; 4/2/07)
Atthis (13/1-9/2/07)
Mnasidika (13/1-11/2/07)
Fragments (22-24/2/07)
I love magnificence … (13/1-22/2/07)
Dying is bad … (4/8/06-22/2/07)
The Moon’s set … (13/1-22/2/07)
This pretty baby is mine … (13/1-24/2/07)
Mum, I can’t thread … (13/1-24/2/07)
Last night you slept on the breast … (13/1-24/2/07)
We love to hear … (24/2/07)
To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry (13/1-12/2/07)
Juicy Root (13/1-27/2/07)
Virgin (13/1-27/2/07)
Sappho’s Epithalamion (13/1-10/3/07)
[2008 ]:
from E M O . R.E.M. Trilogy 3. ISBN 978-1-877441-07-3. Auckland: Titus Books, 2008. 264 pp.
EVA AVE:
E M O
Welcome (5/6-14/7/05)
Inheritor (10/4-14/7/05)
Metaphors of The 1001 Nights (30/6/95-2/8/03)
Moons of Mars:
Burmese Days (20-23/3/03)
Trois filles de leur mère (24/11-2/12/01)
Free Love (20/11/04-25/4/05)
Marriage (14-26/8/99)
The Stranger (14-17/8/99)
Ovid in Otherworld:
Tristia 3.2 (12/7-15/8/06)
Tristia 3.3 (13/7-27/8/06)
Tristia 3.8 (18/7-27/8/06)
Tristia 3.10 (11/7-27/8/06)
Tristia 3.12 (13/7-27/8/06)
Tristia 3.13 (13/7-27/8/06)
Tristia 5.7 (13/7-28/8/06)
Tristia 5.10 (13/7-28/8/06)
Tristia 5.12 (13/7-28/8/06)
Epistulae 1.2 (14/7-29/8/06)
Sleep Threshold – Hypnagogia (15-29/6/06)
Epistulae 4.7 (14/7-30/8/06)
Epistulae 4.10 (14/7-30/8/06)
Epistulae 4.14 (14/7-30/8/06)
Fasti V: 421-44 (27-28/9/06)
Jack's Metamorphoses:
Monkey (10/8/07)
[2009 ]:
31 Days (2009)
April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
Hiding the Lunch (2/4-6/8/09)
One More Thing (3/4 & 8/9/09-22/7/10)
Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
“The archaeologist of the present day” (5/4-18/6//09)
Three fits (6/4-16/7/10)
Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
Foundry (8/4-20/9/09)
Toys (China, 1908) (9/4-18/6/09)
Legacy (10/4-15/11/09-24/1/11)
New Zealand’s Next Top Model Speaks (11/4-18/6/09)
Substitutes only need apply (12/4-18/6/09)
Memoirs from beyond the grave (13/4-15/11/09)
Two Falls (14/4-15/11/09-16/1/11)
Badges (15/4-15/11/09)
Vampires (16/4/09, 8/9/09, 4/5/10-12/7/10)
Not everyone can get an 'A' (17/4-15/11/09-5/7/11)
Dire Straits (18/4-15/11/09-18/1/11)
“Concern for Tony Veitch’s safety” (19/4/09)
Orpheish (20/4-13/8/09)
The Dada Lady of the Sonnets (21-23/4/09)
The Assassination Weapon (22/4-18/6/09)
The Darkness (23/4-18/6/09)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (24/4-15/11/09)
Anzac Day (25/4-18/6/09)
Argo (26/4-18/6/09)
Class Discourse (27/4-15/11/09-2/1/12)
The Double (28/4-20/9/09-8/1/11)
Before the Storm (29/4-15/11/09)
Advice on Essay-writing (30/4-20/9/09-29/7/11)
Mayday (1/5-18/6/09)
The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander . ISBN 978-0-9864507-6-1. Dunedin: Kilmog Books, 2009. 20 pp.
I ♥ NZ (11/2/99)
NZ Golf (and English) Academy (31/12/98)
Boi-Boi on Karaoke (29/12/98)
Language School Picnic (28/3/98)
Journey to the West
Evening (18/6-20/9/98)
Clouds (18/6-9/9/98)
Countdown (18/6-9/9/98)
Index (27/12/01- 4/3/02)
Mysteries: A Christmas Poem
The stones have eyes …. (6/10-29/11/03)
Brought down … (10-29/11/03)
There is no same word … (2/9-29/11/03)
In the Days of The Lord of the Rings (20-27/11/02)
A Question of Faith (22-26/3/03)
Bonfire Gothic
Dogshit at a distance (12/1-5/2/03)
Diaphanous sails (30/1-5/2/03)
[2010 ]:
from Kingdom of Alt . Short Stories & a Novella. ISBN 978-1-877441-15-8. Auckland: Titus Books, 2010. 244 pp.
Haiku Diary:
Haiku 1-12 (4-18/3/04)
Tanka 1-2 (18/3/04)
Time to Kill (29/3/04)
Tanka 3-4 (1/4/04)
Haiku 13 (18/4/01)
The Purloined Letter:
Spleen (8/2/96)
Before the Disaster:
Just because you’re rich doesn’t make you gay (30/11/07-6/2/08)
30 at the roadworks = 50 (30/11/07-6/2/08)
Les montagnes sont des bâtiments (30/10/06-3/12/07)
Give Blood (26/1-7/2/08)
3 Sisters (26/1-7/2/08)
Coursebook found in a Warzone:
U.P.: up (2/7-21/10/08)
Dream Poem 1: Stalin’s Raven (4/10/89-18/12/06)
Dream Poem 2: Party in the SCR (20/10/89-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 3: Book-Sale (24/10/89-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 4: A Glastonbury Romance (25/10/89-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 5: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (27/1/90-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 6: Claire’s Dream (21/5/90-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 7: Malcolm O (22/5/90-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 8: Ugolino (24/7/91-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 9: The War (18/1/94-18/12/06)
Dream Poem 10: Finland (31/5/94-5/2/09)
Dream Poem 11: Lion’s Head (19/6/95-18/12/06)
[2011 ]:
Tree Worship: 2011-2012 . Tree Worship (6/1/2011-14/8/2012).
The Great Wall of China (6/1/11)
The Double (28/4-20/9/09-8/1/11)
Tree Worship (20/12/10-12/1/11)
Self / Counterself (3/12/10-13/1/11)
Vastation (1/11/10-15/1/11)
Two Falls (14/4-15/11/09-16/1/11)
Featherston (1-17/1/11)
Dire Straits (18/4-15/11/09-18/1/11)
Featherstone (3-22/1/11)
Legacy (10/4-15/11/09-24/1/11)
Concepts Cross in Mist (7/3/11)
Not everyone can get an 'A' (17/4-15/11/09-5/7/11)
Marooned (6-26/7/11)
Advice on Essay-writing (30/4-20/9/09-29/7/11)
Ghost Stories (7/12/11-1/1/12)
Class Discourse (27/4-15/11/09-2/1/12)
Research Assumptions (3/1/12)
Pity what you can’t change (20/10/11-9/1/12)
Featherston Tales (12-22/1/12)
I can’t even tell (16-17/8/11-22-23/1/12)
Cairo the Victorious (6-13/5/12)
Feb 4. Disappointment (26/4-13-14/5/12)
Trans-Tasman Relations (11-16/5/12)
Life in the Tararuas (26/4-18/5/12)
Coral Burrows (6/10/11-22/5/12)
Delphi (27/4-23/5/12)
Mercator’s Projections (12-13/8/11-1/6/12)
Forest & Demarcation Zone (21/9-6/10/11-6/6/12)
Mercator & Nostradamus (12-13/8/11-9/6/12)
Family Portrait (22/9-11/10/11-13/6/12)
Time-slips (14/8/11-20/6/12)
Never give up (14/7-1/8/11-27/6/12)
End of Term (12/8/12)
Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia . Text by Jack Ross / Artwork by William T. Ayton. ISBN 978-0-473-18881-8. Rhinebeck, NY: Narcissus Press, 2011. 44 pp.
Prologue (2008-11)
I – Iphigenia , or Happy Families
Chorus 1 - Cursed with prophecy (15-19/4/08)
Scene 1 (a): The Palace at Mycenae (2008-11)
Chorus 2 - I ran through the wood (19/4/08)
Scene 1 (b): The Palace (cont.)
Chorus 3 - Little girl lost (1/4/06-19/4/08)
II – Cassandra , or Payback is a Bitch
Chorus 4 - Joy lives with those (19-25/4/08)
Scene 2 (a): The Palace at Mycenae (2008-10)
Chorus 5 - Cursed with second sight (19/4/08)
Scene 2 (b): The Palace (cont.)
Chorus 6 - See how Apollo (22/4/08)
III – Orestes , or Never say Never
Chorus 7 - The labour pains (22/4/08)
Scene 3 (a): The Seashore at Tauris (2008-11)
Chorus 8 - There she goes (19-25/4/08)
Scene 3 (b): The Seashore (cont.)
Chorus 9 - Drops of holy water (30/4-12/5/08)
Epilogue (2008-11)
Chorus 10 - Noise is like flame (29-30/4/08)
[2012 ]:
Fallen Empire : Three Play-Fragments from the Literary Remains of The Society of Inner Light . Attributed to Bertolt Wegener. Edited by Jack Ross. Illustrations by Karl Chitham. Museum of True History. Dunedin: Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2012. 46 pp.
Introduction (19-20/5/11-9/1/12)
Maui in the Underworld [Synopsis ]
Opening Chorus - Tell me Muses (6-7/1/12)
Scenes
Final Chorus - You can’t strike (7-9/1/12)
Kupe and the Fountain of Youth [Synopsis ]
Opening Chorus - He who sailed the deep (6-9/1/12)
Scenes
Final Chorus - My friend I held so dear (6-9/1/12)
Hatupatu and the Nile-monster [Synopsis ]
Opening Chorus - Hatupatu (6-9/1/12)
Scenes
Final Chorus - May he cross (7-9/1/12)
Celanie: Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan . Poems by Jack Ross, Drawings by Emma Smith, with an Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd. ISBN 978-0-473-22484-4. Pania Samplers, 3. Auckland: Pania Press, 2012. 168 pp.
I: STEHEN [1952-1965] :
Maïa [7/1/52] [5 ] (9/3-11/4/10)
The Sun’s [1952] [22 ] (9/3-29/4/10)
I heard [Autumn 1952] [23 ] (9/3-2/11/10)
Already [30/3/54] [37 ] (9/3-11/4/10)
Islandward [22/6/54] [42 ] (5/3-11/4/10)
The Beach at Toulinget [Autumn ’54] [43 ] (9/3-25/4/10)
You [20/11/54] [44 ] (5/3-10/4/10)
So [7/4/55] [58 ] (9/3-29/4/10)
Matter of Britain [13/8/57] [83 ] (9/3-29/4/10)
The word [5/3/59 – 21/11/65] [106 / 302 ] (9/3-29/4/10)
Heart (for René Char) [6/1/60] [114 ] (9/3-11/4/10)
Hard [15/12/60] [130 ] (27/3-23/5/10)
A Thieves’ and Beggars’ Ballad [2/61] [133 ] (27/1-7/8/11)
The bright [5/11/61] [138 ] (5/3-9/6/10)
The buzzard’s [21/10/62 – 19/3/63] [153 / 175 ] (9/3/10-27/1-6/8/11)
This [3/11/62] [158 ] (5/3/10-7/8/11)
Thinking [24/10/63] [176 ] (27/1-9/8/11)
Hourglass [4/6/64] [184 ] (5/3/10-27/1-9/8/11)
Those [January 1965] [212 ] (27/1-12/8/11)
& our son [6/5/65] [221 ] (27/1-12/8/11)
A roar [7/5/65] [222 ] (27/1-12/8/11)
Souvenir of D. [10/5/65] [231 ] (27/1-14/8/11)
Give the Word [14/5/65] [236 ] (5/3/10-27/1-14/8/11)
Bowls [9/5/65] [236 ] (9/3/10-27/1-14/8/11)
Banners [4/8/65] [253 ] (27/1-14/8/11)
Rest [18/8/65] [264 ] (27/1-17/8/11)
Come [7/9/65] [275 ] (25/9/11)
Chance [24/9/65] [282 ] (27/1-17/8/11)
The ounce [25/10/65] [296 ] (5/3/10-27/1-17/8/11)
Noisy [26/10/65] [300 ] (27/1-23/8/11)
II: IMMER [1966] :
Depths [25/2-2/3/66] [359 ] (5/3/10-27/1-23/8/11)
Molten gold [28/2/66] [359 ] (27/1-23/8/11)
Hewed stone [17/3/66] [373 ] (5/3/10-27/1-6/10/11)
Suffocating [20/3/66] [376 ] (27/1-24/8/11)
Spiky [21/3/66] [379 ] (27/1-24/8/11)
Underrun [26/3/66] [382 ] (27/1-26/8/11)
Shame [26/3/66] [383 ] (17/1/10-27/1-26/8/11)
Above our heads [28/3/66] [386 ] (5/3-25/4/10)
Are [28/3/66] [386 ] (5/3-25/4/10)
Dauntless [29/3/66] [388 ] (5/3/10-28/1-26/8/11)
After abandoning [30/3/66] [389 ] (28/1-31/8/11)
Irruption [31/3/66] [391 ] (28/1-31/8/11)
True as a scar [26/3/66] [396 ] (5/3/10-28/1-31/8/11)
Thoughtless [4/4/66] [398 ] (28/1-31/8/11)
Rope [6/4 – 17/4/66] [401 / 408 ] (28/1-1/9/11)
By ice fire [7/4/66] [402 ] (28/1-4/9/11)
Forced to come down [7/4/66] [403 ] (4/5/10-28/1-4/9/11)
& if [8/4/66] [404 ] (28/1-4/9/11)
Torchsong [9/4/66] [405 ] (28/1-6/9/11)
Mit uns [16/4/66] [409 ] (28/1-6/9/11)
Wilderness [22/4/66] [412 ] (5/3/10-28/1-7/9/11)
I’m writing down [23/4/66] [415 ] (5/3-25/4/10)
Sacrificial troughs [27/4/66] [421 ] (28/1-9/9/11)
Devastations? [1/5/66] [424 ] (11-3/10-28/1-9/9/11)
Whistled up [2/5/66] [428 ] (11/3/10-28/1-10/9/11)
My Dear [2/5/66] [429 ] (28/1-10/9/11)
Bouts of sleep [13/6/66] [455 ] (28/1-10/9/11)
III: LE PONT DES ANNÉES [1967-1969] :
Arrow-sister [24/5/67] [508 ] (28/1-12/9/11)
Paired, by the Brâncuşi [4/8/67] [540 ] (28/1-12/9/11)
Tow-barge [3/12/67] [595 ] (28/1-13/9/11)
Lilac air [23/12/67] [595 ] (28/1-13/9/11)
Gravediggers [25/12/67] [595 ] (28/1-13/9/11)
Year opening [2/1/68] [595 ] (28/1-13/9/11)
This world’s [5/1/68] [595 ] (28/1-13/9/11)
What’s stitched [10/1/68] [597 ] (28/1-14/9/11)
[Black Toll ]:
[i] Relics of hearing [9/6/67] [599 ] (27/3/10-28/1-16/9/11)
[ii] Night rode him [9-10-11/6-10/9/67] [599 ] (27/3/10-28/1-16/9/11)
[iii] Shoals of mussels [14/6/67] [599 ] (27/3/10-28/1-17/9/11)
[iv] Weighed [15/6/67] [599 ] (27/3/10-28/1-17/9/11)
[v] Studded [16/6/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
[vi] Gone [20/6/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
[vii] Already we lay [24/6/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
[viii] Mines [27-28/6/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
[ix] Who [1/7/67] [599 ] (11/3-11/4/10)
[x] Loaded [5/7/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
[xi] Green light [8/7/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
[xii] Beacon- [8/7/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
[xiii] Adjusted [17/7/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
[xiv] That [17/7/67] [599 ] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
Creeping weed [25/2/69] [639 ] (11/3/10-28/1-20/9/11)
Hateful moons [21/3/69] [642 ] (11/3/10-1/2-20/9/11)
In [29/3/69] [643 ] (11/3-25/4/10)
Kew Gardens [6/4/69] [648 ] (11/3-25/4/10)
Gold [12/4/69] [649 ] (27/3/10-28/1-20/9/11)
The world [21/4/69] [651 ] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
I see you [4-5/5/69] [653 ] (11/3-25/4/10)
Above [9/5/69] [654 ] (11/3-25/4/10)
There [13/12/69] [670 ] (11/3-11/4/10)
Poser [1967]:
Leave [676 ] (8/2-25/4/10)
Textual Notes
[2013 ]:
Jueju (2013)
Transcultural Imaginaries (for Yang Lian) (18-23/6/13)
Make-Up (after Wen Tingyun) (6/9-1/10/13)
On City Streets (after Wang Anshi) (6/9-30/10/13)
Hunting in Palmerston (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
40 Bogan Anthems (after Axl Rose) (24/8-5/9/13)
Red Cliffs (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
Returning to Auckland after Dark (after Su Shi) (6/9-1/10/13)
Inferno 13 (after Dante Alighieri) (31/8-1/10/13)
Spring Morning (after Li Qing Zhao) (6/9-1/10/13)
Rural Life (after Xin Qi Ji) (6/9-1/10/13)
Thinking of My Father (after Liu Ke Zhang) (6/9-17/10/13)
[2014 ]:
A Clearer View of the Hinterland: Poems & Sequences 1981-2014 . ISBN: 978-0-473-29640-7. Wellington: HeadworX, 2014. ii + 190 pp.
Tanera Beag (3/6/81)
Antipodes (1998)
Midsummer Xmas (22/12/97)
Strange Meeting (3/1/98)
Morning Swim (11/1/98)
Commuter (5/1/98)
Except Once (17/3/98)
from Travel Sonnets (1998)
Reading U. K. Le Guin (27/1/98)
Simple (3/2/98)
Rental (8/2/98)
After Supervielle & Apollinaire (2/98)
A Clearer View of the Hinterland (7-10/7/98)
God’s Spy (1998)
Cover (20/2/98)
Code (6/3/98)
Stories (5/3/98)
Safe House (23/12/96)
Signs (27/4/98)
The Opposition (31/4/98)
Inside (31/4/98)
Blown (20/5/98)
Withdrawal Symptoms (26/1/99-24/6/2000)
Out Being Alienated (1999)
Came here the other night for a sticky (20/5/99)
The perfect mixer for the perfect city
Viaduct Basin (20/5/99)
Whiplash (18/6/99)
The Street-Vendor (10/6/99)
Be honest (20/5/99)
Give me a reason to boogie down (22/6/99)
The perpetual time of never coming back (21/6/99)
Auckland Girl (9/2/99)
The Britney Suite (2000)
Paul Celan, SCHNEEPART, gebäumt, bis zuletzt … [22/1/68]
Wendy Nu, keith partridge y yo (6/9-21/10/2000)
Paul Celan, ERZFLITTER, tief im … [20/7/68]
Who is Wendy Nu? (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
Nouvelle vague (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
Paul Celan, KALK-KROKUS, im … [24/8/68]
Letter (6/9-21/10/2000)
Wendy Nu, mr darling writes to penthouse forum (6/9-21/10/2000)
Paul Celan, DAS GEDUNKELTE Splitterecho … [5/9/68]
It’s always too late … (4-16/11/2000)
Paul Celan, BEIDHÄNDIGE Frühe … [29/9/69]
After Apollinaire (10/3/99)
from Tiger Country (2001)
Tiger Country (21 & 28-29/3/02)
Dumb (15/7/97-22/11/98-29/10/01)
Civil War (30/1/01)
Disorder and Early Sorrow (26/6-22/10/01)
[your name here] (6-9/12/01)
Quasimodo’s Last Poem (7/9/99-18/2/2000)
Seven Levels of the Waterfall (2002)
Letter (to Lien Stevens) (12/1/02)
Trekking
Hill Country
Ban Rim Lai (6/1/02)
Chiang Rai (6/1/02)
In the Opium Museum
Golden Triangle
Mekong Sunset (7/1/02)
Lao-Burmese Border (7/1/02)
On the Frontier
Air-con Bus
Chris (8/1/02)
Daniella (8/1/02)
The Débâcle
Ayutthaya
Victory Chedi of Naresuan the Great (9/1/02)
The Squirrel (9/1/02)
To the River Kwai
Rafthouse
Wat Tam Sua (10/1/02)
Khun Phen (10/1/02)
Erawan
Erewhon
No Fear (11/1/02)
‘Show a little compassion, guys’ (11/1/02)
The Massage Parlour
Bangkok
The Golden Mountain (12/1/02)
Eurotrash (12/1/02)
Stone Pine Lavender (15/12-19/12/2000)
The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander (2003)
I ♥ NZ (11/2/99)
NZ Golf (and English) Academy (31/12/98)
Boi-Boi on Karaoke (29/12/98)
Language School Picnic (28/3/98)
Journey to the West
Evening (18/6-20/9/98)
Clouds (18/6-9/9/98)
Countdown (18/6-9/9/98)
Index (27/12/01- 4/3/02)
Mysteries: A Christmas Poem
The stones have eyes … (6/10-29/11/03)
Brought down … (10-29/11/03)
There is no same word … (2/9-29/11/03)
In the Days of The Lord of the Rings (20-27/11/02)
A Question of Faith (22-26/3/03)
Bonfire Gothic
Dogshit at a distance (12/1-5/2/03)
Diaphanous sails (30/1-5/2/03)
Samsara – Breaking through (10-23/1/03)
Love in Wartime (2003)
Carl sniffed (12/1-8/3/03)
Porphyry skyline (26/2-1/3/03)
Rhinoceros (13/2-1/3/03)
Entering the world again (11/1-2/3/03)
SEX is natural (8-10/3/03)
Bright Flowers (10-11/3/03)
You just don’t have the sympathy (10/2-1/3/03)
Stops when you watch it (17/8/02-6/3/03)
The Miracle (4-13/8/06)
[with David Howard] Three Sisters (after René Char) (9-12/4/04)
blue pharos love
in the urn of the second
twosies
shoulder your children
Zen and the Art of America’s Next Top Model (17-24/2/06)
from Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
O Canada! (30-31/7/03)
Tentacles of Destruction (14 & 20-27/5/04)
Asbestos Hands of Dr. J. (7/10/04-26/1/06)
DEATH & BEYOND (2-5/6/03)
Refrigerium (20-22/1/06)
Birkenhead (21-22/11/03)
A Sunday Walk (13-31/7/03)
This DVD contains everything you ever wanted to know … (13-15/9/05)
Newmarket (30/6-22/7/03)
Unsuccessful Applicant for Neighbourhood Watch (29/9/05)
Coromandel (26-28/7/03)
Blinds (28/2-11/3/06)
Zero at the Bone (12-15/3/08)
Papyri: Love Poems & Fragments from Sappho & Elsewhere (2007)
When you walked in … (13/1-27/2/07)
The Villa of the Papyri (30/3-2/4/07)
Sappho to Anaktoria (4/8-2/10/06)
Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem (4/2/07)
Ode to Aphrodite (4/2-28/2/07)
Life among the Surrealists (21-26/11/06; 4/2/07)
Atthis (13/1-9/2/07)
Mnasidika (13/1-11/2/07)
Fragments (22-24/2/07)
I love magnificence … (13/1-22/2/07)
Dying is bad … (4/8/06-22/2/07)
The Moon’s set … (13/1-22/2/07)
This pretty baby is mine … (13/1-24/2/07)
Mum, I can’t thread … (13/1-24/2/07)
Last night you slept on the breast … (13/1-24/2/07)
We love to hear … (24/2/07)
To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry (13/1-12/2/07)
Juicy Root (13/1-27/2/07)
Virgin (13/1-27/2/07)
Sappho’s Epithalamion (13/1-10/3/07)
Eel (after Montale) (25-29/4/08)
from 31 Days (2009)
April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
Hiding the Lunch (2/4-6/8/09)
“The archaeologist of the present day” (5/4-18/6//09)
Three fits (6/4-16/7/10)
New Zealand’s Next Top Model Speaks (11/4-18/6/09)
Substitutes only need apply (12/4-18/6/09)
The Assassination Weapon (22/4-18/6/09)
The Darkness (23/4-18/6/09)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (24/4-15/11/09)
Mayday (1/5-18/6/09)
Last Conference before Passchendaele (24/12/09-8/2/10)
The Jay Poems (2012)
Jay & the Mail-Order Bride (25/1-3/2/12)
Jay as Line-Manager (2/11/11-3/2/12)
Jay & the Great Storm (2-3/2/12)
Jay Addresses the Troops (16-25/3/12)
Jay & The Economics of Happiness (5-25/3/12)
Jay on a Friday Night (28/3-25/4/12)
Jay’s Fear of Retirement (29/3-25/4/12)
Jay at the Pataphysics Conference (29/3-22/4/12)
Jay Finds a ’40s Photograph (21-29/9/12)
Jay on Fate (11/12/12-17/1/13)
Jay at the Glowworm Caves (11/12/12-10/1/13)
Jay Checks His Father into a Home (11/12/12-10/1/13)
Jay Gets His Hair Cut at the Mall (13/12/12-10/1/13)
Lounge Room Tribalism (21/1-8/2/11)
from Jueju (2013)
Transcultural Imaginaries (for Yang Lian) (18-23/6/13)
Make-Up (after Wen Tingyun) (6/9-1/10/13)
On City Streets (after Wang Anshi) (6/9-30/10/13)
40 Bogan Anthems (after Axl Rose) (24/8-5/9/13)
Inferno 13 (after Dante Alighieri) (31/8-1/10/13)
Thinking of My Father (after Liu Ke Zhang) (6/9-17/10/13)
12-12-12 (after Dante, Inferno 1: ll. 1-30) (11-18/12/12)
The Other Side (21-29/3/13)
1914 – The Elberfeld Horses (21-23/3/13)
1966 – The Unknown Guest (21-24/3/13)
2013 – Rare and Obscure (21-24/3/13)
Howard (5-6/1/14)
Leaving Town (10-12/12/13)
[2016 ]:
Family Plot (2016)
Oral exam, 1990 (1/1-21/8/16)
A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
Drying Out the Bach (3/1/16-1/1/17)
Very superstitious (4/1-21/8/16)
Indexing Poetry NZ (5/1-29/8/16)
Oh br/other! (6/1/16-13/7/17)
Psych 101 (7/1/16-4/1/17)
The perils of public art (8/1/16-7/5/17)
Rituals (9/1/16-7/5/17)
Family skeletons (10/1/16-7/5/17)
Self-analysis (11/1/16-7/5/17)
Bowie at Slane (12/1/16-13/7/17)
A boy was drowned (13/1/16-13/7/17)
Communications committee (14/1-4/12/16)
Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
This morning Sylvie (16/1/16-7/5/17)
3,000 unopened emails (17/1/16-22/10/17)
Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
Gettysburg (20/1/16-22/10/17)
Turning at the doorstep (21/1/16-19/10/17)
Faith Hill (22/1/16-3/9/21)
Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
We used some (24/1/16-22/10/17)
Trump said (25/1/16-20/1/17)
The new laptop (26/1/16-7/5/17)
Everything ages too fast (27/1/16-7/5/17)
Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
Playing the long game (29/1-7/5/17)
Are Kiwi women (30/1-29/10/16)
Checking into Facebook (31/1-5/12/16)
[2017 ]:
Dianne Firth: Poetry and Place: Catalogue for the Poetry and Place Exhibition, Belconnen Art Centre, 25 August – 17 September 2017 . ISBN 978-1-74088-460-0. Canberra: University of Canberra, 2017: 10.
1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
1948 (25/3-4/12/16)
1984 (24/3-4/12/16)
2016 (16/9-4/12/16)
Poetry Specials (2008-2024) . Papyri (28/12/2017)
Minotaur (15-18/12/97 & 19/2/98)
Je donne à mon espoir (10/3/99)
Volcanic Glass (3-13/3/08)
Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
Lounge Room Tribalism (21/1-8/2/11)
Britain's Missing Top Model (23-7/5/11)
Except Once (17/3/98)
Jay Checks His Father into a Home (11/12/12-10/1/13)
Ice Road Trucker (7/2-30/3/15)
Antigone (29/5/14; 18/4-13/6/15)
1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
Canberra Tales (24/3-4/12/16)
Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
Malinche Dreams (6/7-19/10/17)
Scurvy Grass (6/2-22/7/21)
BECN (9/12/22-5/7/23)
Unpopular Mechanics: Crossing Auckland for Emma Smith (7-9/9/24)
[2018 ]:
Collage Poems: 1997-2005 . Papyri (31/1/2018)
Jack's Metamorphoses (15/6/97-23/8/98)
Conversation Pieces (14/9/97-24/9/98)
Wharfbury Dogs (21/4/98)
Evenings in the Blackout (27/10-19/11/98)
Dieting. I'm Hungry too (21/12/99-5/5/2000)
In the Cave of Henry James (16/6 & 9/7-28/7/2000)
Ancestral Voices (9/88-14/3/01)
Satan's School for Girls (30/5-26/7/02)
Anamorphoses (22/4-4/10/02)
Postcards (13/11/02-21/5/03)
Servants of the Wankh (23/12/02-24/1/03)
Suburban Apocalypse (13/6/01-7/11/04)
Days Under Water (27/11/01-24/4/04)
Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (27/11 & 12/12/03-14/3/04)
Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) (11/1-18/2/05; 13/5/05)
[2019 ]:
from Ghost Stories . 978-0-9951165-5-9. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing, 2019. 140 pp.
Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World:
3 Mayan Poems:
Lacandon-Maya Poem (6/3-23/3/13)
Tzotzil-Maya Prayer (6/3-23/3/13)
Yucatán-Maya Hunting Song (6/3-23/3/13)
The Cross-Correspondences:
Chinese girl students (19/6/18-26/1/19)
The waiter who’s brought (26/11/18-26/1/19)
[2021 ]:
The Oceanic Feeling . Drawings by Katharina Jaeger. Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd. ISBN 978-0-473-55801-7. Auckland: Salt & Greyboy Press, 2021. 72 pp.
The Oceanic Feeling (7/1-18/10/17)
Family Plot
Lone pine (14/1-5/12/14)
Family plot (26/6-12/8/15)
When you’re the only one (30/9-19/11/17)
Oh br/other! (6/1/16-13/7/17)
This morning Sylvie (16/1/16-7/5/17)
Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
What to do till the sentinels come (11-23/4/18)
Rituals (9/1/16-7/5/17)
My Uncle Tommy (15-23/4/18)
1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
Very superstitious (4/1-21/8/16)
Playing the long game (29/1/16-7/5/17)
Are Kiwi women (30/1-29/10/16)
Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
Family skeletons (10/1/16-7/5/17)
Self-analysis (11/1/16-7/5/17)
Checking into Facebook (31/1-5/12/16)
A borrowed life (30/9-2/10/17)
Psych 101 (7/1/16-4/1/17)
What do you want? (8/9-13/10/18)
Ice Road Trucker
Ice Road Trucker (7/2-30/3/15)
Two Fords (17/7-12/8/15)
Stranded Polar Bear (21/11-14/12/19)
Indexing Poetry NZ (5/1-29/8/16)
Turning at the doorstep (21/1/16-19/10/17)
The perils of public art (8/1/16-7/5/17)
Communications committee (14/1-4/12/16)
Oral exam, 1990 (1/1-21/8/16)
Everything ages too fast (27/1/16-7/5/17)
Restructuring (7/1-12/3/20)
Kissing the Blarney Stone (23/4-29/8/16)
Skins, 1981 (22/2-14/4/19)
Snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef (17-19/11/17)
Mark (21/6-12/8/15)
Reindeer games (27/12/17)
The Mysterious Island (18-26/4/15)
Antigone (29/5/14; 18/4-13/6/15)
Shorts :
Birds of Passage (12/11/14-7/2/15)
Auckland Anthem (30/3-15/4/12)
Hunting in Palmerston (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
Translations
On Early Trains (after Boris Pasternak) (26/1-7/2/15)
Bangalore 2002 (after Boris Pasternak) (30/12/14-7/2/15)
1913 (after Apollinaire) (21/6-12/8/15)
[2023 ]:
The Zero Suite: 2007-2023 . Papyri (2/5/2023)
Give blood (26/1-7/2/08)
Zero at the Bone (12-15/3/08)
April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
Returning to Auckland after Dark (6/9-1/10/13)
A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
What to do till the sentinels come (11-23/4/18)
All I want (2/9/22-8/4/23)
Catullus 101 (12/9/22-28/5/23)
___________
[691 poems]
•
Jack Ross: Showcase (2021)
Uncollected Poems
Poems: 1981-1999
Obsolete (December 1981)
The Shaman (January 1982)
The Present Tense (17/7/83-18/4/97)
The Late Romances: Pericles (8/6/86-7/1/2025)
Pierre de Ronsard - Cassandre (1989):
Gilt, rich in raiment, falling on my love (12/7/89)
It's quite a metaphor (imagine this (13/7/89)
Freed from Right Reason, turn'd to Passion's slave (14/7/89)
Epithalamion (28/4/90)
Tod und Verklärung (1991):
Snow is so soft and deep … (5/8/91)
May God help us … (9/8/91)
It will be generally admitted … (9/8/91)
Very soft shifting snow … (9/8/91)
Killing Time (1997):
Killing Time (10/9-18/11/96)
Nightingale Fever (1996-99):
Fever, nagging pain … (22/10/96-26/7/2000)
A million ways … (31/12/98)
I don’t have … (15/6/99)
Letter to Jackie-Anne (13/11/96-24/1/97)
Burn Old Diaries (30/11/96-27/6/2000)
Coda (15/12/96)
Waitakeres (28/6-9/11/97)
Unpardonable Sins (20/8-4/11/97)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (3/10-8/11/97)
Rough Day on the Gulf (10-19/11/97)
A Dash of Bitters (10-19/11/97)
The Mooring of Starting Out (27/11-6/12/97)
Midnight Mass (26/12/97)
When the Sea Goes Mad at Night (1999/2000):
Ashley Gorge (18-19/1/98)
Travel Sonnets (1998):
The Longest Day (22/12/98)
Orpheus in the Bays (5/8/97-27/2/98)
Some More of Your Friends from Nevada (28/3/98)
Elegy: Miriel Kyle (1/4/98)
Meditation Exercise (5/5/98)
La Fille que j’ai abandonnée (6/5-9/7/98)
Aeroplane Poems (3-10/7/98)
Tips on Stress from Seddonville (9/7/98)
City Face (9/7/98)
In the Ngakawau Gorge (9/7/98)
Henry Fool (17/7-13/10/98)
A Previously Uncollected Posthumous Work of Bukowski (24/7/98)
M.C. (22/8/98)
NZ Writing: the NeXt Wave (22/8/98)
The Old School after Twenty Years (12/10/98)
The Road to Oratia (7/11/98-26/2/2000)
A Patina of the Antique (1998-99):
Car Broken Down (4/12/98)
Lean's Zhivago (30/4/99)
The Information (4/12/98)
Like a Japanese Christmas Card (30/12/98)
Ohope at New Year (3/1/99)
An Appointment with Cortázar (6/2/99)
Christchurch Revisited (1999):
Festival of Romance (9/2/99)
Crossover Hits (9/2/99)
The Vicar of Okains Bay (9/2/99)
Last Morning (9/2/99)
Je donne à mon espoir (10/3/99)
The Imp of the Perverse (26/3/99)
APEC Weekend (30/7-4/8-14/9/99)
Poems: 2000-2004
from Tiger Country (2002)
Poetry Weekend (28/3/98)
Answers to Correspondence (11/3/99-10/3/01-26/10/01)
On this day I complete my 36th year (6/11/98-21/3/2000)
School (4/8/99)
Late-Nite Movie at Wairau Park (10/1-19/9/98)
Millennium Sermon (25/12/99-11/3/01)
Signs & Portents (27/6, 29/3, 20/6, 13/7, 7/6 & 29/5-1/8/2000)
Tron (6/4-17/5/01)
Slave 4 U (15/11-9/12/01)
Memories of Conan the Cimmerian (15/11-9/12/01)
Corrugated Garage-doors in Gore St. (25/1-16/10/01)
No-one gets on or off (12/2-18/5/01)
Going In (9/11-9/12/01)
Staying Out (9/11-9/12/01)
Intoit (12/11-8/12/01)
Subject: Urgent Assistance (7-9/9/02)
E (27/4-17/5/01)
Breast Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect Women (31/10-2/12/01)
Last Night at the Party (29/6-19/10/01)
Goodbye Love (10/1-22/3/01; 29/6/01; 9-11/9/01)
[with David Howard] A Photograph of the Poet (after Jorge Accamé) (4/2-13/2/2000)
The Kitset Love Poem (8-20/3/2000)
SH1 near Taupiri (19/10/2000)
vie littéraire (3/11/2000-29/3/01)
Tanlaw (16/12-19/12/2000)
from Messenger from Depth (2004):
Anguttara Nikaya (for Olivia Macassey) (25/12/01)
Invocation (27/12/01-19/4/02)
Quiet Days in Cliché (for Olwyn Stewart) (24/11/01-9/2/02)
Signs (15/1-25/5/02)
Bodily Rememberment (24/10-23/12/03)
from Hybrid Art (2002):
When Friendship Kills (1/8-26/8/2000)
Disco Inferno (4/3/99-26/8/2000)
South (2002):
The Swimming-Pool Wedding (16-18/3/02)
Twisted Pippie Café (17-18/3/02)
South (17-19/3/02)
The Inorganic Collection (1/5/02-1/3/04)
Murder One (26/10-6/11/02)
The Existential Dracula (12/1-9/3/03)
Shock and Awe (24-26/3/03)
Season of the remakes … (2-3/4/03)
Towards Banks Peninsula (2003):
The Summons (19/4-5/5/03)
Searching for the Original (24/4-1/5/03)
Hitler-Junge Quex (5-7/7/03)
Death of a Computer (5-7/7/03)
Where Will Massey Take You? (12-13/7/03)
Six Days in Kuaotunu (12-26/12/03)
Before Exodus – The Elders (after Karl Wolfskehl) (17-21/2/04)
The All-Star Travelling Gameshow (4-14/3/04)
Cinema of Unease (15/4/-14/5/04)
Reviewer (5-23/5/04)
Speaking of … (24-26/5/04)
Poems: 2005-2009
from Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
Cruisy morning, eh? (8-19/8/03)
We were Soldiers (20-21/4/02)
Castor Bay (17-24/2/06)
Such Manners (21-23/12/05)
First Night (20-21/4/02)
Cycle Couriers in Freyberg Place (17-25/2/06)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (27-28/5/03)
Every girl’s a babe (6-10/9/05)
Noughts and Crosses (17/12/04-7/2/05)
Sibylla (5/6-14/7/05)
Wang Po’s Preface to Poems from the Pavilion of the Prince of T’eng (16/10-4/11/05)
Funeral Sermon by the Shadow Spokesperson against PC (3-13/11/05)
As Long (7/4/06)
That hand (15-18/4/06)
Easter Ferry to Rakiura (24/4-20/5/06)
Eva (24/4-20/5/06)
Xmas (21-26/11/06)
Biggie Shark & Biggie Whale (14/2/07)
Genesis (15/1/-8/2/07)
Scripts (15/1/-8/2/07)
Paisley (15/1-8/2/07)
Kids at a Bus-stop (13/7-18/10/01)
Heroes: 3 Takes
Rita (19/7/07)
Kickstarting Your Research Career (7-20/6/07)
Miniatures (7/2; 8/11; 16/7-9/11/06)
Volcanic Glass (3-13/3/08)
Vainglory (3-13/3/08)
from 31 Days (2009)
One More Thing (3/4 & 8/9/09-22/7/10)
Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
Foundry (8/4-20/9/09)
Toys (China, 1908) (9/4-18/6/09)
Memoirs from beyond the grave (13/4-15/11/09)
Badges (15/4-15/11/09)
Vampires (16/4/09, 8/9/09, 4/5/10-12/7/10)
“Concern for Tony Veitch’s safety” (19/4/09)
Orpheish (20/4-13/8/09)
The Dada Lady of the Sonnets (21-23/4/09)
Anzac Day (25/4-18/6/09)
Argo (26/4-18/6/09)
Before the Storm (29/4-15/11/09)
Poems: 2010-2015
from Celanie (2010)
Lunch [after Lady Daibu & Lydia Ginzburg] (28/4-11/7/10)
Mr Lennon [after Charles Darwin] (3/5-11/7/10)
Maggie’s Farm [after Ian McEwan & Margaret Thatcher] (4/5-16/7/10)
Badlands [after Jonathan Raban] (22/4-16/7/10)
Hamilton Stations of the Cross (23/4-7/5/11)
Britain's Missing Top Model (23-7/5/11)
Shorts:
At the Magician's House (23/4-9/5/11)
Destructive Element (3/2-9/5/11)
Dollarton (8/2/11)
Petition (8/2-9/5/11)
Cook on Easter Island (12-16/5/11)
Dark Night Reading in Titirangi (1/8/11)
Oracle Couplets (26/8-30/9/11)
Haiku:
Shambling (7/9/11)
CARIB 4WD (7/9/11)
Peach blossom (12/10/11)
The Nightingale (after Marie de France) (31/10/11-14/1/12)
from Jueju (2013)
Red Cliffs (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
Returning to Auckland after Dark (after Su Shi) (6/9-1/10/13)
Spring Morning (after Li Qing Zhao) (6/9-1/10/13)
Rural Life (after Xin Qi Ji) (6/9-1/10/13)
Wallace Stevens Meets the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (6/9-1/10/13)
The Counterfeiters (2-9/11/13)
Poems: 2016-2025
from Family Plot (2016)
A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
Drying Out the Bach (3/1/16-1/1/17)
Bowie at Slane (12/1/16-13/7/17)
A boy was drowned (13/1/16-13/7/17)
3,000 unopened emails (17/1/16-22/10/17)
New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
Gettysburg (20/1/16-22/10/17)
Faith Hill (22/1/16-3/9/21)
Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
We used some (24/1/16-22/10/17)
Trump said (25/1/16-20/1/17)
The new laptop (26/1/16-7/5/17)
Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
from Canberra Tales (2016)
1948 (25/3-4/12/16)
1984 (24/3-4/12/16)
2016 (16/9-4/12/16)
Terrorist or theorist? (16/9-4/12/16)
The President of the Philippines (30/10-24/11/16)
Grenfell Tower Block Fire (15-21/6/17)
Feet splayed (6/7-19/10/17)
Christchurch, 15th March 2019 (19/3-14/4/19)
Just Like the Others (27-28/10/20)
Scurvy Grass (6/2-22/7/21)
The Gulf (for Michele) (25/3-4/9/21)
Stormy Weather (6/6-27/8/21)
Bus lanes (12/5-11/8/22)
No time but the present (for Paula Green) (24/5-7/10/22)
Insomnia. Homer. Reefed sails ... (after Mandelstam) (14-15/5/24)
Amerika (after Goethe) (14-15/5/24)
It was so and not so (after Richard von Sturmer) (19/6/24)
Unpopular Mechanics: Crossing Auckland for Emma Smith (7-9/9/24)
The Late Romances: Pericles (8/6/86-7/1/2025)
___________
[123 poems]
Dieter Riemenschneider, trans. Wildes Licht: Poems / Gedichte aus Aotearoa Neuseeland, englisch-deutsch . Ed. & trans. Dieter Riemenschneider (Christchurch & Kronberg im Taunus: Tranzlit, 2010): 70-73.
Situations i: Albany - Edge City (21/7/98) / Ortsverhalte i: Albany - Randstadt [German]
Situations i: Albany - Between OR and Main Campus (10/9/98) / Ortsverhalte i: Albany - Zwischen OR und Hauptcampus [German]
Situations ii: CBD - Auckland nach dem Regen (13/7/98) / Ortsverhalte ii: CBD - Auckland nach dem Regen [German]
Charles Olsen, trans. "Palabras prestadas #117." Available at: http://libropalabrasprestadas.blogspot.com/2017/05/palabras-prestadas-117.html (5/5/2017).
Rogelio Guedea, trans. "Jack Ross / Howard." Poesía neozelandesa traducido por Rogelio Guedea . Available at: https://poesianeozelandesa.com/poesia/jack-ross/howard/ (1/5/21).
Howard (5-6/1/14) / Howard [Spanish]
Antonella Sarti Evans, trans. Let It Rain E UA TE UA Tukuna ki te Mārama: Poetry from Aotearoa in Multilingual Translation . Ed. Antonella Sarti Evans & Maringikura Mary Campbell (Paekakariki, NZ: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2023): 114 & 196.
___________
[7 poems]
•