Jack Ross: Poems

J. C. Hoyte: View of Auckland City and Harbour (1860)

Poetry Collections
(1997-2023)

1997

Killing Time. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. 20 pp.
1. Auckland by Night / Brussels by Day (18/4–29/6/96)
2. One Version of Pastoral (3/6/81–15/8/96)
3. The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump (25/8/96-2/1/97)
4. On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
5. Morning at a Language School (2/9-5/9/96)
6. A Road through Pylons (8/9-18/10/96)
7. Killing Time (10/9-18/11/96)
8. Recovery (22/10/96-15/1/97)
9. C. P. Cavafy’s The God Abandons Antony (1/96-7/7/96)
10. Petrarch’s Laura I-III (4/12/96-1/1/97)
11. 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.
1. [Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXII: Presences (25/7/91-5/97)
2. [Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXIII: Cavalcanti / Republican Dispatches (25/7/91-5/97)
3. [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.
1. Recovery (22/10/96-15/1/97)
2. On the Occasion of Wet Snow (5/6/83-7/9/96)
3. Albany, Quad Block 8 (24/7/97)
4. One Version of Pastoral (3/6/81–15/8/96)
5. City of Strange Brunettes (20/5-6/6/97)
6. East Coast Bays, Winter (16/6/97)
7. Bayswater, Night (25/7/97)
8. On the Edge (15/6/97)
9. Water-slides (9/3-2/4/97)
10. Before the Rain (1/8/97)
11. Morning at a Language School (2/9-5/9/96)
12. Auckland by Night (18/4-8/6/96)
13. Margarita’s (17/1/97)
14. Unsent Letter to a Celeb (29/9/97)
15. Windy Day (10/11/97)
16. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1/9/97)
17. Fashion ‘97 (29/7/97)
18. Two Kaipara Poems:
  1. Baylys Beach Revisited (11/4/97)
  2. Muriwai 1997 (14/6/97)
19. Dressing Down (12/96)
20. Angel (9/1/97)
21. Reading the Entrails (14/3/97)
22. A Road through Pylons (8/9-18/10/96)
23. The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump (25/8/96-2/1/97)
24. Influenza (19/11/97)
25. Insomnia – 3 a.m. (26/5/97)
26. End of the Year at the End of the World (24/1/97)
27. After Rilke (15/10/97)
28. The God Abandons Antony (1/96-7/7/96)
29. Poets at Seven Years Old (7/91-18/5/97)
30. After Petrarch (4/12/96-1/1/97)
31. Aubade (12/86)
32. Bilingual Recipe for Big Macs (7/7/97)
33. Sig.na Greta Eta Meets Sigmund Freud (5/10/97)
34. Prothalamion (24/2/93)
35. For Walter Jensen (6/7/96)
36. Poem for My Nephew (10/5/97)
37. Elegy for Ames (18/4/91)
38. Outside Cambridge (12/5/81)
39. Théâtre antique d’Orange (16/4/81)
40. On Failing to Meet the Zen Master (10/7/88)
41. Stanzas of Consolation in Despair (29/7/87)
42. Inscription in a Copy of The Tale of Genji (10/8/89)
43. First Love (12/6/81-18/9/97)
44. After Reading Berryman’s Sonnets (6/5/90)
45. Sex-Talk (27/2/97)
46. The Rooftop Cavalier (29/4/97)
47. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (29/7-4/8/89)
48. Modem not Responding (12/11/96)
49. 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:
1. Ashley Gorge (18-19/1/98)
2. Travel Sonnets
  - 1 – On the Road (26/1/98)
  - 2 – Reading U. K. Le Guin (27/1/98)
  - 3 – In the Takaka Valley (30/1/98)
  - 4 – Sumner (2/2/98)
  - 5 – Simple (3/2/98)
  - 6 – Bus (5/2/98)
  - 7 – Rental (8/2/98)
  - 8 – Ghost (11/2/98)
3. The Longest Day (22/12/98)
4. Orpheus in the Bays (5/8/97-27/2/98)
5. Sonnet (22/3/98)
6. 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.
1. Swallows and Amazons (7/3 & 11/4-2/6/2000)
2. Cheating Heart (1/2/99-11/6/2000)
3. A Town Like Parataxis
  1. Winter’s Tale (16/5-7/6/2000)
  2. Walking Home on a Clear Evening (13/11/98-1/4/2000)
  3. Wysiwyg (8/4/99-29/2/2000)
4. At the Warhol Look Exhibition (26/8-14/9/99)
5. 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.
1. One night of spindrift fog ... (6/12/97-2/9/98)
2. Look at the picture ... (30/9-13/12/99)
3. Vampires suck (23/10-19/11/98)
4. 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.
1. Fire (9/6 & 7/7 & 25/6-3/8/2000)
2. Grating your hand … (21/4/97)
3. The Storm (3/7-5/8/2000)
4. Don’t want no plot … (23/6/2000)
5. Fusion (9/6 & 26/6 & 1/6-4/8/2000)
6. Not the butterfly-collector … (22/6/2000)
7. 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.
1. Paul Celan, SCHNEEPART, gebäumt, bis zuletzt … [22/1/68]
  - Snowpart (24/10-30/11/2000)
2. Wendy Nu, keith partridge y yo (6/9-21/10/2000)
3. Paul Celan, ERZFLITTER, tief im … [20/7/68]
  - Orespark (24/10-30/11/2000)
4. Who is Wendy Nu? (25/7/2000)
5. Nouvelle vague (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
6. Paul Celan, KALK-KROKUS, im … [24/8/68]
  - Chalk-Crocus (24/10-28/11/2000)
7. Letter (29/10/2000)
8. Wendy Nu, mr darling writes to penthouse forum (6/9-21/10/2000)
9. Paul Celan, DAS GEDUNKELTE Splitterecho … [5/9/68]
  - Dark (24/10-28/11/2000)
10. It’s always too late … (4-16/11/2000)
11. Paul Celan, BEIDHÄNDIGE Frühe … [29/9/69]
  - Both-Handed (24/10-28/11/2000)

2002

Chantal’s Book. ISBN 0-473-08744-8. Wellington: HeadworX, 2002. 112 pp.
1. Bronze (20/2-2/12/98)
2. Melting the Ice-Block (27-28/12/98)
3. E-Mailing Venus (4/12/98)
4. Bashō (12/98)
5. A Woman Named Intrepid (6/12/98)
6. Ngongotaha (12/98)
7. There’s Something about Chantal … (20/12/98)
8. Situations i: Albany
  1. Edge City (21/7/98)
  2. Between OR and Main Campus (10/9/98)
9. Situations ii: CBD
  1. Auckland nach dem Regen (13/7/98)
  2. Between “The Newton Boys” and “The Big Hit” (31/7/98)
10. Situations iii: Tauranga
  1. Poetry Festival (29/3/98)
  2. Girls on Film (11/9/98)
11. Situations iv: Coromandel (2/9/98)
12. The title (12/98)
13. Chantal at an Opening (11/12/98)
14. "It's not the despair ..." (12/98)
15. Chantal’s Housewarming (11/12/98)
16. No lonely like tonight (12/98)
17. Christmas Cards – Tension Headache – The Madwoman in the Bus – Her Plastic Shopping Bags – Thoughts of Marianne (11/12/98)
18. If (12/98)
19. Lock, Stock , and … (22/12/98)
20. All at Sea (23/12/98)
21. Proverbial Philosophy (28/12/98)
22. Not the Director’s Cut (6/1/99)
23. Body Fictions
  1. Water-marbling (7/1/99)
  2. Insight in (12/10/98-16/1/99)
  3. The music of the rain (4/7-14/10/98)
24. Valentine’s Day ’99 (11/2/99)
25. The Consolations of Chantal
  1. Mute (13/7/98)
  2. Walk Back (16/10/98)
  3. The Mask of Zorro (17/9/98)
  4. Bound (15/10/98)
  5. Aztec (15/10/98)
26. Freeman’s Bay (20/2-25/3/99)
27. Sound Culture (13/3-9/4/99)
28. The Reason Why (21/3/99)
29. Idyll (27/3-22/4/99)
30. Phoenix (after Giordano Bruno):
  1. Tell Briar I got a hammer (28/4/99)
  2. … life is not in our hands … (28/9/98-29/4/99)
  3. les sages et beaux paysages (30/4-27/5/99)
31. Dream-Chantal
  1. ACTS (15/6/99)
  2. Whatever you do (30/6/99)
32. Life-Mask (21/7/99)
33. Chantal: A Creed (4/8/99)
34. Beloved (13-14/8/99)
35. Lessons of the Genji: Around the South Island at New Year
  1. [Wednesday, 29th December - 4 p.m.] (29/12/99)
  2. Gathering I: Motueka Midday (30/12/99)
  3. [Thursday, 30th December - 3.15 p.m.] (30/12/99)
  4. Gathering II: Canaan Downs (31/12/99)
  5. [Friday, 31st December - 4 p.m. to Midnight] (31/12/99)
  6. Gathering III: Zone Five (31/12/99)
  7. [Wednesday, 5th January - 1.40 p.m.] (5/1/2000)
  8. Shades of Meaning at Cape Foulwind (5/1/2000)
  9. Vuelvo al Sur (5/1/2000)
  10. Time and Space on the Okari River (5/1/2000)
  11. [Friday, 7th January - 12.40 p.m.] (7/1/2000)
  12. Perseverence Rd (7/1/2000)
  13. [Saturday, 1st January - 5.50 p.m.] (1/1/2000)
  14. Gematria on the Great Divide (7/1/2000)
  15. [Tuesday, 18th January - 11.15 a.m.] (18/1/2000)
  16. ART (7/1/2000)
  17. [Tuesday, 11th January - 3.05 p.m.] (11/1/2000)
  18. Death and The Maiden (14/1/2000)
  19. [Sunday, 16th January - 8.40 p.m.] (16/1/2000)
  20. Approaches to Aoraki (16/1/2000)
  21. [Monday, 8th March - 23:20:57-0500] (8/3/2000)
  22. Tautuku Bush Walk (20/1/2000)
  23. [Monday, 17th January - 1.50 p.m.] (17/1/2000)
  24. Waituna Gorge (21/1/2000)
  25. [Monday, 24th January - 8.20 a.m.] (24/1/2000)
  26. In the Footsteps of Ice Giants (24/1/2000)
  27. Calypso (24/1/2000)
  28. Extreme Green (25/1/2000)
  29. [Monday, 3rd January - 10.55 a.m.] (3/1/2000)
  30. Der Berggeist (26/1/2000)
  31. [Sunday, 23rd January – 3.15 p.m.] (23/1/2000)
  32. Now Entering Parnassus (31/1/2000)
  33. [Sunday, 30th January - 12.15 p.m.] (30/1/2000)
  34. Christchurch from the Air (4/2/2000)
  35. Voyeur (30/12/99-26-27/1/2000)
  36. Chaos AD (4/2/2000)
  37. [Tuesday, 25th January - 9.40 p.m.] (25/1/2000)
  38. What You Read in My Diary (11/2/2000)
  39. [Monday, 27th December - 10.45 a.m.] (27/12/99)
  40. The Bachelors of the Quintessence (11/2/2000)

Tiger Country (2002)
1. Tiger Country (21 & 28-29/3/02)
2. Dumb (15/7/97-22/11/98-29/10/01)
3. Civil War (30/1/01)
4. Poetry Weekend (28/3/98)
5. Answers to Correspondence (11/3/99-10/3/01-26/10/01)
6. On this day I complete my 36th year (6/11/98-21/3/2000)
7. School (4/8/99)
8. Late-Nite Movie at Wairau Park (10/1-19/9/98)
9. Millennium Sermon (25/12/99-11/3/01)
10. Signs & Portents (27/6, 29/3, 20/6, 13/7, 7/6 & 29/5-1/8/2000)
11. Tron (6/4-17/5/01)
12. Slave 4 U (15/11-9/12/01)
13. Disorder and Early Sorrow (26/6-22/10/01)
14. Memories of Conan the Cimmerian (15/11-9/12/01)
15. Corrugated Garage-doors in Gore St. (25/1-16/10/01)
16. No-one gets on or off (12/2-18/5/01)
17. Going In (9/11-9/12/01)
18. Staying Out (9/11-9/12/01)
19. Intoit (12/11-8/12/01)
20. Subject: Urgent Assistance (7-9/9/02)
21. E (27/4-17/5/01)
22. Breast Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect Women (31/10-2/12/01)
23. [your name here] (6-9/12/01)
24. Last Night at the Party (29/6-19/10/01)
25. 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.
1. The Dream (7/8-8/10/96)
2. Bookmarks (10-24/11/98)
3. Inconsequential (12/7/81)
4. The Great New Zealand Vortex (26/2-10/5/97)
5. Flying the moon (11-17/9/2000)
6. Brought up on Homeric platitudes (30/8-14/9/2000)
7. I is someone else (4-17/9/2000)
8. Femme d’aujourd’hui (4-17/9/2000)
9. 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.
1. Saturday, January 19 –
2. Mysore
  1. Timekeeper to the nation (22/1/02)
  2. Black eyebrows nose (22/1/02)
3. Wednesday, January 23 –
4. Bangalore
  1. Soon to be full six (24/1/02)
  2. Self-conscious in a chair (24/1/02)
5. Sunday, January 27 –
6. Pondicherry
  1. Long live classical divine Tamil (26/1/02)
  2. As crêpes they’re crap (26/1/02)
7. Tuesday, January 29 –
8. Thanjavur
  1. Always in a crowd (28/1/02)
  2. Put that pen away (28/1/02)
9. Wednesday, January 30 –
10. Madurai
  1. Once is never enough (31/1/02)
  2. Not knowing where we’re going (31/1/02)
11. Police Report
12. Kodaikanal
  1. Van Allen Hospital (2/2/02)
  2. Black cow lies in the road (2/2/02)
13. Sunday, February 3 –
14. Kodai / Kanyakumari
  1. Is this going to stay (3/2/02)
  2. They like to see me writing (3/2/02)
15. Monday, February 4 –
16. Cape Comorin
  1. The deer doesn’t enter (4/2/02)
  2. He is not a man (4/2/02)
17. Tuesday, February 5 –
18. Trivandrum
  1. They can make anything (5/2/02)
  2. Haunted eyes (5/2/02)
19. Wednesday, February 6 –
20. Kathakali
  1. A lot of action (6/2/02)
  2. This is my first (6/2/02)
21. Thursday, February 7 –
22. Varkala
  1. Meine Damen und Herren (7/2/02)
  2. The tank’s refilled (7/2/02)
23. Friday, February 8 –
24. Quilon / Alleppey
  1. No-time the expanse (8/2/02)
  2. Helping the Down Trodden (8/2/02)
25. Saturday, February 9 –
26. Fort Cochin
  1. Harbour full of islands (9/2/02)
  2. How do you like Kochi? (9/2/02)
27. Monday, February 11 –
28. Ernakulam
  1. Human contact (10/2/02)
  2. Do I exaggerate? (10/2/02)
29. Tuesday, February 12 –
30. Kochi / Bangalore
  1. Light on the tracks (13/2/02)
  2. One’s the buffoon (13/2/02)
31. Wednesday, February 13 –
32. Bangalore / Panjim
  1. The hooded horror (14/2/02)
  2. Sophie Marceau (14/2/02)
33. Friday, February 15 –
34. Panjim
  1. Fishermen (15/2/02)
  2. Inside the cabin (15/2/02)
35. Saturday, February 16 –
36. North Goa
  1. I’ve caught up with myself (16/2/02)
  2. Palolem Vagatur (16/2/02)
37. Monday, February 18 –
38. Madgaon
  1. Is it the moment? (18/2/02)
  2. Ahead of myself (18/2/02)
39. Tuesday, February 19 –
40. Madgaon / Bombay
  1. White herons taking flight (21/2/02)
  2. Life must go on (21/2/02)
41. Thursday, February 21 –
42. Bombay
  1. That is the biggest (22/2/02)
  2. I can laugh about it now (22/2/02)
43. Friday, February 22 –
44. Auckland
  1. New construction Amcare (25/2/02)
  2. An alien species (25/2/02)
45. 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.
1. Ithaka (after C. P. Cavafy) (30/8-12/10/04)

Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
1. O Canada! (30-31/7/03)
2. Cruisy morning, eh? (8-19/8/03)
3. Tentacles of Destruction (14 & 20-27/5/04)
4. Asbestos Hands of Dr. J. (7/10/04-26/1/06)
5. We were Soldiers (20-21/4/02)
6. Castor Bay (17-24/2/06)
7. DEATH & BEYOND (2-5/6/03)
8. Refrigerium (20-22/1/06)
9. Birkenhead (21-22/11/03)
10. A Sunday Walk (13-31/7/03)
11. Such Manners (21-23/12/05)
12. First Night (20-21/4/02)
13. Cycle Couriers in Freyberg Place (17-25/2/06)
14. This DVD contains everything you ever wanted to know … (13-15/9/05)
15. The Kid Stays in the Picture (27-28/5/03)
16. Every girl’s a babe (6-10/9/05)
17. Newmarket (30/6-22/7/03)
18. Unsuccessful Applicant for Neighbourhood Watch (29/9/05)
19. Coromandel (26-28/7/03)
20. Blinds (28/2-11/3/06)

Love in Wartime. Wellington: Pania Press, 2006. 20 pp.
1. Porphyry skyline (26/2-1/3/03)
2. Rhinoceros (13/2-1/3/03)
3. Entering the world again (11/1-2/3/03)
4. Bright Flowers (10-11/3/03)
5. You just don’t have the sympathy (10/2-1/3/03)
6. Stops when you watch it (17/8/02-6/3/03)

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.
1. Auckland – Bangkok – Frankfurt (21/3-3/4/05)
2. Farrell said … (21-22/3/05)
3. Planet … (10/12/04-1/4/05)
4. The Apartment (29/3-3/4/05)
5. John on Prague (26/12/04)
6. Jana’s Note (15/12/04)
7. England … (23/3/05)
8. A legless woman … (13/12-23/3/05)
9. Matchboxes (22-23/3/05)
10. Gypsies … (21/12/04-3/4/05)
11. The Resistance (21/12/04-3/4/05)
12. Voyeur (21/12/04-5/4/05)
13. John on computer dating (15/12/04-23/3/05)
14. Hospitality (31/3-1/4/05)
15. First Attempt (22-23/3/05)
16. The Ossuary – Das Beinhaus in Sedlec (18/12/04-23/3/05)
17. Second Attempt (22-23/3/05)
18. Black Light Theatre (22/3-2/4/05)
19. We walked across … (28/12/04)
20. Composed … (28/12/04)
21. Signs (28/12/04)
22. Terezín Memorial (28/12/04)
23. Ghetto Museum (28/12/04)
24. Creepsville (28/12/04)
25. One Day to Go (28/12/04)
26. Prisoner of Paradise (22-23/3/05)
27. Prague Novel (29/12/04-31/3/05)
28. Frankfurt (31/1-31/3/05)
29. They’ve (20-22/4/05)
30. If (29/3-3/4/05)
31. Trying to Write (24/2-22/4/05)
32. Tension (11/7/04-21/4/05)
33. Our Lady (1/10/04-21/4/05)
34. No (25-26/2/05)
35. Your Past Life Ghosts (27/10/04)

Papyri: Love poems & fragments from Sappho & elsewhere. ISBN 978-0-473-12397-0. Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2007. 24 pp.
1. When you walked in … (13/1-27/2/07)
2. Sappho to Anaktoria (4/8-2/10/06)
3. Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem (4/2/07)
4. Ode to Aphrodite (4/2-28/2/07)
5. Life among the Surrealists (21-26/11/06; 4/2/07)
6. Atthis (13/1-9/2/07)
7. Mnasidika (13/1-11/2/07)
8. Fragments (22-24/2/07)
  1. I love magnificence … (13/1-22/2/07)
  2. Dying is bad … (4/8/06-22/2/07)
  3. The Moon’s set … (13/1-22/2/07)
  4. This pretty baby is mine … (13/1-24/2/07)
  5. Mum, I can’t thread … (13/1-24/2/07)
  6. Last night you slept on the breast … (13/1-24/2/07)
  7. We love to hear … (24/2/07)
9. To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry (13/1-12/2/07)
10. Juicy Root (13/1-27/2/07)
11. Virgin (13/1-27/2/07)
12. 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.
1. E M O
  1. Welcome (5/6-14/7/05)
  2. Inheritor (10/4-14/7/05)
2. Metaphors of The 1001 Nights (30/6/95-2/8/03)
3. Burmese Days (20-23/3/03)
4. Trois filles de leur mère (24/11-2/12/01)
5. Free Love (20/11/04-25/4/05)
6. Marriage (14-26/8/99)
7. The Stranger (14-17/8/99)
8. Tristia 3.2 (12/7-15/8/06)
9. Tristia 3.3 (13/7-27/8/06)
10. Tristia 3.8 (18/7-27/8/06)
11. Tristia 3.10 (11/7-27/8/06)
12. Tristia 3.12 (13/7-27/8/06)
13. Tristia 3.13 (13/7-27/8/06)
14. Tristia 5.7 (13/7-28/8/06)
15. Tristia 5.10 (13/7-28/8/06)
16. Tristia 5.12 (13/7-28/8/06)
17. Epistulae 1.2 (14/7-29/8/06)
18. Sleep Threshold – Hypnagogia (15-29/6/06)
19. Epistulae 4.7 (14/7-30/8/06)
20. Epistulae 4.10 (14/7-30/8/06)
21. Epistulae 4.14 (14/7-30/8/06)
22. Fasti V: 421-44 (27-28/9/06)
23. Monkey (10/8/07)

2009

31 Days (2009)
1. April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
2. Hiding the Lunch (2/4-6/8/09)
3. One More Thing (3/4 & 8/9/09-22/7/10)
4. Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
5. “The archaeologist of the present day” (5/4-18/6//09)
6. Three fits (6/4-16/7/10)
7. Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
8. Foundry (8/4-20/9/09)
9. Toys (China, 1908) (9/4-18/6/09)
10. Legacy (10/4-15/11/09-24/1/11)
11. New Zealand’s Next Top Model Speaks (11/4-18/6/09)
12. Substitutes only need apply (12/4-18/6/09)
13. Memoirs from beyond the grave (13/4-15/11/09)
14. Two Falls (14/4-15/11/09-16/1/11)
15. Badges (15/4-15/11/09)
16. Vampires (16/4/09, 8/9/09, 4/5/10-12/7/10)
17. Not everyone can get an 'A' (17/4-15/11/09-5/7/11)
18. Dire Straits (18/4-15/11/09-18/1/11)
19. “Concern for Tony Veitch’s safety” (19/4/09)
20. Orpheish (20/4-13/8/09)
21. The Dada Lady of the Sonnets (21-23/4/09)
22. The Assassination Weapon (22/4-18/6/09)
23. The Darkness (23/4-18/6/09)
24. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (24/4-15/11/09)
25. Anzac Day (25/4-18/6/09)
26. Argo (26/4-18/6/09)
27. Class Discourse (27/4-15/11/09-2/1/12)
28. The Double (28/4-20/9/09-8/1/11)
29. Before the Storm (29/4-15/11/09)
30. Advice on Essay-writing (30/4-20/9/09-29/7/11)
31. 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.
1. I ♥ NZ (11/2/99)
2. NZ Golf (and English) Academy (31/12/98)
3. Boi-Boi on Karaoke (29/12/98)
4. Language School Picnic (28/3/98)
5. Journey to the West
  1. Evening (18/6-20/9/98)
  2. Clouds (18/6-9/9/98)
  3. Countdown (18/6-9/9/98)
6. Index (27/12/01- 4/3/02)
7. Mysteries: A Christmas Poem
  1. The stones have eyes …. (6/10-29/11/03)
  2. Brought down … (10-29/11/03)
  3. There is no same word … (2/9-29/11/03)
8. In the Days of The Lord of the Rings (20-27/11/02)
9. A Question of Faith (22-26/3/03)
10. Bonfire Gothic
  1. Dogshit at a distance (12/1-5/2/03)
  2. 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.
1. Haiku 1-12 (4-18/3/04)
2. Tanka 1-2 (18/3/04)
3. Time to Kill (29/3/04)
4. Tanka 3-4 (1/4/04)
5. Haiku 13 (18/4/01)
6. Spleen (8/2/96)
7. Before the Disaster:
  1. Just because you’re rich doesn’t make you gay (30/11/07-6/2/08)
  2. 30 at the roadworks = 50 (30/11/07-6/2/08)
  3. Les montagnes sont des bâtiments (30/10/06-3/12/07)
  4. Give Blood (26/1-7/2/08)
  5. 3 Sisters (26/1-7/2/08)
8. U.P.: up (2/7-21/10/08)
9. Dream Poem 1: Stalin’s Raven (4/10/89-18/12/06)
10. Dream Poem 2: Party in the SCR (20/10/89-5/2/09)
11. Dream Poem 3: Book-Sale (24/10/89-5/2/09)
12. Dream Poem 4: A Glastonbury Romance (25/10/89-5/2/09)
13. Dream Poem 5: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (27/1/90-5/2/09)
14. Dream Poem 6: Claire’s Dream (21/5/90-5/2/09)
15. Dream Poem 7: Malcolm O (22/5/90-5/2/09)
16. Dream Poem 8: Ugolino (24/7/91-5/2/09)
17. Dream Poem 9: The War (18/1/94-18/12/06)
18. Dream Poem 10: Finland (31/5/94-5/2/09)
19. 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).
1. The Great Wall of China (6/1/11)
2. The Double (28/4-20/9/09-8/1/11)
3. Tree Worship (20/12/10-12/1/11)
4. Self / Counterself (3/12/10-13/1/11)
5. Vastation (1/11/10-15/1/11)
6. Two Falls (14/4-15/11/09-16/1/11)
7. Featherston (1-17/1/11)
8. Dire Straits (18/4-15/11/09-18/1/11)
9. Featherstone (3-22/1/11)
10. Legacy (10/4-15/11/09-24/1/11)
11. Concepts Cross in Mist (7/3/11)
12. Not everyone can get an 'A' (17/4-15/11/09-5/7/11)
13. Marooned (6-26/7/11)
14. Advice on Essay-writing (30/4-20/9/09-29/7/11)
15. Ghost Stories (7/12/11-1/1/12)
16. Class Discourse (27/4-15/11/09-2/1/12)
17. Research Assumptions (3/1/12)
18. Pity what you can’t change (20/10/11-9/1/12)
19. Featherston Tales (12-22/1/12)
20. I can’t even tell (16-17/8/11-22-23/1/12)
21. Cairo the Victorious (6-13/5/12)
22. Feb 4. Disappointment (26/4-13-14/5/12)
23. Trans-Tasman Relations (11-16/5/12)
24. Life in the Tararuas (26/4-18/5/12)
25. Coral Burrows (6/10/11-22/5/12)
26. Delphi (27/4-23/5/12)
27. Mercator’s Projections (12-13/8/11-1/6/12)
28. Forest & Demarcation Zone (21/9-6/10/11-6/6/12)
29. Mercator & Nostradamus (12-13/8/11-9/6/12)
30. Family Portrait (22/9-11/10/11-13/6/12)
31. Time-slips (14/8/11-20/6/12)
32. Never give up (14/7-1/8/11-27/6/12)
33. 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.
1. Chorus 1 - Cursed with prophecy (15-19/4/08)
2. Chorus 2 - I ran through the wood (19/4/08)
3. Chorus 3 - Little girl lost (1/4/06-19/4/08)
4. Chorus 4 - Joy lives with those (19-25/4/08)
5. Chorus 5 - Cursed with second sight (19/4/08)
6. Chorus 6 - See how Apollo (22/4/08)
7. Chorus 7 - The labour pains (22/4/08)
8. Chorus 8 - There she goes (19-25/4/08)
9. Chorus 9 - Drops of holy water (30/4-12/5/08)
10. 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.
1. Introduction (19-20/5/11-9/1/12)
2. Opening Chorus - Tell me Muses (6-7/1/12)
3. Scenes
4. Final Chorus - You can’t strike (7-9/1/12)
5. Opening Chorus - He who sailed the deep (6-9/1/12)
6. Scenes
7. Final Chorus - My friend I held so dear (6-9/1/12)
8. Opening Chorus - Hatupatu (6-9/1/12)
9. Scenes
10. 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.
1. Maïa [7/1/52] [5] (9/3-11/4/10)
2. The Sun’s [1952] [22] (9/3-29/4/10)
3. I heard [Autumn 1952] [23] (9/3-2/11/10)
4. Already [30/3/54] [37] (9/3-11/4/10)
5. Islandward [22/6/54] [42] (5/3-11/4/10)
6. The Beach at Toulinget [Autumn ’54] [43] (9/3-25/4/10)
7. You [20/11/54] [44] (5/3-10/4/10)
8. So [7/4/55] [58] (9/3-29/4/10)
9. Matter of Britain [13/8/57] [83] (9/3-29/4/10)
10. The word [5/3/59 – 21/11/65] [106 / 302] (9/3-29/4/10)
11. Heart (for René Char) [6/1/60] [114] (9/3-11/4/10)
12. Hard [15/12/60] [130] (27/3-23/5/10)
13. A Thieves’ and Beggars’ Ballad [2/61] [133] (27/1-7/8/11)
14. The bright [5/11/61] [138] (5/3-9/6/10)
15. The buzzard’s [21/10/62 – 19/3/63] [153 / 175] (9/3/10-27/1-6/8/11)
16. This [3/11/62] [158] (5/3/10-7/8/11)
17. Thinking [24/10/63] [176] (27/1-9/8/11)
18. Hourglass [4/6/64] [184] (5/3/10-27/1-9/8/11)
19. Those [January 1965] [212] (27/1-12/8/11)
20. & our son [6/5/65] [221] (27/1-12/8/11)
21. A roar [7/5/65] [222] (27/1-12/8/11)
22. Souvenir of D. [10/5/65] [231] (27/1-14/8/11)
23. Give the Word [14/5/65] [236] (5/3/10-27/1-14/8/11)
24. Bowls [9/5/65] [236] (9/3/10-27/1-14/8/11)
25. Banners [4/8/65] [253] (27/1-14/8/11)
26. Rest [18/8/65] [264] (27/1-17/8/11)
27. Come [7/9/65] [275] (25/9/11)
28. Chance [24/9/65] [282] (27/1-17/8/11)
29. The ounce [25/10/65] [296] (5/3/10-27/1-17/8/11)
30. Noisy [26/10/65] [300] (27/1-23/8/11)
31. Depths [25/2-2/3/66] [359] (5/3/10-27/1-23/8/11)
32. Molten gold [28/2/66] [359] (27/1-23/8/11)
33. Hewed stone [17/3/66] [373] (5/3/10-27/1-6/10/11)
34. Suffocating [20/3/66] [376] (27/1-24/8/11)
35. Spiky [21/3/66] [379] (27/1-24/8/11)
36. Underrun [26/3/66] [382] (27/1-26/8/11)
37. Shame [26/3/66] [383] (17/1/10-27/1-26/8/11)
38. Above our heads [28/3/66] [386] (5/3-25/4/10)
39. Are [28/3/66] [386] (5/3-25/4/10)
40. Dauntless [29/3/66] [388] (5/3/10-28/1-26/8/11)
41. After abandoning [30/3/66] [389] (28/1-31/8/11)
42. Irruption [31/3/66] [391] (28/1-31/8/11)
43. True as a scar [26/3/66] [396] (5/3/10-28/1-31/8/11)
44. Thoughtless [4/4/66] [398] (28/1-31/8/11)
45. Rope [6/4 – 17/4/66] [401 / 408] (28/1-1/9/11)
46. By ice fire [7/4/66] [402] (28/1-4/9/11)
47. Forced to come down [7/4/66] [403] (4/5/10-28/1-4/9/11)
48. & if [8/4/66] [404] (28/1-4/9/11)
49. Torchsong [9/4/66] [405] (28/1-6/9/11)
50. Mit uns [16/4/66] [409] (28/1-6/9/11)
51. Wilderness [22/4/66] [412] (5/3/10-28/1-7/9/11)
52. I’m writing down [23/4/66] [415] (5/3-25/4/10)
53. Sacrificial troughs [27/4/66] [421] (28/1-9/9/11)
54. Devastations? [1/5/66] [424] (11-3/10-28/1-9/9/11)
55. Whistled up [2/5/66] [428] (11/3/10-28/1-10/9/11)
56. My Dear [2/5/66] [429] (28/1-10/9/11)
57. Bouts of sleep [13/6/66] [455] (28/1-10/9/11)
58. Arrow-sister [24/5/67] [508] (28/1-12/9/11)
59. Paired, by the Brâncuşi [4/8/67] [540] (28/1-12/9/11)
60. Tow-barge [3/12/67] [595] (28/1-13/9/11)
61. Lilac air [23/12/67] [595] (28/1-13/9/11)
62. Gravediggers [25/12/67] [595] (28/1-13/9/11)
63. Year opening [2/1/68] [595] (28/1-13/9/11)
64. This world’s [5/1/68] [595] (28/1-13/9/11)
65. What’s stitched [10/1/68] [597] (28/1-14/9/11)
66. [i] Relics of hearing [9/6/67] [599] (27/3/10-28/1-16/9/11)
67. [ii] Night rode him [9-10-11/6-10/9/67] [599] (27/3/10-28/1-16/9/11)
68. [iii] Shoals of mussels [14/6/67] [599] (27/3/10-28/1-17/9/11)
69. [iv] Weighed [15/6/67] [599] (27/3/10-28/1-17/9/11)
70. [v] Studded [16/6/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
71. [vi] Gone [20/6/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
72. [vii] Already we lay [24/6/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
73. [viii] Mines [27-28/6/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
74. [ix] Who [1/7/67] [599] (11/3-11/4/10)
75. [x] Loaded [5/7/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-18/9/11)
76. [xi] Green light [8/7/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
77. [xii] Beacon- [8/7/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
78. [xiii] Adjusted [17/7/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
79. [xiv] That [17/7/67] [599] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
80. Creeping weed [25/2/69] [639] (11/3/10-28/1-20/9/11)
81. Hateful moons [21/3/69] [642] (11/3/10-1/2-20/9/11)
82. In [29/3/69] [643] (11/3-25/4/10)
83. Kew Gardens [6/4/69] [648] (11/3-25/4/10)
84. Gold [12/4/69] [649] (27/3/10-28/1-20/9/11)
85. The world [21/4/69] [651] (11/3/10-28/1-19/9/11)
86. I see you [4-5/5/69] [653] (11/3-25/4/10)
87. Above [9/5/69] [654] (11/3-25/4/10)
88. There [13/12/69] [670] (11/3-11/4/10)
89. Leave [676] (8/2-25/4/10)
90. Textual Notes

2013

Jueju (2013)
1. Transcultural Imaginaries (for Yang Lian) (18-23/6/13)
2. Make-Up (after Wen Tingyun) (6/9-1/10/13)
3. On City Streets (after Wang Anshi) (6/9-30/10/13)
4. Hunting in Palmerston (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
5. 40 Bogan Anthems (after Axl Rose) (24/8-5/9/13)
6. Red Cliffs (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
7. Returning to Auckland after Dark (after Su Shi) (6/9-1/10/13)
8. Inferno 13 (after Dante Alighieri) (31/8-1/10/13)
9. Spring Morning (after Li Qing Zhao) (6/9-1/10/13)
10. Rural Life (after Xin Qi Ji) (6/9-1/10/13)
11. 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.
1. Tanera Beag (3/6/81)
2. Antipodes (1998)
  1. Midsummer Xmas (22/12/97)
  2. Strange Meeting (3/1/98)
  3. Morning Swim (11/1/98)
  4. Commuter (5/1/98)
3. Except Once (17/3/98)
4. from Travel Sonnets (1998)
  1. Reading U. K. Le Guin (27/1/98)
  2. Simple (3/2/98)
  3. Rental (8/2/98)
  4. After Supervielle & Apollinaire (2/98)
5. A Clearer View of the Hinterland (7-10/7/98)
6. God’s Spy (1998)
  1. Cover (20/2/98)
  2. Code (6/3/98)
  3. Stories (5/3/98)
  4. Safe House (23/12/96)
  5. Signs (27/4/98)
  6. The Opposition (31/4/98)
  7. Inside (31/4/98)
  8. Blown (20/5/98)
7. Withdrawal Symptoms (26/1/99-24/6/2000)
8. Out Being Alienated (1999)
  1. Came here the other night for a sticky (20/5/99)
  2. The perfect mixer for the perfect city
    1. Viaduct Basin (20/5/99)
    2. Whiplash (18/6/99)
    3. The Street-Vendor (10/6/99)
  3. Be honest (20/5/99)
  4. Give me a reason to boogie down (22/6/99)
  5. The perpetual time of never coming back (21/6/99)
9. Auckland Girl (9/2/99)
10. The Britney Suite (2000)
  1. Paul Celan, SCHNEEPART, gebäumt, bis zuletzt … [22/1/68]
    - Snowpart (24/10-30/11/2000)
  2. Wendy Nu, keith partridge y yo (6/9-21/10/2000)
  3. Paul Celan, ERZFLITTER, tief im … [20/7/68]
    - Orespark (24/10-30/11/2000)
  4. Who is Wendy Nu? (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
  5. Nouvelle vague (25/7-26/8-20/10-26/10/2000)
  6. Paul Celan, KALK-KROKUS, im … [24/8/68]
    - Chalk-Crocus
  7. Letter (6/9-21/10/2000)
  8. Wendy Nu, mr darling writes to penthouse forum (6/9-21/10/2000)
  9. Paul Celan, DAS GEDUNKELTE Splitterecho … [5/9/68]
    - Dark (24/10-28/11/2000)
  10. It’s always too late … (4-16/11/2000)
  11. Paul Celan, BEIDHÄNDIGE Frühe … [29/9/69]
    - Both-Handed (24/10-28/11/2000)
11. After Apollinaire (10/3/99)
12. from Tiger Country (2001)
  1. Tiger Country (21 & 28-29/3/02)
  2. Dumb (15/7/97-22/11/98-29/10/01)
  3. Civil War (30/1/01)
  4. Disorder and Early Sorrow (26/6-22/10/01)
  5. [your name here] (6-9/12/01)
13. Quasimodo’s Last Poem (7/9/99-18/2/2000)
14. Seven Levels of the Waterfall (2002)
  1. Hill Country
    1. Ban Rim Lai (6/1/02)
    2. Chiang Rai (6/1/02)
  2. Golden Triangle
    1. Mekong Sunset (7/1/02)
    2. Lao-Burmese Border (7/1/02)
  3. Air-con Bus
    1. Chris (8/1/02)
    2. Daniella (8/1/02)
  4. Ayutthaya
    1. Victory Chedi of Naresuan the Great (9/1/02)
    2. The Squirrel (9/1/02)
  5. Rafthouse
    1. Wat Tam Sua (10/1/02)
    2. Khun Phen (10/1/02)
  6. Erewhon
    1. No Fear (11/1/02)
    2. ‘Show a little compassion, guys’ (11/1/02)
  7. Bangkok
    1. The Golden Mountain (12/1/02)
    2. Eurotrash (12/1/02)
15. Stone Pine Lavender (15/12-19/12/2000)
16. The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander (2003)
  1. I ♥ NZ (11/2/99)
  2. NZ Golf (and English) Academy (31/12/98)
  3. Boi-Boi on Karaoke (29/12/98)
  4. Language School Picnic (28/3/98)
  5. Journey to the West
    1. Evening (18/6-20/9/98)
    2. Clouds (18/6-9/9/98)
    3. Countdown (18/6-9/9/98)
  6. Index (27/12/01- 4/3/02)
  7. Mysteries: A Christmas Poem
    1. The stones have eyes … (6/10-29/11/03)
    2. Brought down … (10-29/11/03)
    3. There is no same word … (2/9-29/11/03)
  8. In the Days of The Lord of the Rings (20-27/11/02)
  9. A Question of Faith (22-26/3/03)
  10. Bonfire Gothic
    1. Dogshit at a distance (12/1-5/2/03)
    2. Diaphanous sails (30/1-5/2/03)
17. Samsara – Breaking through (10-23/1/03)
18. Love in Wartime (2003)
  1. Porphyry skyline (26/2-1/3/03)
  2. Rhinoceros (13/2-1/3/03)
  3. Entering the world again (11/1-2/3/03)
  4. Bright Flowers (10-11/3/03)
  5. You just don’t have the sympathy (10/2-1/3/03)
  6. Stops when you watch it (17/8/02-6/3/03)
19. The Miracle (4-13/8/06)
20. [with David Howard] Three Sisters (after René Char) (9-12/4/04)
  1. in the urn of the second
  2. twosies
  3. shoulder your children
21. Zen and the Art of America’s Next Top Model (17-24/2/06)
22. from Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
  1. O Canada! (30-31/7/03)
  2. Tentacles of Destruction (14 & 20-27/5/04)
  3. Asbestos Hands of Dr. J. (7/10/04-26/1/06)
  4. DEATH & BEYOND (2-5/6/03)
  5. Refrigerium (20-22/1/06)
  6. Birkenhead (21-22/11/03)
  7. A Sunday Walk (13-31/7/03)
  8. This DVD contains everything you ever wanted to know … (13-15/9/05)
  9. Newmarket (30/6-22/7/03)
  10. Unsuccessful Applicant for Neighbourhood Watch (29/9/05)
  11. Coromandel (26-28/7/03)
  12. Blinds (28/2-11/3/06)
23. Zero at the Bone (12-15/3/08)
24. Papyri: Love Poems & Fragments from Sappho & Elsewhere (2007)
  1. When you walked in … (13/1-27/2/07)
  2. Sappho to Anaktoria (4/8-2/10/06)
  3. Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem (4/2/07)
  4. Ode to Aphrodite (4/2-28/2/07)
  5. Life among the Surrealists (21-26/11/06; 4/2/07)
  6. Atthis (13/1-9/2/07)
  7. Mnasidika (13/1-11/2/07)
  8. Fragments (22-24/2/07)
    1. I love magnificence … (13/1-22/2/07)
    2. Dying is bad … (4/8/06-22/2/07)
    3. The Moon’s set … (13/1-22/2/07)
    4. This pretty baby is mine … (13/1-24/2/07)
    5. Mum, I can’t thread … (13/1-24/2/07)
    6. Last night you slept on the breast … (13/1-24/2/07)
    7. We love to hear … (24/2/07)
  9. To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry (13/1-12/2/07)
  10. Juicy Root (13/1-27/2/07)
  11. Virgin (13/1-27/2/07)
  12. Sappho’s Epithalamion (13/1-10/3/07)
25. Eel (after Montale) (25-29/4/08)
26. from 31 Days (2009)
  1. April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
  2. Hiding the Lunch (2/4-6/8/09)
  3. “The archaeologist of the present day” (5/4-18/6//09)
  4. Three fits (6/4-16/7/10)
  5. New Zealand’s Next Top Model Speaks (11/4-18/6/09)
  6. Substitutes only need apply (12/4-18/6/09)
  7. The Assassination Weapon (22/4-18/6/09)
  8. The Darkness (23/4-18/6/09)
  9. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (24/4-15/11/09)
  10. Mayday (1/5-18/6/09)
27. Last Conference before Passchendaele (24/12/09-8/2/10)
28. The Jay Poems (2012)
  1. Jay & the Mail-Order Bride (25/1-3/2/12)
  2. Jay as Line-Manager (2/11/11-3/2/12)
  3. Jay & the Great Storm (2-3/2/12)
  4. Jay Addresses the Troops (16-25/3/12)
  5. Jay & The Economics of Happiness (5-25/3/12)
  6. Jay on a Friday Night (28/3-25/4/12)
  7. Jay’s Fear of Retirement (29/3-25/4/12)
  8. Jay at the Pataphysics Conference (29/3-22/4/12)
  9. Jay Finds a ’40s Photograph (21-29/9/12)
  10. Jay on Fate (11/12/12-17/1/13)
  11. Jay at the Glowworm Caves (11/12/12-10/1/13)
  12. Jay Checks His Father into a Home (11/12/12-10/1/13)
  13. Jay Gets His Hair Cut at the Mall (13/12/12-10/1/13)
29. Lounge Room Tribalism (21/1-8/2/11)
30. from Jueju (2013)
  1. Transcultural Imaginaries (for Yang Lian) (18-23/6/13)
  2. Make-Up (after Wen Tingyun) (6/9-1/10/13)
  3. On City Streets (after Wang Anshi) (6/9-30/10/13)
  4. 40 Bogan Anthems (after Axl Rose) (24/8-5/9/13)
  5. Inferno 13 (after Dante Alighieri) (31/8-1/10/13)
  6. Thinking of My Father (after Liu Ke Zhang) (6/9-17/10/13)
31. 12-12-12 (after Dante, Inferno 1: ll. 1-30) (11-18/12/12)
32. The Other Side (21-29/3/13)
  1. 1914 – The Elberfeld Horses (21-23/3/13)
  2. 1966 – The Unknown Guest (21-24/3/13)
  3. 2013 – Rare and Obscure (21-24/3/13)
33. Howard (5-6/1/14)
34. Leaving Town (10-12/12/13)

2016

Family Plot (2016)
1. Oral exam, 1990 (1/1-21/8/16)
2. A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
3. Drying Out the Bach (3/1/16-1/1/17)
4. Very superstitious (4/1-21/8/16)
5. Indexing Poetry NZ (5/1-29/8/16)
6. Oh br/other! (6/1/16-13/7/17)
7. Psych 101 (7/1/16-4/1/17)
8. The perils of public art (8/1/16-7/5/17)
9. Rituals (9/1/16-7/5/17)
10. Family skeletons (10/1/16-7/5/17)
11. Self-analysis (11/1/16-7/5/17)
12. Bowie at Slane (12/1/16-13/7/17)
13. A boy was drowned (13/1/16-13/7/17)
14. Communications committee (14/1-4/12/16)
15. Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
16. This morning Sylvie (16/1/16-7/5/17)
17. 3,000 unopened emails (17/1/16-22/10/17)
18. Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
19. New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
20. Gettysburg (20/1/16-22/10/17)
21. Turning at the doorstep (21/1/16-19/10/17)
22. Faith Hill (22/1/16-3/9/21)
23. Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
24. We used some (24/1/16-22/10/17)
25. Trump said (25/1/16-20/1/17)
26. The new laptop (26/1/16-7/5/17)
27. Everything ages too fast (27/1/16-7/5/17)
28. Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
29. Playing the long game (29/1-7/5/17)
30. Are Kiwi women (30/1-29/10/16)
31. 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.
1. 1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
2. 1948 (25/3-4/12/16)
3. 1984 (24/3-4/12/16)
4. 2016 (16/9-4/12/16)

Poetry Specials (2008-2022). Papyri (28/12/2017)
1. Minotaur (15-18/12/97 & 19/2/98)
2. Je donne à mon espoir (10/3/99)
3. Volcanic Glass (3-13/3/08)
4. Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
5. Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
6. Lounge Room Tribalism (21/1-8/2/11)
7. Britain's Missing Top Model (23-7/5/11)
8. Except Once (17/3/98)
9. Jay Checks His Father into a Home (11/12/12-10/1/13)
10. Ice Road Trucker (7/2-30/3/15)
11. Antigone (29/5/14; 18/4-13/6/15)
12. 1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
13. Canberra Tales (24/3-4/12/16)
14. Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
15. Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
16. Malinche Dreams (6/7-19/10/17)
17. Scurvy Grass (6/2-22/7/21)

2018

Collage Poems: 1997-2005. Papyri (31/1/2018)
1. Jack's Metamorphoses (15/6/97-23/8/98)
2. Conversation Pieces (14/9/97-24/9/98)
3. Wharfbury Dogs (21/4/98)
4. Evenings in the Blackout (27/10-19/11/98)
5. Dieting. I'm Hungry too (21/12/99-5/5/2000)
6. In the Cave of Henry James (16/6 & 9/7-28/7/2000)
7. Ancestral Voices (9/88-14/3/01)
8. Satan's School for Girls (30/5-26/7/02)
9. Anamorphoses (22/4-4/10/02)
10. Postcards (13/11/02-21/5/03)
11. Servants of the Wankh (23/12/02-24/1/03)
12. Suburban Apocalypse (13/6/01-7/11/04)
13. Days Under Water (27/11/01-24/4/04)
14. Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (27/11 & 12/12/03-14/3/04)
15. 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.
1. 3 Mayan Poems:
  1. Lacandon-Maya Poem (6/3-23/3/13)
  2. Tzotzil-Maya Prayer (6/3-23/3/13)
  3. Yucatán-Maya Hunting Song (6/3-23/3/13)
2. Chinese girl students (19/6/18-26/1/19)
3. 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.
1. The Oceanic Feeling (7/1-18/10/17)
2. Lone pine (14/1-5/12/14)
3. Family plot (26/6-12/8/15)
4. When you’re the only one (30/9-19/11/17)
5. Oh br/other! (6/1/16-13/7/17)
6. This morning Sylvie (16/1/16-7/5/17)
7. Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
8. What to do till the sentinels come (11-23/4/18)
9. Rituals (9/1/16-7/5/17)
10. My Uncle Tommy (15-23/4/18)
11. 1942 (17/9-4/12/16)
12. Very superstitious (4/1-21/8/16)
13. Playing the long game (29/1/16-7/5/17)
14. Are Kiwi women (30/1-29/10/16)
15. Rather a shock (15/1/16-7/5/17)
16. Family skeletons (10/1/16-7/5/17)
17. Self-analysis (11/1/16-7/5/17)
18. Checking into Facebook (31/1-5/12/16)
19. A borrowed life (30/9-2/10/17)
20. Psych 101 (7/1/16-4/1/17)
21. What do you want? (8/9-13/10/18)
22. Ice Road Trucker (7/2-30/3/15)
23. Two Fords (17/7-12/8/15)
24. Stranded Polar Bear (21/11-14/12/19)
25. Indexing Poetry NZ (5/1-29/8/16)
26. Turning at the doorstep (21/1/16-19/10/17)
27. The perils of public art (8/1/16-7/5/17)
28. Communications committee (14/1-4/12/16)
29. Oral exam, 1990 (1/1-21/8/16)
30. Everything ages too fast (27/1/16-7/5/17)
31. Restructuring (7/1-12/3/20)
32. Kissing the Blarney Stone (23/4-29/8/16)
33. Skins, 1981 (22/2-14/4/19)
34. Snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef (17-19/11/17)
35. Mark (21/6-12/8/15)
36. Reindeer games (27/12/17)
37. The Mysterious Island (18-26/4/15)
38. Antigone (29/5/14; 18/4-13/6/15)
39. Shorts:
  1. Birds of Passage (12/11/14-7/2/15)
  2. Auckland Anthem (30/3-15/4/12)
  3. Hunting in Palmerston (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
40. On Early Trains (after Boris Pasternak) (26/1-7/2/15)
41. Bangalore 2002 (after Boris Pasternak) (30/12/14-7/2/15)
42. 1913 (after Apollinaire) (21/6-12/8/15)

2023

The Zero Suite: 2007-2023. Papyri (2/5/2023)
1. Give blood (26/1-7/2/08)
2. Zero at the Bone (12-15/3/08)
3. April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
4. Returning to Auckland after Dark (6/9-1/10/13)
5. A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
6. Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
7. New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
8. Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
9. What to do till the sentinels come (11-23/4/18)
10. All I want (2/9/22-8/4/23)
11. Catullus 101 (12/9/22-28/5/23)

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[689 poems]

•

Jack Ross: Showcase (2021)

Uncollected Poems

Poems: 1981-1999
1. Obsolete (December 1981)
2. The Shaman (January 1982)
3. The Present Tense (17/7/83-18/4/97)
4. Pierre de Ronsard - Cassandre (1989):
  1. Gilt, rich in raiment, falling on my love (12/7/89)
  2. It's quite a metaphor (imagine this (13/7/89)
  3. Freed from Right Reason, turn'd to Passion's slave (14/7/89)
5. Epithalamion (28/4/90)
6. Tod und Verklärung (1991):
  1. Snow is so soft and deep … (5/8/91)
  2. May God help us … (9/8/91)
  3. It will be generally admitted … (9/8/91)
  4. Very soft shifting snow … (9/8/91)
7. Killing Time (1997):
  1. Killing Time (10/9-18/11/96)
8. Nightingale Fever (1996-99):
  1. Fever, nagging pain … (22/10/96-26/7/2000)
  2. A million ways … (31/12/98)
  3. I don’t have … (15/6/99)
9. Letter to Jackie-Anne (13/11/96-24/1/97)
10. Burn Old Diaries (30/11/96-27/6/2000)
11. Coda (15/12/96)
12. Waitakeres (28/6-9/11/97)
13. Unpardonable Sins (20/8-4/11/97)
14. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (3/10-8/11/97)
15. Rough Day on the Gulf (10-19/11/97)
16. A Dash of Bitters (10-19/11/97)
17. The Mooring of Starting Out (27/11-6/12/97)
18. Midnight Mass (26/12/97)
19. When the Sea Goes Mad at Night (1999/2000):
  1. Ashley Gorge (18-19/1/98)
  2. Travel Sonnets (1998):
    - 1 – On the Road (26/1/98)
    - 3 – In the Takaka Valley (30/1/98)
    - 4 – Sumner (2/2/98)
    - 6 – Bus (5/2/98)
    - 8 – Ghost (11/2/98)
  3. The Longest Day (22/12/98)
  4. Orpheus in the Bays (5/8/97-27/2/98)
20. Some More of Your Friends from Nevada (28/3/98)
21. Elegy: Miriel Kyle (1/4/98)
22. Meditation Exercise (5/5/98)
23. La Fille que j’ai abandonnée (6/5-9/7/98)
24. Aeroplane Poems (3-10/7/98)
25. Tips on Stress from Seddonville (9/7/98)
26. City Face (9/7/98)
27. In the Ngakawau Gorge (9/7/98)
28. Henry Fool (17/7-13/10/98)
29. A Previously Uncollected Posthumous Work of Bukowski (24/7/98)
30. M.C. (22/8/98)
31. NZ Writing: the NeXt Wave (22/8/98)
32. The Old School after Twenty Years (12/10/98)
33. The Road to Oratia (7/11/98-26/2/2000)
34. A Patina of the Antique (1998-99):
  1. Car Broken Down (4/12/98)
  2. Lean's Zhivago (30/4/99)
  3. The Information (4/12/98)
35. Like a Japanese Christmas Card (30/12/98)
36. Ohope at New Year (3/1/99)
37. An Appointment with Cortázar (6/2/99)
38. Christchurch Revisited (1999):
  1. Festival of Romance (9/2/99)
  2. Crossover Hits (9/2/99)
  3. The Vicar of Okains Bay (9/2/99)
  4. Last Morning (9/2/99)
39. Je donne à mon espoir (10/3/99)
40. The Imp of the Perverse (26/3/99)
41. APEC Weekend (30/7-4/8-14/9/99)

Poems: 2000-2004
1. from Tiger Country (2002)
  1. Poetry Weekend (28/3/98)
  2. Answers to Correspondence (11/3/99-10/3/01-26/10/01)
  3. On this day I complete my 36th year (6/11/98-21/3/2000)
  4. School (4/8/99)
  5. Late-Nite Movie at Wairau Park (10/1-19/9/98)
  6. Millennium Sermon (25/12/99-11/3/01)
  7. Signs & Portents (27/6, 29/3, 20/6, 13/7, 7/6 & 29/5-1/8/2000)
  8. Tron (6/4-17/5/01)
  9. Slave 4 U (15/11-9/12/01)
  10. Memories of Conan the Cimmerian (15/11-9/12/01)
  11. Corrugated Garage-doors in Gore St. (25/1-16/10/01)
  12. No-one gets on or off (12/2-18/5/01)
  13. Going In (9/11-9/12/01)
  14. Staying Out (9/11-9/12/01)
  15. Intoit (12/11-8/12/01)
  16. Subject: Urgent Assistance (7-9/9/02)
  17. E (27/4-17/5/01)
  18. Breast Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect Women (31/10-2/12/01)
  19. Last Night at the Party (29/6-19/10/01)
  20. Goodbye Love (10/1-22/3/01; 29/6/01; 9-11/9/01)
2. [with David Howard] A Photograph of the Poet (after Jorge Accamé) (4/2-13/2/2000)
3. The Kitset Love Poem (8-20/3/2000)
4. SH1 near Taupiri (19/10/2000)
5. vie littéraire (3/11/2000-29/3/01)
6. Tanlaw (16/12-19/12/2000)
7. from Messenger from Depth (2004):
  1. Anguttara Nikaya (for Olivia Macassey) (25/12/01)
  2. Invocation (27/12/01-19/4/02)
  3. Quiet Days in Cliché (for Olwyn Stewart) (24/11/01-9/2/02)
  4. Signs (15/1-25/5/02)
8. Bodily Rememberment (24/10-23/12/03)
9. from Hybrid Art (2002):
  1. When Friendship Kills (1/8-26/8/2000)
  2. Disco Inferno (4/3/99-26/8/2000)
10. South (2002):
  1. The Swimming-Pool Wedding (16-18/3/02)
  2. Twisted Pippie Café (17-18/3/02)
  3. South (17-19/3/02)
11. The Inorganic Collection (1/5/02-1/3/04)
12. Murder One (26/10-6/11/02)
13. The Existential Dracula (12/1-9/3/03)
14. Shock and Awe (24-26/3/03)
15. Season of the remakes … (2-3/4/03)
16. Towards Banks Peninsula (2003):
  1. The Summons (19/4-5/5/03)
  2. Searching for the Original (24/4-1/5/03)
17. Hitler-Junge Quex (5-7/7/03)
18. Death of a Computer (5-7/7/03)
19. Where Will Massey Take You? (12-13/7/03)
20. Six Days in Kuaotunu (12-26/12/03)
21. Before Exodus – The Elders (after Karl Wolfskehl) (17-21/2/04)
22. The All-Star Travelling Gameshow (4-14/3/04)
23. Cinema of Unease (15/4/-14/5/04)
24. Reviewer (5-23/5/04)
25. Speaking of … (24-26/5/04)

Poems: 2005-2009
1. from Roadworks: Auckland Geography (2006)
  1. Cruisy morning, eh? (8-19/8/03)
  2. We were Soldiers (20-21/4/02)
  3. Castor Bay (17-24/2/06)
  4. Such Manners (21-23/12/05)
  5. First Night (20-21/4/02)
  6. Cycle Couriers in Freyberg Place (17-25/2/06)
  7. The Kid Stays in the Picture (27-28/5/03)
  8. Every girl’s a babe (6-10/9/05)
2. Noughts and Crosses (17/12/04-7/2/05)
3. Sibylla (5/6-14/7/05)
4. Wang Po’s Preface to Poems from the Pavilion of the Prince of T’eng (16/10-4/11/05)
5. Funeral Sermon by the Shadow Spokesperson against PC (3-13/11/05)
6. As Long (7/4/06)
7. That hand (15-18/4/06)
8. Easter Ferry to Rakiura (24/4-20/5/06)
9. Eva (24/4-20/5/06)
10. Xmas (21-26/11/06)
11. Biggie Shark & Biggie Whale (14/2/07)
  1. Genesis (15/1/-8/2/07)
  2. Scripts (15/1/-8/2/07)
  3. Paisley (15/1-8/2/07)
  4. Kids at a Bus-stop (13/7-18/10/01)
12. Heroes: 3 Takes
  1. Rita (19/7/07)
  2. Kickstarting Your Research Career (7-20/6/07)
  3. Miniatures (7/2; 8/11; 16/7-9/11/06)
13. Volcanic Glass (3-13/3/08)
14. Vainglory (3-13/3/08)
15. from 31 Days (2009)
  1. One More Thing (3/4 & 8/9/09-22/7/10)
  2. Silhouette (4/4-18/6/09)
  3. Pale Star (K.M., 1923) (7/4-24/7/09)
  4. Foundry (8/4-20/9/09)
  5. Toys (China, 1908) (9/4-18/6/09)
  6. Memoirs from beyond the grave (13/4-15/11/09)
  7. Badges (15/4-15/11/09)
  8. Vampires (16/4/09, 8/9/09, 4/5/10-12/7/10)
  9. “Concern for Tony Veitch’s safety” (19/4/09)
  10. Orpheish (20/4-13/8/09)
  11. The Dada Lady of the Sonnets (21-23/4/09)
  12. Anzac Day (25/4-18/6/09)
  13. Argo (26/4-18/6/09)
  14. Before the Storm (29/4-15/11/09)

Poems: 2010-2015
1. from Celanie (2010)
  1. Lunch [after Lady Daibu & Lydia Ginzburg] (28/4-11/7/10)
  2. Mr Lennon [after Charles Darwin] (3/5-11/7/10)
  3. Maggie’s Farm [after Ian McEwan & Margaret Thatcher] (4/5-16/7/10)
  4. Badlands [after Jonathan Raban] (22/4-16/7/10)
2. Hamilton Stations of the Cross (23/4-7/5/11)
3. Britain's Missing Top Model (23-7/5/11)
4. Shorts:
  1. At the Magician's House (23/4-9/5/11)
  2. Destructive Element (3/2-9/5/11)
  3. Dollarton (8/2/11)
  4. Petition (8/2-9/5/11)
5. Cook on Easter Island (12-16/5/11)
6. Dark Night Reading in Titirangi (1/8/11)
7. Oracle Couplets (26/8-30/9/11)
8. Haiku:
  1. Shambling (7/9/11)
  2. CARIB 4WD (7/9/11)
  3. Peach blossom (12/10/11)
9. The Nightingale (after Marie de France) (31/10/11-14/1/12)
10. from Jueju (2013)
  1. Red Cliffs (after Su Shi) (6/9-17/10/13)
  2. Returning to Auckland after Dark (after Su Shi) (6/9-1/10/13)
  3. Spring Morning (after Li Qing Zhao) (6/9-1/10/13)
  4. Rural Life (after Xin Qi Ji) (6/9-1/10/13)
11. Wallace Stevens Meets the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (6/9-1/10/13)
12. The Counterfeiters (2-9/11/13)

Poems: 2016-2022
1. from Family Plot (2016)
  1. A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
  2. Drying Out the Bach (3/1/16-1/1/17)
  3. Bowie at Slane (12/1/16-13/7/17)
  4. A boy was drowned (13/1/16-13/7/17)
  5. 3,000 unopened emails (17/1/16-22/10/17)
  6. New Year (19/1/16-19/10/17)
  7. Gettysburg (20/1/16-22/10/17)
  8. Faith Hill (22/1/16-3/9/21)
  9. Time for an outing (23/1/16-19/10/17)
  10. We used some (24/1/16-22/10/17)
  11. Trump said (25/1/16-20/1/17)
  12. The new laptop (26/1/16-7/5/17)
  13. Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
2. from Canberra Tales (2016)
  1. 1948 (25/3-4/12/16)
  2. 1984 (24/3-4/12/16)
  3. 2016 (16/9-4/12/16)
3. Terrorist or theorist? (16/9-4/12/16)
4. The President of the Philippines (30/10-24/11/16)
5. Grenfell Tower Block Fire (15-21/6/17)
6. Feet splayed (6/7-19/10/17)
7. Christchurch, 15th March 2019 (19/3-14/4/19)
8. Just Like the Others (27-28/10/20)
9. Scurvy Grass (6/2-22/7/21)
10. The Gulf (for Michele) (25/3-4/9/21)
11. Stormy Weather (6/6-27/8/21)
12. Bus lanes (12/5-11/8/22)
13. No time but the present (for Paula Green) (24/5-7/10/22)
14. Insomnia. Homer. Reefed sails ... (after Mandelstam) (24-27/12/22)

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[120 poems]

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Dieter Riemenschneider, ed.: Wildes Licht: Gedichte aus Aotearoa Neuseeland (2010)

Translations

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).
- Ice Road Trucker (7/2-30/3/15) / Camionero sobre hielo [Spanish]
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.
- I ♥ NZ (11/2/99) / I ♥ NZ [Italian]
- The Darkness (23/4-18/6/09) / Il buio [Italian]

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