Notes

1. Praise: The poet returns to New York -- The letter from Rilke -- A sixty-year-old frowning private man -- Well it's been a week blues -- Ancient mariner in Avondale -- Mister Wat -- Haiku for Mishima -- Conversation with my uncle -- Kiss the impossible good night -- Here I give thanks to modernism -- The poet in Hamilton. Nonsense: Forty-two boxes -- A train wreck in the universe. Blues: Romantics in search of adventures with music -- Matakitaki, 1822 -- Clown on skates -- Difficult for gauchos to kiss when wearing hats -- Accentuate the negative -- Road song -- Taranaki journey - Digging for Kitchener -- Tongatapu dream choruses -- In the purple mists of last evening -- With Jean-Paul Sartre on the banks of the Waikato. Pop: Painter looking at painting -- National standards -- Snap snap -- So-so street ( a soliloquy) -- Swing your tiger -- Pablo the cat -- So says Tina -- Good looking -- Cobber's song : 'sixty swinging years' -- Shantih shanty 1. Praise: The poet returns to New York -- The letter from Rilke -- "Shaggy Magpie Songs is a celebration of poetry's potential - for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts - Praise, Nonsense, Blues and Pop - the poems are at times jazzy and rollicking, at other times crooningly melancholic"--Publisher information