Doubtless : new & selected poems / Sam Hunt.

Poetry.

pt. I. Doubtless -- pt. II. Arapaoa. Tree poem. Normal enough. Missing you. He was one of the last. Snap/shot. As we speak. Whose turn is it?. Poem on Meg's death. I throw you flowers. Sunset song. No bells. Patron saint song. What takes your fancy. Cloud song. Jimmy Vernon. Sonata. Better than this?. Talking of the weather. Lugging the sack -- pt. III. Lines for a new year -- Selected poems : A new plateau song. Why a man. Fire, as always. Old flames. Hey, Minstrel. Working the Genesis week. Making it back in. Harpooner's song. Floating poem. Fucking poem. There isn't a river. That's it. Naming the gods. Coming to it. Four plateau songs. October in the bay. Patea 1983. After separation. Beyond the brink. Seven years. Hilary. Rainbows, and a promise of snow. Not in this weather. Sara. Four Manly verses. It's rain today in Sydney. Wave song. Catching the tide. Brother Lynch. Harold Saunders, boatbuilder, Tory Channel. Running scared . You house the moon. After words. Words for Tina. Maintrunk country road song. My father today. Birth of a sun. Four bow-wow poems. Returned serviceman. Ancient taupata, Bottle Creek. A purple balloon. What a pity. That feeling-of-being-in-the-country. Back Beach, Castor Bay. Every time it rains like this. Rangitikei river song. Lisa from Manjimup. Of Dan and the peacock. Photograph of Robin in war-paint. Dead bird. Bottle to Battle to Death. Death in the street. War history. New words. Wedding party and after. I wonder what the old man is thinking?. Six summer sestets. School policy on stickmen. Time to ride. Making tracks. We could just disappear. Letter home. Flutemaker. My white ship. Homecoming. Invocation in Equinox. Singing for you now. Plea before storm. At Castor Bay. A white gentian. A song about her. July 21 1969. Somewhere near here; many miles. Porirua friday night. A summer poem. A Bottle Creek blues. A hot-water bottle baby blues. My father scything. Return in Spring. Postcard of a cabbage tree. Before the demolitions. Smash. Her words on leaving. A school report. Saturday palm sunday. A valley called Moonshine. A Mangaweka road song. Beware the man. Walking the morning city. Post office report. A house north near mangroves. August steam. A wind of wolves. Collision. Roadsong Paekakariki. Four cobweb poems. Bracken country. After sickness. Lyn. Modigliani girl. Just like that!. Notes from a journey. Early opener. Stabat mater. Himatangi. A long time. The windows of our morning. Black cattle at dawn, Waiura. Your ultimate accountant. Christina. Liz. Up Battle Hill. River woman songs. Friend to many. Two winter settings. Ana gathering cones on Battle Hill. Girl with black eye in grocer's shop. Words on a first waking. Those eyes; such mist. Four songs. No exit. Wagoning, up Moonshine. Sailor's morning. Salt man. Return to Drunken Bay. Return to Rangitoto. Song for Tom. West Coast woman. Arthur Allan Thomas. Death of the poet preacherman. April Fool. Requiem. A dedication. Foreign hotel. Spider song. The man on the sandtrack said. Tora wind song. What dandelions think. Yellow. Bone flute. Passing through. September 1st. Clearing the ashes out. Why I smoke 'Pocket Edition'. We are nearly neighbours. Waikato river song. Glimpse. Oterei rivermouth.

Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. Doubtless is a collection of his newest work and also some of his older poems.