"A selection from the extraordinarily rich resource of poems, both published and unpublished, written about Dunedin"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.

Dunedin sonnet 6 / Rob Allan -- An aerial view from a rescue helicopter / Nick Ashcroft -- Going down / Caroline Barnes -- Dunedin revisited; Letter to Robert Burns; A small ode on mixed flatting; Brighton / James K. Baxter -- Pride of the south / Tony Beyer -- Portobello town / R. Blick -- Dunedin from the bay / Thomas Bracken -- Home ground / Charles Brasch -- Dunedin morning / Karen Peterson Butterworth -- The Soldiers' Monument, Otago Peninsula / D.W. Carmalt-Jones -- Drizzle; Return trip; Stuart Street / Kay McKenzie Cooke -- Josephine / Tremayne Curnow -- The statue of Robbie Burns; In the university library; Saturday afternoon / Ruth Dallas -- The sun chanced upon Dunedin / Harriet Dempsey -- Dunedin in July; Spring afternoon, Dunedin / Lauris Edmond -- Broad Bay / Kim Eggleston -- If Buccleugh Street could talk; Winter: a burlesque; A prospect of Port Chalmers / David Eggleton -- Anne Brown's song / Fiona Farrell -- Dunedin morning; Sunday afternoon at two o'clock; The clock tower; The spell / Janet Frame -- Dunedin / Gaylene -- Spring in Dunedin / Pamela Gordon -- Lacework / Bernadette Hall -- Dunedin / Edith Howes -- Two winter settings (extract) / Sam Hunt -- Mid winter letter from Dunedin; Ghost in the shell / Elizabeth Isichei -- Carrying my mother's ashes back to Dunedin / Adrienne Jansen -- At Ross Creek reservoir / David Karena-Holmes -- Pine Hill or elsewhere / Kapka Kassabova -- Beneath the rim / Helen Leach -- Second storey room / Jessica Le Bas -- Civic Plaza / Graham Lindsay -- The entrance to purgatory. Distances; Proposal at Allans Beach / Iain Lonie -- Dunedin summer / Jean Lonie.

Visions of Dundas Street through student-coloured glasses / Hamish McKenzie -- Up and up / Pansy McLachlan -- By a bird; The mess we made at Port Chalmers; Fuse; Outside the Portobello Marine Aquarium;From the flounder Inn / Cilla Mc Queen -- Picnic at Woodhaugh / Bill Manhire -- Contact / Emma Neale -- The water of Leith. Jazz at the Robbie Burns / James Norcliffe -- For G. O'Brien, painter, 1821-1888 / Gregory O'Brien -- Port Chalmers / John O'Connor -- Rhododendron dell / June O'Donnell -- Shades of spring; Revisiting V8 nostalgia; Morning picture of South Dunedin / Peter Olds -- Dunedin postcard / Chris Orsman -- Southern rococo / Sue Patterson -- Quarantine / Ruth Pettis -- Paradise / Christina Phoenix -- Boy racers; The divided country / Mark Pirie -- Talking about Tomahawk / Jenny Powell-Chalmers -- Visit to Nicky's house / Joanna Preston -- Northern Cemetery; Victory Beach / Richard Reeve -- Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin, with Tom / Harry Ricketts -- A poem, dedicated to the Mornington Fire Brigade / George Scott -- Being here; Dunedin spleen; Burns / Bill Sewell -- from Martha's song / Janette Sinclair -- Dunedin / Elizabeth Smither -- Dunedin / C.K. Stead -- Cosy Dell / William M. Stenhouse -- A tricky business; New Year's Eve / J.C. Sturm -- Winter, Ross Creek / Bernard Thornton -- In the Northern Cemetery; From Bracken's Lookout, Dunedin. Otago Peninsula; Training on the peninsula / Brian Turner -- Prodigal city; Song to a swinging comtemplative: Dunedin / Hone Tuwhare --

from Pathway to the sea / Ian Wedde -- Purakaunui / Michael Wiltshire -- Kilmog Hill / Alison Wong -- Magnetic south. Resisting the temptation to nibble her nose / Sue Wootton.

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