Poetry Specials

Bronwyn Lloyd: Pania Press Archive (2006-2016)

Poetry Specials
2008-2026

1. (November 6, 2008) Minotaur. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2008)







2. ((November 23, 2008) Je donne à mon espoir. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2008)







3. (February 12, 2009) Volcanic Glass. Pottery by Len Castle (Napier: Mountain to the Sea Exhibition, 2008)







4. (May 27, 2009) Poets at Seven Years Old. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2009)







5. (December 25, 2009) Silhouette. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2009)







6. (January 18, 2011) Pale Star. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







7. (October 9, 2011) Lounge Room Tribalism. Collage by Graham Fletcher. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







8. (December 25, 2011) Britain’s Missing Top Model. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







9. (July 13, 2012) Except Once. Painting by Kirsty Black. (Howick: Korero Exhibition, 2012).







10. (August 22, 2014) Jay Checks His Father into a Home. Design by Phantom Billstickers (Auckland Library: Poetry on Posters Programme, 2014)







11. (August 28, 2015) Ice Road Trucker. Design by Daniel Fyles (Ashhurst: Fyles Web Design, 2015)







12. (December 25, 2015) Antigone. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2015)







13. (December 25, 2016) 1942. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2016)







14. (August 25, 2017) Canberra Tales. Design by Dianne Firth (University of Canberra: Poetry and Place Exhibition, 2017)







15. (November 6, 2017) Rather a shock. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)







16. (December 25, 2017) Time for an outing. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)







17. (November 6, 2018) Malinche Dreams. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2018)







18. (November 6, 2022) Scurvy Grass. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland, 2022)







19. (October 5, 2024) Unpopular Mechanics. Room-sheet for Emma Smith's exhbition The Municipal Gardens (Auckland: the waiting room, 2024)







20. (November 14, 2024) BECN. Design by Roseanne Bartley, Love Letters and Other Correspondences (Melbourne: Press Print, 2024)







21. (April 18, 2026) Reading Cold Mountain in interesting times. Programme for Emma Smith's exhbition Deadmans Block (Auckland: New Lynn Community Centre, 2026)

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BECN (2024)

Roseanne Bartley: Love Letters and Other Correspondences (2024)

(November 14, 2024) [with Bronwyn Lloyd] “U.” Love Letters and Other Correspondences: An Artist Curated Book by Roseanne Bartley. ISBN 978-0-646-89402-7. Melbourne: Press Print, 2024: 61.

U


Until recently, I was unaware that my husband Jack had been sampling from our conversations over a period of 101 days. These samplings were part of a low-stakes exercise designed to unblock his creative writing practice through the simple task of committing to writing one poem a day.

Jack presented me with the drafts of the 25 poems from the group that featured things I'd said or done, and reading them, I was struck by the "un"ness of some of my exchanges with him.

The unromantic way I threatened (in jest) to 'put him out to grass' if he continued to forget things, The unkindness of a remark (in jest) that I'd had enough of his shit and was leaving him. But the "un" that surprised me most related to several poems where I made comments about his softness, his unmanliness, culminating in the poem BECN about a gift I bought Jack last year:

BECN

Bronwyn gave me a necklace 
made by Renee Bevan 
for my birthday

or perhaps a necklet
If you think it’s unmanly 
you can wear it under your shirt

I thought it’d be bigger somehow
like dog-tags
a small lozenge made of silver

on the front it says
BE
on the back

CN
be seen?
beacon?

it seems to be saying
something about 
not hiding your light

under a bushel
quite fitting from the creator of
wearing the world like a pearl

I wear it with pride

(9/12/22-5/7/23)

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You see, Jack's "unmanliness" is the thing I love about him the mmost, from the moment I first saw him cross the floor of the wharenui at Te Rau Aroha Marae wearing his striped winceyette pyjamas, buttoned to the throat.

May his unmanliness continue to shine like beacon our whole lives through.

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Renee Bevan: The World is a Giant Pearl
[Photograph: Caryline Boreham]

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Roseanne Bartley: Radiant Pavilion (2024)

Unpopular Mechanics (2024)

Emma Smith: Living with Caves (2024)

(5-6 October, 2024) Emma Smith: The Municipal Gardens. Auckland: The Waiting Room, 2024.

Unpopular Mechanics:
Crossing Auckland for Emma Smith

Relying on Kylie the GPS voice
to route us round the roadworks 
at the entrance we drove into 
the campus found a parking place 
no payment needed after 4 pm 
walked over to the exhibition space 
past the table of refreshments quite 
a spread wine fruit-juice grapes chips 
dips then into the high L-shaped 
room

     Emma was around the bend 
three paintings on one wall the 
other facing them grey roiling clouds 
a few brave emblems flapping in 
the wind like shards of Pharaoh’s 
army drowned in the Red Sea 
caught as a Renaissance painter might
if they wanted to display their 
dexterity

         then after a few words 
with Emma handing her a book 
for Will my erstwhile publisher we 
went out past the kids walked 
over to the car and drove 
off on our way back home 
two hours from go to woe 
on the way out I waited 
for the red light for right-turning 
traffic rather than the free left 
turn

(7-9/9/24)

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Emma Smith: Even though you have lost your horse, don't pursue it
[oil on canvas] (2011)

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Tin Grew: Emma Smith (2011)