Moonlight : New Zealand poems on death and dying / edited by Andrew Johnston.

Foreward / Mary Schumacher -- Introduction / Andrew Johnston -- The poems : Moonlight / Bill Manhire. Winter solstice light / Dinah Hawken. Elegy for a grandparent / Brian Turner. Dear Heart / Michele Leggott. Rain on the roof / Janet Frame. Goldfish / Vivienne Plumb. He poroporoaki / J. C. Sturm. The end / Janet Frame. An attempt to prevent the death of an old woman / Glenn Colquhoun. Labour weekend 1981 / Cilla McQueen. Avalanche / Vivienne Plumb. To death / Ian Wedde. Elegy / C. K. Stead. Pastoral / Jenny Bornholdt. Things we didn't do one summer - a survey / Jenny Bornholdt. Where I went / Gregory O'Brien. Tea mind / Janet Charman. Cancer ward / Bernadette Hall. A spell to be cast prior to dying ; An examination of her body after death / Glenn Colquhoun. Whispers / Geoff Cochrane. Socks and boots can be very difficult / Jenny Bornholdt. Effects / Geoff Cochrane. Before a funeral / Lauris Edmond. The death of old women / Elizabeth Smither. Elegy / Vincent O'Sullivan. A cortège of daughters / Elizabeth Smither. My father today / Sam Hunt. Burial fragments ; from Tomahawk Sonnets: i / Bernadette Hall. Elegy for Peter Hooper / Brian Turner. Sandwiches / Elizabeth Smither. A fall of rain at Mitimiti: Hokianga / Hone Tuwhare. Tangi at Mitimiti / Cilla McQueen. Tangi / Hone Tuwhare. Tangi / James K. Baxter. Amica / Bernadette Hall. On the death of Charles Brasch / Joanna Margaret Paul. Joanna / Cilla McQueen. Sestina of the River Road / James K. Baxter. Heemi / Hone Tuwhare. Grieving, 1972 ; Urgently / J. C. Sturm. Ron Mason / Hone Tuwhare. Brooch / Emma Neale. Voyager / Murray Edmond. Lacrimosa / Anne Kennedy. Her friend who is dying / Dinah Hawken. On the death of my grandmother / Glenn Colquhoun. Opoutere / Bill Manhire. Seven mysteries ; Luck ; Matukituki / Michael Jackson. The jersey / Jenny Bornholdt. Kevin / Bill Manhire. The dead / Janet Frame. After / Brian Turner. The suicides ; The turquoise bird / Janet Frame. Omoka / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. In memory of my parents / Elizabeth Smither. Snow falling / Bernadette Hall. Erebus voices / Bill Manhire. Frost / Cilla McQueen. Untitled / J. C. Sturm.

Anthology.

Includes index.