"Green Wood—White Wood"

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

"Green Wood—White Wood"

" has made the two a P r »n ci Pal Poems in Mr. wl? XY?° r V* " Green Wood— t^e subject of an article. These two highly-original and striking poems somewhat overshadow tho others in the volume; in his •hotter versos Mr. Cork U more conventlonal. He is, however, a poet always worth reading. with a point of view of his. own, nnd that New Zen land individuality which is a mark of the younger generation. The title of thin book l» tliken from a remark l»y a young sister poet. Rohin Hyde, that "there's a green wood and a white wood in your poetry," and it in apt in a special an wall as a general sense, for nothing

interests Mr. Cork more than trees. He loves and understands them, and again and again they raise their beauty in his verse. He is a representative New /ealander awakened to appreciation of his native heritage and trying to make "l> for generations of destruction and neglect. His New Zealand trees place their own history by that of newcomers. '«,? I? 11 "* *** »■'«> kntde Tho v J.i P w " .1 . ' had bejma. Jo tlirust riie forest floor aaMe. And at the end „f the poem tl.ev whisper to pine and poplar, willow and ,Hkp tllp garden, the park and the lane and leave to them the hills H flfl wild fl flfl WHstv p1f1C69," The book is published in attractive format by A. H. and A. W. Reed Dunedin and Wellington. '