N.Z. BEST POEMS OF 1934

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 24

N.Z. BEST POEMS OF 1934

'•'-'The^'interest.'groused v fby^;shev^New Zealand :p«it;;Epems''■series/: t;an -annuaj ■a^Hol<^^boganl!in':,l932^' :, !wlH;£ ;be j^he current ( ;y£ar % I>jLscussing the jfirst ■ a 'southern jcritip" ex? ■pressed;doubts 'as to;,wheth.er | the, standard then achieved could be maintained n^a'doubt iwhich|-.as'te^adlnitted;.^ras rembyed;by;the 1933^Volume.;;? At least, 'the; yoiunie iinder^jno'tiee'measuresMup .gallantly'; to' its '"predecessors.' i;.' Qbyiouslyi'ithe?'pbems;: h'aye; vbeen ; :ielebted ;wi&"care U;The besit Ipi them ; _set a.', new, markjVconfirining the editorial qpinion that our /Mg : 'poe.ts^.are^pfoducinjfi/wflrkC--.:6f,V-B Ticher' <and:sd4feper''poetier^^^ ever. : ■ Therei'iS'less jdalliaice,';>with merely; ephemeralVthings^ and,-^^ a.inbre -of ;oif well-defined impbrt..: :;It can -in 'fairness jsaid;'pf^the; ,1934^ anthology, that/it "contains nothing, r that is deinonstrably 'trivial-'or empty./;: Withl^one pr';twd 'exceptionsyNew Zealandjs leadingi^yTiters .'areiTepresented. :. >/ ; These';rinclude'.!Boßin Hydey whose .work.shows: increasing.indiyiduality/. Eileen Duggan, whose; '/Invasionl' strikes a ■ strorig;<;New;.Zealand { note, '.C^ABeajjlehole,l Arnold Wall, .Eve '; Langleyy '' Jesiid Mackay, ;D6rat^Hagenmey^r/-^Md} : v'iPJ^'>A'lexa Steyeflsi'who-ha's'dono nothing superior ■to ''Earth-bound;'' .Three^bf:'^the 'cq'n/tributors'.live;Jp i y^rsea's^^ne'in'Ca.li£6r-"nia,-.one;in NewJ'Tork.-and' a third at ,Oxfqrdrrtempbrafilyv ' The Best toems geries,. which, is; published by H. H. Tbmbs.ijlitd.yisvneat'rJand dignified in ;;format. : ■■.-;,;. ;>T.::-"GT aous.-;*;'; ■ • -