TY - BOOK AU - Barrowman, Fergus, TI - A game of two halves: the best of Sport 2005-2019 SN - 9781776564316 AV - PR9648 .G364 2021 U1 - 820.8003 23 PY - 2021///. CY - Wellington, New Zealand : PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press, KW - New Zealand literature KW - 21st century KW - fast N1 - The kiss ; Andy-don't keep your distance / Pip Adam -- Daughter / Michele Amas -- from Getting there: an autobiography / Barbara Anderson -- White saris / Angela Andrews -- Idiots / Jane Arthur -- Summer's necrologue / Nick Ascroft -- Hungry / Morgan Bach -- The details of her nightmares / Hinemoana Baker -- Christmas morning / Antonia Bale -- Robin Dudding 1935-2008 / Fergus Barrowman -- Self-portrait 4 / David Beach -- Bug week ; A nice night / Airini Beautrais -- I'll never get a poem from this neighborhood / Miro Bilbrough -- Oh, Abraham Lincoln, kiss me harder / Hera Lindsay Bird -- Medical ; It has been a long time since I last spoke to you so here I am / Jenny Bornholdt -- Broken / William Brandt -- Jeff Mangum / Amy Brown -- What the very old man told me ; The pitfalls of poetry / James Brown -- Fifth grade time capsule / Stephanie Burt - Thought horses ; 'all my feelings would have been of common things' / Rachel Bush - Late to my appointment ... / Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle - Snow White's coffin / Kate Camp - Descent from Avalanche / Eleanor Catton / The last of Bashō ; The Great Wall Café / Geoff Cochrane -- from The cowboy dog / Nigel Cox - To all the boys I've loved before / Vanessa Crofskey - How to live by the sea / Lynn Davidson - Haiku / Uther Dean - Kissing Terry in the rain / Esther Dischereit - Letter / Kate Duignan - A lonely road / Breton Dukes - Youth / Jenny Erpenbeck - Woolshed blues / Cliff Fell - Wake / Joan Fleming - After reading an anthology / Robert Gernhardt - Early / Paula Green - Really & truly / Bernadette Hall - Glass glitters better than diamond under such splintered light / Rebecca Hawkes - The owners / Helen Heath - The pests / Zoe Higgins -Sweet on the comedown / Emma Hislop - The garage party / Nadine Anne Hura - hot bodies / Ash Davida Jane - The otorhinolaryngologist ; Saudade / Andrew Johnston - Flood / Hannah Jolly - The inertia poem / Erik Kennedy -- Tata Beach, New Year's Eve, 1974 / Elizabeth Knox - Fair copy / Michael Krüger - Tentatively joined / Chloe Lane - Bonsense ; Artificial intelligence - Qiong ren dian, fu ren dian / Rose Lu - An Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman walk into a Pā / Tina Makereti - From an imaginary notebook ; The schoolbus ; The question poem / Bill Manhire - Dog farm, food game / Eamon Marra - Clean hands save lives / Kirsten McDougall - The harmonious development of man / Aorewa McLeod - Fatigue ; Rope / Maria McMillan - Sex dream / Hannah Mettner -First / Fardowsa Mohamed - How far from earth / Clare Moleta; Pain / Stephanie de Montalk - The gold day has dimmed / Elizabeth Nannestad - Unlove / Emma Neale - Rotational head injury / Bill Nelson - I love you? / Mikaela Nyman & Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen - Early morning on the Sand-walk, Down House, March 1857 / Claire Orchard - When in Rome / Vincent O'Sullivan - In search of X / Cate Palmer - The road to Tokomairiro / Lawrence Patchett - Song of la chouette / Chris Price - cough in / essa may ranapiri - The life and deaths of Adeline Snow / Melissa Day Reid - Noddy / Harry Ricketts - Pool noodle / Freya Daly Sadgrove - A new body / Frances Samuel - Sisters / Maria Samuela - when the barber talks about elephants / Kerrin P Sharpe - I am a man of many professions, my wife is a lady of many confessions / Charlotte Simmonds - Cicada motel / Tracey Slaughter - no horse / Marty Smith - Six feet for a single, eight for a double / Ruby Solly - Real life / John Summers - Leaves / Anna Taylor - Brothers blind / Sylvan Thomson - Kuki the Krazy Kea / Tane Thomson - Diary of a (l)it girl or, Frankenstein's ghost pig - Badly written men / Giovanni Tiso - Mount Eden / Steve Toussaint - Infernally yours, gentleman poet in the streets - raging homosexual in the sheets / Chris Tse - Department of Immigration ; New transgender block busters / Oscar Upperton -- Asylum notes / Rae Varcoe - Haunted sestina / Catherine Vidler - The feijoas are falling from the trees / Louise Wallace - The world of children's books ; Memoir, with electrodes / Damien Wilkins - I'm out for dead presidents to represent me / Faith Wilson - to the kreisau dogs ; postscript to the kreisau dogs - Arthritis the elephant / Sonja Yelich - She cannot work ; Editors on the storm / Ashleigh Young - Hokusai on the shore / Fay Zwicky Fay Zwicky N2 - "This book looks back through the fifteen issues of Sport from 2005 to 2019. In 600 pages it presents fiction, poetry, essays and oddities by 100 of our best writers, from leading lights like Bill Manhire, Ashleigh Young and Elizabeth Knox, to emerging glow worms like Tayi Tibble, Ruby Solly and Eamonn Marra"--Back cover ER -