Broadsheets

These two attractive broadsheets, the first with a cover design by Colin McCahon, printed by the Griffin Press, Christchurch, mark a necessary development in New Zealand poetry. There must be room and opportunity for unestablished poets to bring their work before the public, and this is provided suitably by use of the broadsheet. John Caselberg’s gentle and lyrical poetry at its best approaches the quality of Alistair Campbell.

J.M. Thomson displays a fresh and original symbolism nearest perhaps in spirit to modern Greek poetry. Any reader with a fondness for unpolemical and imaginative verse would be well advised to buy these two broadsheets. The magnificent study by Colin McCahon which introduces John Caselberg’s sequence is something to be treasured, also. One hopes to see another issue soon.

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