WORD RIOT PRESS(c) Stephen Oliver, 2003Books by Stephen OliverHenwise (1975)& Interviews (1978)Autumn Songs (1978)Letter To James K. Baxter (1980)Earthbound Mirrors (1984)Guardians, Not Angels (1993)Islands of Wilderness - A Romance (1996)Unmanned (1999)Election Year Blues (1999)Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978 - 2000 (2001)Deadly Pollen (2003)Ballads, Satire & Salt (2003)RecordingsEarthbound Mirrors, a selection, Stephen Oliver,Ode Records Label, Auckland, (cassette) 1984For more information on Stephen Oliver visit:http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/Cover design: Pina Ricciu.Cover image: The Lithuanian Bison,engraving from J. von Brincken, 1828.Acknowledgements: Antipodes (USA), Biff’s Quarterly (USA), Brief (NZ),Catalyzer Journal (USA), Comet Magazine (San Francisco), JAAM (NZ),Poetry NZ/26 featured poet, San Francisco Salvo, Spreadhead (USA),Thylazine (Aust).An Actual Encounter With the Sun On / My Balcony At France Street: aparody on Frank O’Hara’s ‘A True Account Of Talking / To The Sun AtFire Island’ who in turn based his account on Mayakovsky’s more robustpoem, ‘A Most Extraordinary Adventure’. POETS’ PALACE: a name given bythe author to an old Kauri, weatherboard guest house in France Street(the upper story of which he occupied in the early ’80s) near theprostitute’s strip off K’rd, Auckland. Various ‘emerging’ poets &artists lived downstairs at intervals during this period. As the lastof its kind in Newton Gully this 100 year old wooden building wasfinally demolished at the close of the decade.Deadly Pollen is published byWord Riot PressPO Box 414Middletown, NJ 07748USAhttp://www.wordriot.org/pressISBN 0-9728200-2-7Typeset by Word Riot Press in Bembo