Last poems
Auckland : The Holloway Press, 2002. Octavo, lettered wrappers, portrait frontispiece, pp. 48, printed letterpress. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Designed, printed and bound by Tara McLeod at The Holloway Press, University of Auckland.
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