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Allen Curnow was a New Zealand poet who worked for the Christchurch Sun before preparing for the Anglican ministry and publishing his first poems. They appeared in university periodicals. His poems mainly concern new Zealand and the isolation of living in an island country. Other broader themes include fear, guilt, rage, and nature. He won the A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1992.
‘You Will Know When You Get There’ by Allen Curnow embraces the inevitability of death via the figurative imagery of a descent into the sea.
Nobody comes up from the sea as late as this
in the day and the season, and nobody else goes down
the last steep kilometre, wet-metalled where
a shower passed shredding the light which keeps
‘Time’ by Allen Curnow is a highly relatable poem that depicts time through a series of metaphors that personify it.
I am the nor-west air among the pines
I am the water-race and the rust on railway lines
I am the mileage recorded on the yellow signs.
I am dust, I am distance, I am lupins back of the beach
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