ADVICE TO WIVES [1940] Anon.
Ladies who wish to keep their spouses
content and happy in their houses,
must learn that food, to be a blessing,
must not be ruined in the dressing.
It’s very nice to be good looking,
but that will not excuse bad cooking:
and men have got such funny natures,
they’ll judge you by the beef and ’taters.
So if you want to rule and lead them,
you’ll do it if you nicely feed them.
This ladle was made in the 1980s by Levi Borgstrom (1923–2001) who learned to whittle in Sweden; he was born just outside the Arctic Circle where Lapp culture is strong. He moved to New Zealand in 1951 and settled in Titirangi south-west of Auckland. Over the years, Borgstrom carved many beautiful wooden spoons and ladles from N.Z. indigenous and exotic trees.
Who's in it
The anthology includes poems from the list of poets below. We do have one poem by Anon.: Advice to Wives. Copyright permissions are detailed under Acknowledgements in the back pages of ''Poems from the pantry'. Permission to publish these poems has been graciously granted free of charge with the proviso that any profit from the sale of this book be donated to a food charity.
Fleur Adcock; R.W.W. Alexander; Charles Alldritt; Rewi Alley; Catherine Amey; Mary-Jane Ansell; Arani; Rita Atkinson; Justin Aubrey; K.O. Arvidson; Stu Bagby; Robert J. Bakewell; Caroline Barnes; James K. Baxter; Eric Beach; Patricia Bell; Tony Beyer; Helen Blackshaw; Peter Bland; Thomas Bracken; Jan Bradley; Charles Brasch; Betty Bremner; Jane Brimblecombe; Frederick N. Broome; Victoria Broome; Diane Brown; Frederick Bull; Alistair Te Ariki Campbell;
Rosalie L. Carey; Lynda Chanwai-Earle; Janet Charman; Walter Charman; Christina Conrad; Tiki Cootes; Allen Curnow; Wystan Curnow; Ruth Dallas; Piers Davies; Mike Doyle; Eileen Duggan; Peggy Dunstan; Amanda Eason; Lauris Edmond; Murray Edmond; David Eggleton; Riemke Ensing;
Margaret Escott; Esteban Espinoza; A.R.D. Fairburn; Fiona Farrell;
Dugald Ferguson; Janet Frame; Ross Fraser; Anne French; Bernard Gadd;
Ann Galloway; Ruth Gilbert; Denis Glover; Kathleen Grattan; Paula Green; William Hart-Smith; Dinah Hawken; William C. Hodgson; Peter Hooper;
Sam Hunt; Robin Hyde; Witi Ihimaera; Kevin Ireland; Kai Jensen; Louis Johnson; M.K. Joseph; Vivienne Joseph; Jan Kemp; Anne Kennedy; Fiona Kidman;
Betty Knell; Hinewirangi Kohu; Nadine Lahatte; Leonard Lambert; Gary Langford; Will Lawson; Owen Leeming; Michele Leggott; J. Liddell Kelly; Graham Lindsay; Clive Litt; Alan Loney; Iain Lonie; Jean Lonie; Judith Lonie;
D.S. Long; Jan McAllum; Rachel McAlpine; Sen McGlinn; Joy Mackenzie;
Frank McKay; Jessie Mackay; Joan McLean; Catherine C. McLeod;
Cilla McQueen; Bill Manhire; Katherine Mansfield; Harold Marshall;
Theresia L. Marshall; R.A.K. Mason; Rosemary Menzies; Trixie Te Arama Menzies; Barry Mitcalfe; Barry Morrall; Elizabeth Nannestad; John Newton; James Norcliffe; Vincent O'Sullivan; Peter Olds; Alistair Paterson;
Michele D. Paterson; Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan; Peter Payne; Roma Pōtiki;
Marie R. Randle; Gloria Rawlinson; Ron Riddell; Jonathan Scott; Bill Sewell;
Iain Sharp; Keith Sinclair; William Skey; Hugh Smith; Elizabeth Smither; Kendrick Smithyman; Margaret T. South; C.K. Stead; Edgar C. Studholme; Robert Sullivan; André Surridge; Apirana Taylor; Paul Thompson;
Robert Thompson; Denys Trussell; Brian Turner; Hone Tuwhare;
Pati (Albert) Umaga; Jenny Vuglar; Raymond Ward; Ian Wedde; Albert Wendt; Damien Wilkins; George P. Williams; Haare Williams; Anne Glenny Wilson; Johanna Woods; David McKee Wright; Sonja Yelich.
Some poets, or their literary executors, couldn’t be traced. They include
Charles Alldritt; Arani; K.O. Arvidson; Rita Atkinson; Jan Bradley; Tiki Cootes; Peggy Dunstan; Ruth Gilbert; William Hart-Smith; Betty Knell; Jan McAllum; Joan McLean; Catherine C. McLeod; Theresia L. Marshall; Rosemary Menzies; Barry Mitcalfe; Barry Morrall; Michele D. Paterson; Peter Payne; Gloria Rawlinson; Bill Sewell; Robert Thompson; Johanna Woods.
Any contact information would be most welcome.