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Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory OÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBrien is a poet, anthologist, art writer and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland before returning to study art history and English at Auckland University. In ...Show more
Beauties of the Octagonal Pool by O'Brien Gregory
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory O'Brien's first collection of poems since Afternoon of an Evening Train (2005), Beauties of the Octagonal Pool is centred on the 'octagonal pool' of the Waitemata Harbour. In an eight-armed embrace, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool collects poems written from and out of a variety of times, locatio ...Show more
Big Weather : Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien (editor), Louise St John (editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Description: Capturing the vivacity and diversity of the capital, this poetic portrait is a celebration of Wellington and the creative life it inspires. Beginning with the inner city and harbour, the 100 poems move into the suburbs and parks, before heading to outer areas - and into the twenty-first cen ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$89.99 NZD
Category: Art
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
Pat Hanly by Gregory O'Brien
$149.99 NZD
$175.00 (14% off)
Category: Art | Reading Level: New
A magnificent colourful monograph from the series of major New Zealnd artists by Ron Sang Publications. Over a career spanning four decades, Pat Hanly proposed a new manner of looking at New Zealand - the land and its people. His art heralded new ways of thinking about this country - as a nation that b ...Show more
See What I can See - New Zealand Photography for the Young & Curious by Gregory O'Brien
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Photography was invented the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Within a few years, cameras were charting the life and times of people at this end of the planet. See What I Can See is a celebration of the camera - the New Zealand that it captured, and the artists who wielded it. See What I C ...Show more
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
$34.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more
Whale Years by O'Brien Gregory
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'Two poets on a headland, mid-survey / might pause suddenly and say / will this be your whale, or mine?' Between 2011 and 2014, poet and artist Gregory O'Brien found himself following the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in work that O'Brie ...Show more
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