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Radical carrot, upside down parrot, Gregory O’Brien
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869408930 Finding Frances Hodgkins Mary Kisler Massey University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780995102972 You reach a certain age and your favourite artists and writers start invading…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Catherine Hammond, Frances Hodgkins, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 128, Mary Kisler, Massey University Press, Summer 2019
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Mystery, wisdom and complication, Gregory O’Brien
The Lives of Coat Hangers Sudesh Mishra University of Otago Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927322376 “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not.” I was reminded of American sculptor Carl Andre’s words, as I read Sudesh Mishra’s remarkable…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 115, Spring 2016, Sudesh Mishra, University of Otago Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Obituary — Campbell Smith
The world a stage Gregory O’Brien recalls the life and work of artist and writer Campbell Smith (1925-2015) The last time I saw Campbell Smith was in June a year ago. Friends from around the country had gathered at Hamilton’s…
Moments of transcendence, Elizabeth Crayford
Otherwise John Dennison Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781869408282 The Art of Excavation Leilani Tamu Anahera Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473290047 Whale Years Gregory O’Brien Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869408329 The cover of John Dennison’s Otherwise features a photograph of…
Tagged with: Anahera Press, Auckland University Pres, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 110, John Dennison, Leilani Tamu, Winter 2015
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Fireflies in the twilight, Gregory O’Brien
Painter and poet Gregory O’Brien reflects on Jean Arp’s Collected French Writings. i was born in nature … i have four natures. i have two things. i have five senses. sense and non-sense. nature is senseless. make way for nature.…
Travels and clippings, Nadine France
Graft Helen Heath Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737762 Beauties of the Octagonal Pool Gregory O’Brien Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869405793 Just Then Harry Ricketts Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738226 To graft is “to fix…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Gregory O’Brien, Harry Ricketts, Helen Heath, Issue 99, Nadine France, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A cabinet of curiosities, Stella Ramage
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy Gregory O’Brien Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404703 The exhibition staged in Wellington City Gallery to accompany the publication of this book contains a striking homage…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Graham Percy, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 94, Stella Ramage, Winter 2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Obituaries – Hugh Price, Bub Bridger and Louise St John White
Hugh Price 1929–2009 Being born with club feet was good luck, Hugh Price said – during remedial massage his mother read to him, getting him hooked on books. He came to champion access to literature as a fundamental human right.…
Tagged with: Ann Mallinson, Bub Bridger, Gregory O’Brien, Hugh Price, Louise St John White, Louise White, Roger Steele
Posted in Obituaries
Posted in Obituaries
Poem – Gregory O’Brien
Low cloud, field of peonies, Martinborough Sleepless night in your house under the horizon—tiles of an unfinished roof sky of unfalling leaves—you hold tightly what you can: a farmer might lose a paddock, a house disappear down its staircase. This…
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