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Poem – Gregory O’Brien
On hearing, at the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco, the outcome of the New Zealand elections, November 2008 ‘The silvery Lookdowns (Selene vomer) disappear in the dazzling surface reflection as they slide through the water like blades … .’ Guide to…
A child’s eye view Gavin Bishop
Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious Gregory O’Brien Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404048 This is a delicious book. As a child, I would have loved it. It reminds me of children’s books that were…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Gavin Bishop, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 83, Spring 2008
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Still in tune, Brent Southgate
A Nest of Singing Birds:100 years of the New Zealand School Journal Gregory O’Brien Learning Media, $59.95, ISBN 9780790319636 It has almost no equivalent elsewhere. Margaret Mahy has called it a “national treasure”. For many, it has been the beginning…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Brent Southgate, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 81, Learning Media
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Neither here nor there, Jane Westaway
Here Comes Another Vital Moment Diane Brown Godwit, $25.00, ISBN 1869621190 News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 0864735324 Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia Martin Edmond Addenda, $44.95, ISBN 1921037083 According to…
Tagged with: Addenda, Diane Brown, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Jane Westaway, Martin Edmond, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Then and now, Peter Ireland
Aberhart Gregory O’Brien and Justin Paton (eds) Victoria University Press, $125.00, ISBN 9780864735560 It’s given to few artists – in their lifetimes, at least – to be known simply by their surname. The great 20th century instance was Picasso, a…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Justin Paton, Peter Ireland, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem – Gregory O’Brien
Ode to fashion (for Doris De Pont) Of your over-reaching lines and the displaced hem enough said, fashion being a kind of biography in which the shape of a life is contained but not in words. Let us consider…
Hymns, history and haemorrhoids, Janet Hughes
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $22.00, ISBN 1869403495 Afternoon of an Evening Train Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $21.99, ISBN 9864735014 Oooooo…..!!! Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877338699 Footfall Brian Turner Godwit,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Turner, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hone Tuwhare, Ian Wedde, Issue 71, Janet Hughes, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2005, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Hooked on wonder and mystery, Damian Skinner
Shane Cotton ed Lara Strongman City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864734697 Jeffrey Harris Justin Paton Victoria University Press and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $69.95, ISBN 0864734867 Engravings on Wood by Leo Bensemann ed Peter Simpson Holloway…
Man listening to God, Gregory O’Brien
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