House & Contents

Häftad, Maori, 2022

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Our mother's clouds and insectsfly to embrace your cloudsand insects. Her architecture, roads,bridges and infrastructurerush to greet yours.Her molecules on their upward trajectoryentwine with yours, the colour of her eyes,hair and skin. Her language,with its pastparticiples, figures of speech,the sounds and tremorswhich are its flesh and bonesthese words go outto greet your words andto greet you -these wordswhich will never leave her.House & Contents is a moving meditation on earthquakes and uncertainties, parents and hats, through Gregory O'Brien's remarkable poetry and paintings.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-10
Mått165 x 230 x 10 mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkMaori, Engelska
Antal sidor112
FörlagAuckland University Press
ISBN9781869409647

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Gregory O'Brien is an independent writer, painter and art curator. He has written many books of poetry, fiction, essays and commentary. His books include A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (Auckland University Press, 2011) and the multi-award-winning introductions to art for the young and curious: Welcome to the South Seas (Auckland University Press, 2004) and Back and Beyond (Auckland University Press, 2008), which both won the Non-Fiction Prize at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. His book Always Song in the Water: An Oceanic Sketchbook was published in 2019, and a major work on the artist Don Binney will appear later in 2022. Gregory O'Brien became an Arts Foundation Laureate and won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in 2012, and in 2017 became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and received an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington.

'Since I taught Greg O'Brien almost forty years ago, his writing has matured and developed in cunning and wisdom; but it is still the work of the writer as I first encountered him. His combination of visual and verbal art was and is extraordinary. Greg loves beautiful things, and creates them of words and in paint. He has established his identity as poet, craftsman, painter, a sort of impresario of aesthetic order-in-disorder. Admired both at home and abroad, he is unique among New Zealand poets in the way he combines his two arts and makes them one, each enhancing the other. Bright, fresh and surprising, bordering on the surreal yet peculiar in its literalness, House & Contents is a challenge to the reader - one of rare quality and true originality.' - C. K. Stead