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A Barry Brickell Reader - Selected 'Writings', Meditations, Outbursts, Decrees and Diversions by Barry Brickell; Gregory O'Brien (editor) & Haruhiko Sameshima (photographer)
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"What a fine thing it is to have this full and final show of Barry's 'wrerterly' productivity laid out expansively, matched by a photo-essay that shows Barry doing what he always did most: working, in his own self-made situ. Laid out, too, in the long thin lines he loved to trace, on paper/ canvas, in c ...Show more
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy by Gregory O'Brien
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Graham Percy is one of New Zealand's highest achieving illustrators on a global scale. Though he lived in London from 1964 until his death in 2008, he grew up here and never ceased thinking of himself as an expatriate Kiwi. A Micronaut in the Wide World re-discovers the life and work of this talented, o ...Show more
A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O'Brien
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The School Journal was 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has shaped the country we live in. Over the course of its histor ...Show more
A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O'Brien
$45.00 NZD
Category: saxa liquefacta | Reading Level: New
The School Journal will be 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred years of the New Zealand School Journal - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has sha ...Show more
Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
$24.95 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Always Song in the Water : An Oceanic Sketchbook by Gregory O'Brien
$49.95 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: near fine
Every morning Gregory OBrien looks out his window to see an upside down rowboat on his front lawn, deposited many years ago after some adventure and now covered in creeping vines. In this meditation on land and water, art and literature, OBrien goes in search of this country and our place as dwellers on ...Show more
Back & Beyond - New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious by Gregory O'Brien
$34.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
Features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, who are seasoned travellers across time and space.
Beauties of the Octagonal Pool by O'Brien Gregory
$29.95 NZD
Category: No Category
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: Poetry
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-firs ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf. It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again. Design messages hit most readers sublimina ...Show more
Black Barn: portrait of a place by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt (authors); Brian Culy (photographer)
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Meandering across the foothills of Te Mata Peak and through the Tuki Tuki Valley, Black Barn Vineyards has become one of Hawke's Bay's most popular attractions. Its evolution over the past 20 years is a story of enterprise and creativity - from a single cottage into a wine, food and luxury accommodation ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$89.99 NZD
Category: No Category
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
