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Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific
 

Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific (Hardback)

Edited by O'Brien, Gregory; Golder, Bronwen

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Partnering with the Royal New Zealand Navy and New Zealand Department of Conservation, Pew provided an opportunity for nine artists to experience the vast Kermadec region. This catalogue records this voyage of artists and the works they produced.

ISBN 9780473200176
Published 1 January 2012
Interest Age All ages
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Beauties of the Octagonal Pool
  

Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (Paperback)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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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 v ...

ISBN 9781869405793
Published 3 February 2012 by Auckland University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious
 

Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious (Hardback, illustrated edition)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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Kiwi, rugby players, angels and aunts, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird's-eye view of New Zealand painting. This book is alive with many of the paintings that have, over the past few hundred years, broadened the horizons of citizens ...

ISBN 9781869404048
Published 1 September 2008 by Auckland University Press
Interest Age 8-11 years
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A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
  

A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (Hardback)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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A Micronaut in the Wide World re-discovers the life and work of this talented, original artist/illustrator/typographer.

ISBN 9781869404703
Published 1 February 2011 by Auckland University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Aberhart
  

Aberhart (Hardback, illustrated edition)

Photographs by Aberhart, Laurence; Text by Paton, Justin; O'Brien, Gregory

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Laurence Aberhart has been at the forefront of New Zealand photography since the late '70s, and is recognised as a major international figure. In this landmark publication, 235 full-page reproductions of iconic photographs of chruches, marae, cemeteries,Masonic Lodges and other s ...

ISBN 9780864735560
Published 1 May 2007 by Victoria University Press
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A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal
 

A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal (Hardback)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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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 la ...

ISBN 9780790319636
Published 1 May 2007 by Learning Media Ltd
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A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal
 

A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal (Paperback)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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Celebrates in words and pictures a publication that "has shaped the country we live in - and the luminaries of New Zealand arts and letters who have featured in it".

ISBN 9780790326276
Published 15 September 2007 by Learning Media Ltd
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After Bathing at Baxter's: Essay's and Notebooks
   

After Bathing at Baxter's: Essay's and Notebooks (Trade Paperback/Paperback, illustrated edition)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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This is a "personal exploration of-and homage to- some of the important New Zealand poets and painters of the 20th century" that begins with James K Baxter and that looks at other notable artists such as Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon and Denis O'Connor. Other major writers covered ...

ISBN 9780864734181
Published 1 March 2002 by Victoria University Press
Interest Age All ages
Series Essays & Interviews
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Afternoon of an Evening Train
 

Afternoon of an Evening Train (Trade Paperback/Paperback, illustrated edition)

By O'Brien, Gregory

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A collection of poems, this work talks about New Zealand - from Waiheke Island to Dunedin via the Waihi Beach Dump and Wellington's storm sewers. It features images of busy intersections, rambling side shows, and towering cathedrals, which provide a sense of commuter traffic - b ...

ISBN 9780864735010
Published 1 July 2005 by Victoria University Press
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The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand
  

The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New title)

Edited by Bornholdt, Jenny; O'Brien, Gregory

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Includes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers - Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, James K Baxter and others. This anthology also represents the imaginative engagement of the French writers - including Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis ...

ISBN 9780864735058
Published 18 July 2005 by Victoria University Press
Interest Age All ages
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