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Always Song in the Water : An Oceanic Sketchbook by Gregory O'Brien
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | 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
Big Weather : Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien (editor), Louise St John (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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-first cen ...Show more
Black Barn: portrait of a place by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt (authors); Brian Culy (photographer)
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ General 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: NZ Art
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
House and Contents by Gregory O'Brien
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with yours, the colour of her eyes, hair and skin. Her language, with its past participles, figures of speech, ...Show more
Melvin Day: Artist by Gregory O'Brien
70.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
There were many Melvin Days, but the term Artist encompasses all of them. During a career spanning seven decades, he produced some of the most intellectually astute, yet often visceral, paintings in New Zealand art history. Born in Hamilton in 1923, Day was a radical but also a great believer in traditi ...Show more
Pat Hanly by Gregory O'Brien
65.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Reading Level: New
A magnificent colourful monograph from the series of major New Zealnd artists by Ron Sang Publications. Over a career spanning four decades, Pat Hanly proposed a new manner of looking at New Zealand - the land and its people. His art heralded new ways of thinking about this country - as a nation that b ...Show more
See What I can See - New Zealand Photography for the Young & Curious by Gregory O'Brien
24.90 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Reading Level: very good
Photography was invented the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Within a few years, cameras were charting the life and times of people at this end of the planet. See What I Can See is a celebration of the camera - the New Zealand that it captured, and the artists who wielded it. See What I C ...Show more
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