Beauties of the octagonal pool / Gregory O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Making unexpected connections, this book collects poems written from a variety of times, locations, and experiences-from the water frontage of Fiji, Fiordland, and the Mediterranean to the built history of Moscow and Berlin. Filled with a thoughtful musicality, a shambling romance, and a sense of humor, these witty and imaginative poems tell stories that range from a mechanical rat on Raoul Island to a black negligée and an ice-cream vendor in Moscow, and from a mayor and the Mistral in France to a new musical sound in New Zealand. Engaging and lively, this compilation highlights the persis

Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Contents; 1. Beauties of the octagonal pool; The lake of first girlfriends; Whangaparoa, 1975; Pencil; Ceiling fan, Villefranche; A consort of flower parts; Line; Love poem; Ode to fashion; The camera is a small room; 2. The sea of where it was we went; A guide to the frogs of Fiji; A rattling window, Sigatoka; Coral; A swim, mid-ocean, upon reaching the Tropic of Capricorn; A naval exercise (for two hands); The mechanical rat of Raoul Island; An artist's guide to the layers of an ocean; A mule, Raoul Island; Rangitahua; Ode to Futuna Chapel; 3. Breaksea Girl

Richard Henry in FiordlandWet Jacket Arm; A shift in the wind; The Ailing Wife; 4. Red square, black square; Guests of the Rossiya Hotel!; Woman sleeping in an art gallery; Outside Lenin's tomb; Words sung by a Russian soprano; Rublyov; Black square; 5. Little Oneroa; Little Oneroa; Sprig; A fall of ice on Mt Maunganui, 11 May 2009; A small ode to faith; The Surfers' Mass; The non-singing seats; Silver gelatin print, Russell, Bay of Islands; 6. Among trees; On hearing, at the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco, the outcome of the New Zealand elections, November 2008; Marseilles Fish Market; Octopus

Among treesThe mayor of Sault contemplates the Mistral; Rue Obscure; Reading Italian poetry at Waihi Beach; Geography of Northern Italy; Lamp; Ode to thought; 7. Romantic voyage; Solidarity with the anchovy; A moa-proof garden, Onehunga; Letter to Louise St John . . .; Dylan Thomas (b. 2003), Coolmore Stud, New South Wales; Three elegies; Romantic Voyage; 8. The invisible fathers; The invisible fathers; Afternote; Afternote; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-77558-510-7

1-86940-580-3

OCLC:

863822574