1 option
Always song in the water : an oceanic sketchbook / Gregory O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Gregory, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Intellectual life.
- New Zealand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, Zealand : Auckland University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Beginning in Northland and heading into the blue beyond, Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters and epiphanies, a dinghy ride through New Zealand's oceanic imagination. With creative spirits such as Janet Frame, Ralph Hotere, Robin White, John Pule and Epeli Hau'ofa as touchstones, O'Brien suggests how we New Zealanders might be re-imagining ourselves as an oceanic people on a small island in a big piece of water. Among the many artists whose work is featured are John Pule, Robin White, Phil Dadson, Fiona Hall, Euan Macleod, Laurence Aberhart and the Sydney-based painter Noel McKenna, who produced numerous works specifically for this book"--Publisher information.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction - The Dinghy and the Dry Land
- Part One: Coasting - A Northland Road Trip
- The Road Code Auckland-Whangarei (SH1)
- 'Just Bursting for the Wide Open Spaces'
- Northland Time
- All Books Whangarei-Dargaville
- Racing Colours
- Small Town, Small World
- The Arrival of the Pianos
- Typography of a River
- At the end of the Alphabet
- The Smither
- An Epiphany Dargaville-Omapere-Ahipara
- A peacock, A Moa and a Victim of Lightning
- A Page from my Mother's Book
- A Kindness
- Mobile Home
- Northlandic
- Dog and Wolf
- Accessories of a Painter
- Great Lists of Our Time
- Night Sky Above Hokianga Harbour
- Pages of a Forest
- 'The Beach is a Highway' . . . All Souls' Speedway, Ahipara-Cape Reinga
- West Coasting
- Skyward, Seaward
- Signs of life, Northland Ahipara-Russell
- Toheroa
- Summer of Celibacy '84!
- Contents of an Attic
- Adonis will not be Silenced
- Lives of the Painter
- Letterboxes Explained
- Driving or Riding or Rowing off into the Sunset
- Ending and Going Home Russell-Kawa Kawa-Auckland (NW Motorway)
- Part Two: We Went Ashore One Morning
- We Went Ashore . . .
- 'A zone of the Imagination' - Lessons of Sunday Island I
- The Furthest North
- Landfall and Departure
- The Shape We're In
- All Black as far as the eye can see
- The Questioning Sea
- That which is washed Ashore - South Coast, Wellington I
- That which is washed Ashore - South Coast, Wellington II
- Rope Room and God Box
- The Italians of Pitt Island
- Container
- South Pacific
- Frigate and Bird
- Whaling
- From the Oceanic Sketchbook
- Green Ray
- 'An Island is an Education' - Lessons of Sunday Island II
- Astacology
- R. I. W. S. 2011
- Undersea and Afterlife
- Hydrosphere and Tattooed Man
- The Frozen Pages.
- The Department of Pacific Studies
- 'An Island is Magnetic' - Lessons of Sunday Island III
- The Hammer and the Sickle and the Ballpoint Pen
- Always Song in the Water
- 'Rejigging the Realm' - Lessons of Sunday Island IV
- Sunset System
- A Sermon, a Sanctuary and a Song of Sunday Island
- Ode to the Kermadec Trench
- References &
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781776710478
- 1776710479
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.