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Days Beside Water
Gregory O'Brien
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Description for Days Beside Water
Paperback. This volume is intended as an introduction to the poetry of the New Zealand poet Gregory O'Brien. The poems are set where sea, land and sky, present and future, meet in different lights and moods. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160. Weight in Grams: 146.
"Days Beside Water" is an ideal introduction to the poetry of Gregory O'Brien, one of the best younger writers (and artists) of New Zealand. The poems are set where sea, land and sky, past, present and future, meet in different lights and moods. There are lyrics, comic interludes, an imagined account of the marriage of Samuel Marsden, the 19th-century missioner. The theme of spiritual marriage - a union of clements in imaginary or historical contexts - recurs in two sequences: an invented life of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, and "The Milk Horse", about a foundling and the Mother Superior ... Read more
"Days Beside Water" is an ideal introduction to the poetry of Gregory O'Brien, one of the best younger writers (and artists) of New Zealand. The poems are set where sea, land and sky, past, present and future, meet in different lights and moods. There are lyrics, comic interludes, an imagined account of the marriage of Samuel Marsden, the 19th-century missioner. The theme of spiritual marriage - a union of clements in imaginary or historical contexts - recurs in two sequences: an invented life of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, and "The Milk Horse", about a foundling and the Mother Superior ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857540475
SKU
V9781857540475
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11
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