House & Contents
Published on 10. February 2022
113 pages
978-1-77671-076-8 (ISBN)
Description
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, the sounds and tremors which are its flesh and bones these words go out to greet your words and to greet you - these words which will never leave her. House & Contents is a moving meditation on earthquakes and uncertainties, parents and hats, through Gregory O'Brien's remarkable poetry and paintings.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Poems
- Mihi
- House and contents
- House
- Te whakarite puawai
- Father
- Asthmatic
- Two burning cars, one afternoon
- They were cheap and we were poor
- House and contents (cont.)
- The Spaniards of Italian Creek
- Streets and mountains
- The uses of fondness
- For James Cook, melancholy, at Meretoto / Ship Cove
- The Science Tent pitched at Meretoto, 1777
- Great age of machines
- Three postcards from Valparaíso
- House and contents (cont.)
- Styx Crossing, Upper Taieri
- Styx, Central Otago, late summer
- A genealogy
- A device for bird-catching, The Snares and Rakiura
- House and contents (cont.)
- The library ladder
- Signing
- House and contents (cont.)
- Song of the coral brain
- Opunake, Taranaki
- Conversation with a mid-Canterbury braided river
- Sixteen things
- House and contents (cont.)
- Lines composed a few metres from Aniwaniwa Visitors Centre on the day of its demolition
- For Carlo, a biplane flying low over the Mataura River
- House and contents (cont.)
- A lesser member of the family of Michael Collins, Cork
- Paula Rego
- House and contents (cont.)
- Ode to the water molecule
- House and contents (cont.)
- On drinking water
- House and contents (cont.)
- A round, Te Namu
- Sombrerería
- House and contents (cont.)
- Origin of the Valdes chair
- For Jen at Three O'Clock
- II. Paintings
- Always song in the water / Lessons of Sunday Island
- Always song in the water / Susanna, Remus and Sky
- Poem in the Matukituki Valley II
- Residencia en la tierra / 12 months in Alexandra
- On Central Time (for Ernst Plischke)
- Evening of an afternoon flight
- The uses of fondness
- Lines composed a few metres above high water, Meretoto
- Afternoon of an evening flight
- La Cathédrale Engloutie - apparition of Futuna Chapel off Raoul Island during annual whale survey
- Poem in the Matukituki Valley I
- To see you and see you no more (A canticle, a flying lesson)
- Ode to the preservation of southern waterways
- An apparition of John Scott's Aniwaniwa over Lake Waikaremoana, January 2017
- The sea of where it was we went
- Ode to a water molecule and five Canterbury rivers
- collection of Ashburton Art Gallery Gurdjieff
- A letter from Northland (A/H/I/P/A/R/A) (detail)
- Star of Bengal Bank
- Ode to an abandoned whaling station
- Portrait of Jenny Bornholdt as Mrs Winter
- First station / Aniwaniwa
- An evening hymn / Raoul Island Whale Survey I
- Notes to accompany the poems and paintings
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
