Whale Years
Published on 1. July 2015
100 pages
978-1-77558-796-5 (ISBN)
Description
For more than three years, poet and artist Gregory O'Brien followed the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in a collection of poems that stand as a homage to a series of remarkable locations and the natural histories of those places. In three parts, this collection stretches across the Pacific, following whale-roads, weather balloons, and sons at sea, charting historical explorations and other Pacific realisms, such as the Pacific trash vortex, the wavering democracy of Tonga, and the political history of Chile. These poems are an exploration of outlying islands, the ocean that lies between them, and the whale-species and sea birds found there. From Waihi looking east and Valparaiso looking west, O'Brien surveys the cultural heart and health of an ocean in memorable, musical, moving lines.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
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1,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-77558-796-5 (9781775587965)
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Content
- Cover
- About the author
- Imprint
- Contents
- Epigraphs
- One: From Various Islands
- The length of the voyage
- Raoul Island
- Emotional life of Thomas Bell, Raoul Island
- Whale Survey, Raoul Island, with Rosemary Dobson
- The captain of the Rena on Astrolabe Reef
- Oneraki
- White Island (Whakaari)
- A schematic analysis of the first and only book of the explorer Raoul H. Rangitahua (page numbers in brackets)
- A summer of inflatable gifts, Pitt Island
- Weather balloon, Raoul Island
- Loneliness of the Raoul Island weather balloon
- The return of Christ to Futuna Chapel
- Whale years
- A burning tyre, Nuku'alofa
- Luminosity
- Two: Book of Numbered Days
- I South-west Pacific: Nuku'alofa, Tonga, May 2012
- Longitudinal
- A crown for the new King of Tonga
- Hemisphere
- A common grave, Tongatapu
- Nocturne
- Two trees
- Coconut crab, lizard and a bus called 'Psalm 23'
- Mourners of the death of the King of Tonga
- Handbook for the recovery of sea turtles
- Tapa
- A liberal economy
- Lamp and lizard
- A hundred days of mourning
- II South-east Pacific: Rapa Nui/Easter Island, July 2012
- Del Pacifico Sudeste
- At Tongariki
- Gravestone
- Tangerine
- South-east Pacific
- On Easter Island
- Apparition of the head of a Chilean dictator as a moai, Easter Island
- Elegy
- Luck Bird
- Hanga Roa
- Guitar, Hanga Roa
- Headstone lamps, Hanga Roa
- Conversation between a stone head on Easter Island and the weather balloon, Raoul Island
- Moai, Rapa Nui
- The non-disappeared, Hanga Roa
- The zoo above our heads
- At Orongo
- A children's song, Hanga Roa
- The sky above Rapa Nui
- Church at Hanga Roa
- Three: Memory of a Fish
- Acknowledgements
