Days Beside Water

by Gregory O'Brien

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857540476
• ISBN13: 9781857540475
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 80 Pages