Download or read book Beauties of the Octagonal Pool written by Gregory O'Brien and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making unexpected connections, this book collects poems written from a variety of times, locations, and experiences—from the water frontage of Fiji, Fiordland, and the Mediterranean to the built history of Moscow and Berlin. Filled with a thoughtful musicality, a shambling romance, and a sense of humor, these witty and imaginative poems tell stories that range from a mechanical rat on Raoul Island to a black negligée and an ice-cream vendor in Moscow, and from a mayor and the Mistral in France to a new musical sound in New Zealand. Engaging and lively, this compilation highlights the persistent self-consciousness about the relationship between language and the world.
Download or read book A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru taha written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the second decade of this century; they look at decolonisation, indigeneity, climate change . . . this is what they see.Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as korero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists. The lineup from Aoteraoa includes, among others, Alison Wong, Paula Morris, Anne Salmond, Tina Makereti, Ben Brown, David Eggleton, Cilla McQueen, Hinemoana Baker, Erik Kennedy, Ian Wedde, Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory O' Brien, Vincent O' Sullivan, Patricia Grace, Selina Tusitala Marsh and Whiti Hereaka. Guest writers from overseas include Aparecida Vilaç a, Jose-Luis Novo and Ru Freeman.
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Download or read book Whale Years written by Gregory O'Brien and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Black Widow s Guide to Killer Pool written by Jeanette Lee and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pool-playing legend Jeanette Lee--"the Black Widow," who wears only black during tournaments and devours her opponents--explains every aspect of playing to win, from holding the cue to performing combination, kiss, and trick shots. Lee shows wannabe winners of every level how to compete intelligently, lose gracefully, win frequently, stay focused, and achieve goals in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. This hip, engaging guide to the game is designed to turn you into the player to beat--in basements, bar leagues, local tournaments, and beyond.
Download or read book The Gardens of Persia written by Penelope Hobhouse and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the evolution of Persian gardens from ancient times to the present day and their impact on modern garden design.
Download or read book The Poetics of Gardens written by Charles W. Moore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
Download or read book Always Song in the Water written by Gregory O’Brien and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.Every spring on Gregory O’Brien’s front lawn, on a ridgetop in Hataitai, an upside-down dinghy blooms with flowering clematis. In this book, O’Brien takes his metaphorical dinghy to the edges of New Zealand – starting with a road trip through Northland and then voyaging out into the Pacific, to lead us into some under-explored territories of the South Pacific 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.Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters, sightings and unexpected epiphanies. It is a high-spirited, personal and inventive account of being alive at the outer extremities of Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘This is my field notebook, my voyaging logbook,’ Gregory O’Brien writes, ‘this is my Schubert played on a barrel organ, my whale survey, my songbook.’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.
Download or read book The One Story written by KARTHIK ARUMUGAM and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Vikram Dev has dealt with some serious crimes and murders in his career, but nothing comes close to this one – The Octagon Case. An architectural marvel – what happens inside it is a mystery. Back-to-back ruthless murders. Baffling messages. One complex pattern. With his sub-ordinate, Raghav, by his side, Vikram races after the anonymous face but soon loses himself between time and life. Will Vikram pick up the scattered pieces and make his move? Or will the masked killer complete his story? Two parallel lives, but one story. The One Story.
Download or read book I am Sorry written by MD Nazmul Ahsan and published by BookCountry. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our inside! First layer,simple! Second layer,complex! People around the world only care about them. Most of them don't dare or try to think about something else. Is there anything else without them? Yes it is! The complex layer is about depth. We think nothing down there. It's wrong! The deepest and third layer is the simplest! Simple enough to regret,avoid and fear! But i don't regret,avoid or fear! I just want! I wanted to depict them with affection! No fancy talk,no emotion or convincing to enhance selling! I am presenting you a book of 20 short stories. They are neither good nor bad! May be two or three of them are crap! But the others......you can hate them or love them....praise them or scold the.....but the only thing you are not going to do...... is ignore them!............"I am sorry!"
Download or read book House Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Explorer s Guide Atlanta written by Carol Thalimer and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for travelers features tips on dining, lodging, transportation, shopping, recreational activities, landmarks, and cultural opportunities.
Download or read book Havoc written by R. J. Pineiro and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CIA Officer Tom Grant was pulled out of early retirement to investigate a recent high-tech robbery at United States Nanotechnologies, America's government-run agency for the development of nanoweapons, he had no idea that he would be propelled into the middle of a conspiracy that could threaten the survival of our species. Teaming up with young Rachel Muratani, a rising star in the agency, and Karen Frost, an old hand from the FBI, Grant tracks the cyber thieves to CyberWerke, a German conglomerate run by Rolf Hartman. Hartman has stretched his high-tech empire across Europe, and now plans to use the newly acquired nanotechnology to take his empire global. Among the stolen USN hardware is a prototype nanoassembler, a highly intelligent and self-propelled machine with the capability of creating and destroying any object allowed by the laws of physics, including itself---though it needs access to radioactive material in order to mine the fuel required to power its clones. When the nanoassembler breaks free from its relatively unsophisticated captors, it finds itself no longer restricted by the software shackles imposed on it while at USN. While the megalomaniacal Hartman races to recapture it, Grant and his team must not only stop Hartman, but find away to combat the nanoassembler as it embarks on its own mission to ensure the survival of its species---even if that means the eradication of the human race! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Download or read book Travel Adventures Wonders of the World Symmetry Guided Reading 6 Pack written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the ancient and modern wonders of the world becomes an adventure in learning geometry! Students will explore mathematics in a meaningful way by examining the shapes and symmetry of places like the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colosseum, and the Great Wall of China. This 6-Pack of math readers builds literacy and math content knowledge while introducing students to new concepts and vocabulary terms. Lets Explore Math sidebars, the Problem Solving section, and the mathematical charts and diagrams provide extensive opportunities for students to practice what they have learned. Text features such as a glossary, index, bold print, and a table of contents increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section includes questions that facilitate mathematical discourse and activities that students can respond to at home or school. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
