Gregory O'Brien

Gregory O’Brien (born 1961 in Matamata New Zealand), is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.

Life

He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckland.^[1]

His work has appeared in Islands, Landfall and Sport, Meanjin, Scripsi. He lives in Wellington where he is Senior Curator at the City Gallery Wellington.

Awards and honours

• 1988 Sargeson Fellowship
• 1995 Victoria University writing fellow
• 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• 2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement^[2]

Works

• "Rocks, Te Namu Pa, Taranaki"; "Untitled"; "Beausoleil", "European", Shearsman 59
• "Printmaking Studio of John Drawbridge, Island Bay, Wellington", Shearsman 67/68
• "Wet Jacket Arm", Jacket 35, Early 2008
• Location of the Least Person (opening with the ‘Old Man South Road’ sequence), was published in Auckland in 1987
• Dunes and Barns (1988)
• Man with a Child’s Violin (1990)
• Great Lake (Sydney, 1991)
• Malachi, a charming verse novella (Adelaide, 1993)
• Days Beside Water, Auckland in 1993
• Winter I Was (Victoria University Press, 1999)
• Afternoon of an Evening Train (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005)

Novel

• Diesel Mystic (1989),

Anthologies

• Vincent O'Sullivan, ed. (1987). An Anthology of twentieth century New Zealand poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558163-8.

Criticism

• "Running Dog The Poetry of Ken Bolton", Sport 16: Autumn 1996
• After Bathing At Baxter's, Victoria University Press, 2002.
• News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2007)

Editor

• Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, ed. (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0.

References

1. http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/obriengreg.html
2. "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.

External links

• "Gregory O'Brien", Scottish Poetry Library
• "O'Brien, Gregory ", Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive