"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
- recurs in two sequences: an invented life of the Italian composer
Claudio Monteverdi, and "The Milk Horse", about a foundling and the
Mother Superior of an orphanage. The poems capture the permanent
value in moments and emotions, chiefly love. O'Brien's involvement
with the graphic arts and add richness to his imagery.
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