TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Gregory TI - Whale Years SN - 9781775587965 AV - PN6110.S4 -- .O375 2015eb U1 - 811.54 PY - 2015/// CY - Auckland PB - Auckland University Press KW - Sea poetry KW - Sea poetry, Australian KW - Pacific Ocean -- Poetry KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - Gregory O'Brien is an award-winning writer, a painter, a literary critic, and an art curator. He is the author of several books, including Beauties of the Octagonal Pool, A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy, and Welcome to the South Seas and Back and Beyond UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1985408 ER -