Gregory O'Brien

Gregory O’Brien is an independent writer, teacher, painter, literary critic and art curator with many books of poetry, fiction, essays and commentary to his name. Recent projects include the poetry collection Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (Auckland University Press, 2012) and art book Hanly (Ron Sang Publications, 2012), A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (AUP, 2011) and Euan Macleod (Piper Press, 2010), as well as a catalogue for the touring exhibition Kermadec. In 2012 he was made an Arts Foundation Laureate and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in non-fiction.

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