Always Song in the Water: An Oceanic Sketchbook

By Gregory O’Brien

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. 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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869409345
• ISBN13: 9781869409340
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.5"