New HeadworX Release: Aspects of Reality by John O’Connor

  

Title: Aspects of Reality

Author: John O’Connor

Publisher/Distributor: HeadworX

Release: September 2013

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 978-0-473-14819-5

Aspects of Reality often challenges our expectations of language/reality, to the point of surrealism.

A surrealism that often notes the difference between the tired, unresponsive LANGUAGE of our time and the closer-to-the-source LANGUAGE in which the world lives.

A book that is full of people and things. A book that sets its own standard of what lives through its aspects of perception.

This is the 10th book of poems by John O’Connor.

About the Author

Twice winner of the open section, and winner of the haiku section of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, John O’Connor’s poems have been very widely published both in New Zealand and overseas. In 2001 he was awarded a Museum of Haiku Literature Award (Tokyo) for “best of issue” in Frogpond International, a special issue of Frogpond (US) featuring haiku from 56 countries and language communities.

List of John O'Connor's Publications:

Poetry

Laying Autumn’s Dust (Line Print, Christchurch, 1983)

Citizen of No Mean City (Concept Publishing, Christchurch, 1985)

Too Right Mate: The Well-Versed Voter’s Satirical Guide, with Bernard Gadd (Hallard Press, Auckland, 1996)

As It Is (Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, 1997)

A Particular Context (Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, 1999)

Working Voices, with Eric Mould (Hallard Press, Auckland, 2003)

Parts of the Moon: Selected Haiku (Post Pressed, Brisbane, 2007)

Cornelius & Co.: Collected Working-Class Verse (Post Pressed, Brisbane, 2011)

Bright the Harvest Moon (Poets Group, Christchurch, 2011)

Aspects of Reality (HeadworX, Wellington, 2013)

Whistling in the Dark (forthcoming)

Aspects of Reality distributed by HeadworX

Email: mpirie@xtra.co.nz