Poet's Autobiography Launch this Sunday

Sunday 24th July, book launch at Paekakariki Railway Station, 3pm, poet, artist, novelist & historian, Michael O'Leary, is pleased to invite you to the launch of his autobiography, 'Die Bibel' published by Steele Roberts.

Below is the publisher's note for the back cover.

• DIE BIBEL
  Michael O’Leary
  being the authoritative history of 
  Dr Michael John O’Leary, Earl of Seacliff
  Die Bibel Michael O’leary
• 
  In 1998 the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
  described Michael O’Leary, the Earl of Seacliff, as a
  publisher, poet, novelist, performer and bookshop
  proprietor who has made a colourful contribution to the
  literary scene: “Under his Earl of Seacliff
  Art Workshop imprint he has published his
  own prolific output as well as various other
  writers, both alternative and main stream.” 
  The Companion noted that Michael’s
  poetry and novels explore his heritage, “the
  poetry more conventionally, the prose in an
  alternative vein which owes something to
  Joyce and Beckett.”
• 
  Since that time Michael has completed masters and
  doctoral studies in New Zealand publishing and literature
  at Victoria University, and has continued to write, publish
  and sell books from his seaside earldom at Paekakariki.
  Throughout Die Bibel he often uses his poems to express his
  thoughts and feelings, and to pay tribute to extraordinary
  people and events in his life. One of many highlights is
  Psalm 34, ‘It’s not the leaving of Wellington’, an odyssey
  around the capital city.
• 
  Die Bibel is the lively, candid journey of a man who has
  lived a singular life in Aotearoa New Zealand and has made
  an indelible contribution to its literature.
  Author photo (at Paekakariki Railway Station): Lindsay Rabbitt
  Front cover: Nigel Brown’s portrait of the Earl of Seacliff