After Bathing at Baxter's Essays and Notebooks

A personal exploration by artist and writer, Gregory O'Brien, of some of the most significant New Zealand poets and painters of the twentieth century. The collection begins with James K Baxter. Other writers include: Kendrick Smithyman, Janet Frame and Ruth Dallas. Following a sequence of autobiographical stories, O'Brien shifts his gaze to the visual arts and writes about such artists as Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon, Rosalie Gascoigne and Denis O'Connor.O'Brien, Gregory is the author of 'After Bathing at Baxter's Essays and Notebooks' with ISBN 9780864734181 and ISBN 0864734182.