Bob Orr

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Publications & Biography

• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files
• Bob Orr Select Bibliography

On-line Works

From Blue Footpaths (Amphedesma, 1971)

• Baudelaire’s Scarf
• Experiences
• The X

From Poems for Moira (Hawk, 1979)

• The Reason
• Another Land
• Shift
• Segments
• Bearings

From Cargo (Voice, 1983)

• Snapper
• Australia
• Strange Land
• Last Test
• Sugar Boat

From Red Trees (AUP, 1985)

• Lost Continent
• Broken Words

From Breeze (AUP, 1991)

• Cabbage Tree . . . Three Lamps
• Thelonious Monk Piano
• Bay of Plenty
• My Father’s Bomber Jacket

From Valparaiso (AUP, 2002)

• Once I Felt The Summer Breeze
• Pakiri Beach
• Central Otago
• Have You Ever Been To Thailand?
• Pablo Neruda
• Hay Fever
• From a Bridge
• Squid
• Paekakariki
• A Giant on the Roof
• The Clock Tower in Three Lamps (seeing voices 2)
  

• The Tyre Shop (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Sugar Cane Sax
• Zuckerrohrsax (trans. Olaf Schenk)
• Memories of Pines (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Kiwitahi Way (Best NZ Poems 2003)
• Song to Milarepa, Sardine (Poetic Brandscapes)

About Bob Orr

• Tim Wilson. The Outsider (nzepc/Metro)

Audio

Bob Orr reads poems from Valparaiso, 28 May 2002

• Once I Felt The Summer Breeze
     lo-fi (rm : 250KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 380KB ) 
• Pakiri Beach
     lo-fi (rm : 270KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 410KB ) 
• Central Otago
     lo-fi (rm : 230KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 340KB ) 
• Have You Ever Been To Thailand?
     lo-fi (rm : 290KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 450KB ) 
• Pablo Neruda
     lo-fi (rm : 2700KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 410KB ) 
• Hay Fever
     lo-fi (rm : 270KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 400KB ) 
• From a Bridge
     lo-fi (rm : 270KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 410KB ) 
• Squid
     lo-fi (rm : 300KB, streaming)
     hi-fi (mp3 : 470KB ) 

Links

• Iain Sharp on Bob Orr in Best New Zealand Poems 2001 (IIML)

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Last updated 22 September, 2004