{"id":1568,"date":"2017-03-08T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:09:48","slug":"a-barry-brickell-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/a-barry-brickell-reader","title":{"rendered":"A Barry Brickell Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BARRY BRICKELL READER: SELECTED \u2018WRERTINGS\u2019, MEDITATIONS, OUTBURSTS, DECREES AND DIVERSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Gregory O\u2019Brien
Photographs by Haruhiko Sameshima
Afterword by David Craig<\/p>\n

Published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in association with Rim Books.<\/p>\n

Rim Books is absolutely ecstatic to be associated with publishing this book of \u2018wrertings\u2019 by the maverick New Zealand artist Barry Brickell.<\/p>\n

Known for his decades of pottery making and mountain railway in Coromandel, he has dedicated his life to ceaseless art-making of all kinds. Less known but perhaps more revealing of his inner workings, are his passions for writing and reading, and his life long association with ideas.<\/p>\n

This book chronicles Barry\u2019s \u2018wrertings\u2019, edited and introduced by another New Zealand cultural\/poetic icon, Greg O\u2019Brien, to whom Barry entrusted his manuscripts before he died in January 2016.<\/p>\n

Moyra Elliott, commentater on all things pottery in New Zealand in her blog \u2018Cone Ten and Decending\u2019<\/a> reviews this book:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an anthology of Barry\u2019s writing. Much of it might well be labelled \u2018poetry\u2019, or possibly doggerel, even prose \u2013 of a sort, but he\u2019d prefer \u2018wrertings\u2019, one of many words coined by that fertile brain to express his disdain, among other things, of art-speak, corporates and institutions, politicians, bankers and celebrities, bureaucracy, certain individuals, health supplements, \u2018Zuit\u2019, advertising, speculation, \u2018consumeritis\u2019, fashion, religion and Roads of National Importance. This collection also records his veneration for engineering, the uses his hands might be put to, Colin McCahon, clay, anxiety-free old age, his Dad, classical music, virgin native forest, steaming clinker, useful pots, roast spuds with lashings of gravy, Maoridom, trains and railways and coal- fired kilns, National Radio, Helen Mason and good wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

A must-read if you are interested in New Zealand art, pottery or railways, and if you ever wondered where the Nationalist discourse that fermented through Colin and Co has gone in the arts, you will find them in Barry\u2019s wrertings.<\/p>\n

STEELE ROBERTS AOTEAROA in association with RIM BOOKS.<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-0-947493-34-9<\/p>\n

March 2017<\/p>\n

168pp, soft-cover with flaps, perfect bound, uncoated paper, 205x165mm.<\/p>\n

Last Copies NZ$40 inc. GST<\/p>\n

Add to cart<\/a>\t\n\t\t\t<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

For all orders and requests info@rimbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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BARRY BRICKELL READER: SELECTED \u2018WRERTINGS\u2019, MEDITATIONS, OUTBURSTS, DECREES AND DIVERSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Gregory O\u2019Brien
Photographs by Haruhiko Sameshima
Afterword by David Craig<\/p>\n

Published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in association with Rim Books.<\/p>\n

Rim Books is absolutely ecstatic to be associated with publishing this book of \u2018wrertings\u2019 by the maverick New Zealand artist Barry Brickell.<\/p>\n

Known for his decades of pottery making and mountain railway in Coromandel, he has dedicated his life to ceaseless art-making of all kinds. Less known but perhaps more revealing of his inner workings, are his passions for writing and reading, and his life long … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,25,32],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand-art","category-philosophy","category-pottery","tag-publication-2","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}