GREGORY O’BRIEN’s newest books are a collection of poems, Afternoon of an Evening Train (Victoria University Press, 2005), a selection of work by New Zealand writers in France and French writers in New Zealand, The Colour of Distance (Victoria University Press, 2005) – which he co-edited with Jenny Bornholdt – and an essay/memoir, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore, which is forthcoming from Victoria University Press and Carcanet (UK). His poems were the basis for the Winter 2006 fashion range from Auckland designer Doris de Pont and an exhibition of his poems opened at the Bowen Galleries, Wellington, in March 2006.

Poem: Where I Went