David Parkyn
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David Parkyn was born in Dunedin and grew up in Lower Hutt and Wellington. He studied politics and comparative religion at Victoria and Canterbury universities before traveling through Central and South America, hitchhiking across Canada and the USA and mixing in the counterculture. These early experiences are evident in Something Else. He has published two collections of poetry: Children of the Storm (with illustrations by Phillip Clairmont, Sally Griffin and Alan Taylor) and Colonial Landscape. He lives in Wellington and is working on a new novel.
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
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Branch:
Wellington
Location:
Wellington
Publications:
Something Else
Towing an iceberg , modern day art controversies and life in inner city Auckland of the 1960s is in this story.
The freshness of ‘Something Else’ - besides Sally Griffin's lovely, expressionist illustrations at the head of each chapter - is that it tells a story from our recent history that has seldom been told. New Zealand Books
SOMETHING ELSE - a novel by David Parkyn
Published by Piedog Press. To order a copy, go through the Piedog Press website or email hello@piedogpress.com $38.00
One reason the book is remarkable is the language. It's classical but manages to describe hip better than hip. Jacqueline Fahey
"...let us therefore raise our glasses and peer over the rampants to the crests and valleys beyond. To art's accomplice - treason..."