Unposted Autumn Leaves

<p>Oliver's<em> Unposted Autumn Leaves</em>-<em>A Memoir In Essays</em> begins with his childhood growing up in the hilly suburb of Brooklyn-<em>west</em> Wellington New Zealand in the 50s and 60s. He attended St. Bernard's Primary School Brooklyn then Marist Brothers Newtown and finally St. Patrick's College Cambridge Terrace. This period is extensively covered including his post-schooldays right through to the close of the 60s in a Wellington that no longer exists captured in the essays <em>Talk Chalk And Asphalt Days 'A Big Fruity Guy ...'</em> <em>A Small Matter Of Demolition A Nostalgia For Books </em>and<em> Gnosis A Spark.</em></p><p><br></p><p>There are essays on travel. <em>One Day in the Life of Richard Ramos</em> recalls San Francisco in 1979 and <em>One Day In the Life of Vicki Viidikas</em> covers Sydney from the mid to late 80s. <em>Gulls Dreaming at the Mast </em>and<em> The River Runs Backwards</em> considers Irish cultural history as it relates to the life and times of Oliver's great grandfather Thomas McCormack who emigrated from Ireland to Australia and later as a young man sailed from Melbourne<em> </em>aboard the <em>S.S.</em> <em>Ringarooma </em>to Port Chalmers Dunedin in 1877.<em> Unposted Autumn Leaves</em> counterpoints much that can be found in his epic poem <em>Intercolonial</em> (2013) which 'reaffirms Oliver's status as our leading <em>transtasman</em> poet.'</p><p><br></p>