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    The Station of Oi
    The Station of Oi
    The Station of Oi
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    The Station of Oi

    By RG Gregory

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    Three collections of poems based upon art reproductions, photographs and other card designs.

    After a visit to the Hiroshige Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London during September 1997, I purchased a pack of ten cards, thinking they were all different, with a view to writing a poem on each to celebrate various relatives' and friends' birthdays.

    When it turned out the cards carried the same illustration - that of The Station of Oi. from the artist's series of sixty-nine woodcuts based on the stations of the Kisokaido Road - I decided to attempt ten meditations around the one theme.

    The first meditation celebrated my daughter Pat's birthday on October 1st, and the last my son Andrew's birthday on December 8th.

    Those in between are all written for friends.
    The final meditation relates to me personally and is a statement about my own confused journey at my sixty-ninth station of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBurgage Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2014
    ISBN9781910493038
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      The Station of Oi - RG Gregory

      The Station of Oi

      THE STATION OF OI

      The Station of Oi

      STAINED GLASS WINDOWS

      WINDOWS

      Three collections of poems based upon art reproductions, photographs and other card designs

      Copyright © RG GREGORY 2014

      RG Gregory is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved.

      Publisher: Burgage Books (29 Market Drayton Shropshire TF9 1EQ)

      ISBN: 978-1-910493-03-8

      Meditations from the station of oi

      based on a wood-cut

      by UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

      from the seriesTHE SIXTY-NINE STATIONS

      OF THE KISOKAIDO ROAD

      (c. 1834-42)

      OCTOBER 1ST - DECEMBER 8TH 1997

      After a visit to the Hiroshige Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London during September 1997, I purchased a pack of ten cards, thinking they were all different, with a view to writing a poem on each to celebrate various

      relatives' and friends' birthdays. 

      When it turned out the cards carried the same illustration - that of The Station of Oi. from the artist's series of sixty-nine woodcuts based on the stations of the Kisokaido Road - I decided to attempt ten meditations around the one theme. 

      The first meditation celebrated my daughter Pat's birthday on October 1st, and the last my son Andrew's birthday on December 8th. 

      Those in between are all written for friends. 

      The final meditation relates to me personally and is a statement about my own confused journey at my sixty-ninth station of life.

      1:  No Choice

      for pat - on her own journey

      it would be great to stay indoors

      from the difficult

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