
Essay

published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010
Rex Fairburn
New Zealand Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic
by K R Bolton
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A R D (Rex) Fairburn was a central figure in the Golden Age of New Zealand culture. This was the period between the world wars, when an incipient nativist literary and artistic movement started to emerge that was part of the European cultural stream, but was inspired by the New Zealand landscape and the New Zealand people, and was overcoming colonial mimicking.
Fairburn was born in 1904 in modest though middle class circumstances. He was proud of being a fourth generation New Zealander related to the missionary Colenso.
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Essay

published by Retort Magazine, on June 4th, 2006
So I started this experiment that has been bubbling in me for a long time. To submit a legends’ work and see who rejects it. Partly because I wanted to feel better about my own stories and to finally do what most writers have thought about doing but didn’t have the balls . . . → Read More: Sorry, Bukowski by P.L George

Art

published by Retort Magazine, on December 23rd, 2005
Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2005
Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics
In 1958 I wrote the following:
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true . . . → Read More: Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter

Essay

published by Retort Magazine, on July 31st, 2003
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Conducting YOUR Life Without Surrender THE MONEY MATRIX: AN INTRODUCTION By: SecuredParty
“At any given . . . → Read More: The Money Matrix – Conducting YOUR Life Without Surrender