The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

Maintaining a memory Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais VUP Press, 2014, ISBN 9780864739735 Reviewed by Ann R Key - review originally published in AARGH! issue 3 I’M NOT from New Zealand, and I'm also not much of a sophisticate when it comes to poetry. I read what I like, skim, or ignore the rest, I can’t really tell you why I like what I do or what is good about it, just that for whatever reason a particular line or idea, mood or thought spoke to me and that was enough. But don’t ask me about structure or form, or poetic traditions because I don’t know. So I might not be the best person to review Airini Beautrais’ new book of poetry, Dear Neil Roberts (Victoria Press, 2014). But I am an anarchist and I have been here in New Zealand long enough that I had been told the story of Neil Roberts before. In case you haven’t, the short version is that on 18 November 1982 anarchist and punk Neil Roberts blew himself up with a bomb he exploded outside the Wanganui Computer Centre. The ...

Maintaining a memory Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais VUP Press, 2014, ISBN 9780864739735 Reviewed by Ann R Key - review originally published in AARGH! issue 3 I’M NOT from New Zealand, and I'm also not much of a sophisticate when it comes to poetry. I read what I like, skim, or ignore the rest, I can’t really tell you why I like what I do or what is good about it, just that for whatever reason a particular line or idea, mood or thought spoke to me and that was enough. But don’t ask me about structure or form, or poetic traditions because I don’t know. So I might not be the best person to review Airini Beautrais’ new book of poetry, Dear Neil Roberts (Victoria Press, 2014). But I am an anarchist and I have been here in New Zealand long enough that I had been told the story of Neil Roberts before. In case you haven’t, the short version is that on 18 November 1982 anarchist and punk Neil Roberts blew himself up with a bomb he exploded outside the Wanganui Computer Centre. The...

We're trying to keep the shop open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (21. - 23.12.) this coming week to cater for any emergency Xmas present needs. We still have a few of the tee-shirts left that we screenprinted ourselves  - images of revolutionary women.  We even have a few Slingshot and Bottled Wasp diaries left! The shop will then be closed until after New Year. Happy holidays to everyone!

We're trying to keep the shop open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (21. - 23.12.) this coming week to cater for any emergency Xmas present needs. We still have a few of the tee-shirts left that we screenprinted ourselves  - images of revolutionary women.  We even have a few Slingshot and Bottled Wasp diaries left! The shop will then be closed until after New Year. Happy holidays to everyone!

Issue 5 of the Aotearoa Anarchist Review (of Global Hegemony) can be downloaded here .