Volume 7 | Number 4 | Issue 30 | October 1997
David Grant explains the rugby nexus with South Africa
Hamish Keith tells how we get our houses in a mess,
Iain Sharp finds narrative depth in Morrissey’s Paradise
Three economists examine the reforms and find different things in them
Tom Brooking finds a nearly empty landscape
Neville Bennett goes reviewing for a laugh
Nicholas Reid relives the Liston sedition trial
Murray King recaps a world that has steamed by
Lauris Edmond discovers some new poets and their publisher
Kim Worthington finds short story writing is deepening
Nelson Wattie recalls Paul Hoffmann
Charlotte MacDonald follows the ups and downs of the NCW
Brian Gaynor charts the ups and downs of the stockmarket
Diane Hebley scans young adult fiction
Janet Hughes looks at how to write and the products of a writing course
Poem: Diana Bridge
Poem: Rae Varcoe
Letters: Alan Loney on Kim Worthington; Stevan Eldred-Grigg on Jane Stafford