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Reverse engineering, John McCrystal
The Infinite Air
Fiona Kidman
Vintage
ISBN 9781869797928
Of all the technological accomplishments in a century studded with them, the advances made in heavier-than-air aviation between 1903 and 1939 must have seemed to those alive at the time to be the most symbolic of the perfectibility of humanity. When the French inventor and pioneering aviator Louis Blériot managed the first aerial crossing of the English channel, it fired the European imagination. WWI provided an acceleration of aircraft technology, and sparked a golden age of aviation. Aero clubs sprang up all over England, and a plane and the ability to fly it became de rigueur for the well-to-do.
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Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 107, John McCrystal, Spring 2014, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature and Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature and Review
Collecting and restoring, John Horrocks
Where Your Left Hand Rests Fiona Kidman Godwit, $29.00, ISBN 9781869621773 As Fiona Kidman points out herself, it is half a lifetime ago since her first book of poems, Honey and Bitters, was published in 1975. Her new collection…
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Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Godwit, Issue 92, John Horrocks, Summer 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
A dollop of literary life, Sue McCauley
Beside the Dark Pool Fiona Kidman Vintage, $37.99, ISBN 9781869790592 Such a seductive title for a memoir, hinting at murky depths of angst, turmoil and scandal. The stuff we hope, in fact expect, to find in the autobiography of a…
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Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 87, Spring 2009, Sue McCauley, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review
Skewed unforgettable normalities, Catharina van Bohemen
At the End of Darwin Road – A Memoir Fiona Kidman Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869419448 Muck: A Memoir Craig Sherborne Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735683 Digging for Spain: A Writer’s Journey Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877361968 “The…
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Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Craig Sherborne, Fiona Kidman, Issue 81, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review