Dear Neil Roberts
Author(s): Airini Beautrais
It is November 18, 1982, and Neil Ian Roberts is 22 years old. He walks up to the Police Computer Centre in Whanganui, at 12:35am. Shortly after, there was an explosion. Neil committed suicide attempting to destroy that computer center, but who was Neil Roberts? This book is the search for the story of a quiet young man, an anarchist, a figure who moves differently, or vanishes altogether, in different versions of history. As much a work of documentary as poetry, this extraordinary collection considers the uncomfortable event of Neil Roberts s death, its significance in the context of 1980s New Zealand, and how this action has reverberated through others lives, including the poet s own."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Victoria University of Wellington Press
- : Victoria University of Wellington Press
- : 01 October 2014
- : New Zealand
- : 01 November 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Airini Beautrais
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 821.3
- : 64