I bought the bone people from Nigel Cox at Unity Books, and read it in a kind of trance of recognition and longing – along with, it seemed, everybody else in Aotearoa. To visit my friend Kathryn Irvine, the typesetter, I would push my way through long galleys of type hanging up to dry – while the newspaper wasn’t being published, Salient had taken on typesetting a novel for the Spiral Collective, as a commercial job.ġ983 turned into 1984. Late 1983 I was coming to the end of my year as a teaching assistant in the English department – marking exams, not getting on with my MA, hanging out in the Salient office. Publisher Fergus Barrowman recalls the world of 1980s publishing in Aotearoa and his interactions with the late Keri Hulme.
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