The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780994141569)

Vendor: Simon Wilson
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017

$30.00

The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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This annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays is made for anyone who thinks there's little to stimulate intelligent well-informed debate in the media anymore and who hungers for some brain food.

Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity - Jess Berentson-Shaw on social investment - Andrew Judd on racism - Carys Goodwin on climate change - Conor Clarke on dirt - David Cohen on Popper, Plato, Hegel and Marx - Emma Espiner on a tikanga Maori world - Gilbert Wong on growing up Chinese - Giselle Byrnes on why universities matter - Jo Randerson on dying - Mamari Stephens on our threatened marae - Victor Rodger on being actually brown - Maria Majsa on Johnny Rotten - Max Harris on dreams - Mike Joy and Kyleisha Foote on dams - Raf Manji on a new progressive agenda - Sarah Laing on menstruation - Sylvia Nissen on youth and politics - Teena Brown Pulu on three Tongan funerals - Tim Watkin on explaining Trump - Simon Wilson on a radical centre.



Author: Simon Wilson
ISBN-10: 0994141564
ISBN-13: 9780994141569
Publisher: Massey University
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Simon Wilson
By Simon Wilson
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Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald. He is a former editor of Metro, Cuisine and Consumer magazines, and has also been chief subeditor for the New Zealand Listener and a commissioning editor for book publisher AH & AW Reed. Simon was chair of the non-fiction judges panel at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His novel The Age of Light was published in 1994. He is the winner of many journalism awards, both as a writer and an editor, including magazine of the year (for both Cuisine and Metro), feature writer of the year (twice), first-person essayist of the year, opinion writer of the year and reviewer of the year. He is a recipient of a President's Award and the Auckland Cup from Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.

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