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P>"Critical Vision "collects together the best articles from the
rare early issues of Headpress journal: long out-of-print
collectors' items. Updated and revised-with the inclusion of new
material-"Critical Vision "is at once a powerful, unique, and often
shocking compendium. Includes:
The true story behind Mr Punch, the Sunset Strip Murders' and a
possible grotesque miscarriage of justice, Hookers for Jesus, two
decades of underground comic books, and incendiary, hitherto
unpublished letters to porn magazines.
Penhalonga, Manicaland, Rhodesia, 1918. A well-liked young teacher
at a local mission school is found dead by a night-watchman -
victim of a warthog's goring. Matabele ex-policeman Samuel Kumalo,
only recently back from the war in France and Tanganyika, is highly
sceptical; warthogs are not aggressive animals. His investigation
opens up a can of writhing worms. The mission station, outwardly so
pious and conservative, is a cover for some very dark activities.
Kumalo's hunt for the killer becomes even more desperate when the
night-watchman is found dead, and Kumalo's own young family is
targeted.
A beautiful Wedgwood biscuit barrel is part of a deceased estate.
When the sealed top is removed by the new owner a wad of
100-year-old documents are found inside. One of the documents is a
posthumous letter from an airman in the Royal Flying Corps in First
World War France and sets off an investigation, the explosive
results of which are revealed in the book. The book is set in 1914
Rhodesia and then moves to France and the killing fields of the
Western Front.
The author began writing narrative verse while scarcely into his
teens. This collection encompasses his experiences in war-torn
Rhodesia in the sixties and seventies, as well as many tableaux of
a purely Canadian nature. They range from 'A visit to the circus',
and the trials and tribulations of an old dancing horse, to his 'In
the Garden' a paean to gardening in North Vancouver. His songs, a
number of which can be heard and seen on Youtube via the attached
hyper-links, range from a fun-filled 'Martini Man' to 'The
Prisoner', a song about race-bias in the North American justice
system. His ballad 'The Last voyage of the Rosy Claire' has echoes
of Gordon Lightfoot's Edmund Fitzgerald, but with a west coast
setting. The song was inspired by the sinking of the BC Ferries'
ship Queen of the North.
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