Martin R Johnson



Powder-monkey for Luigi

He arrived from Italy in 1952. 20 years old with “Just enough English to get by.” Started work at the reservoir in 1955. Was nationalised in Williamstown in 1956. I arrived outside his house one sunny afternoon in 1992. I …

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Travelling Salesman

Was this the end of those dusty by the side of the road women in pinnies times? his good-natured laugh and smile climbed out from behind the steering wheel of his grey bull-nose truck. Cuts of cloth and baby clothes …

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Pissed off with conformity

“Every minute has its secret corridors leading to dark rooms.” — Vladimir Levchev (b. 1957. Lives in Sofia) Pissed off with conformity, the times, the red glow of a dawn which breaks old promises like the shell of an empty …

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“Some time, later, we shall break the archive seals. Sitting together then we shall utter what has never been said before.” Steffen Mensching – Born in 1958 in East Berlin Riight. And what a night we’d make of it, hey! …

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