Martin Johnston interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 107867
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Johnston, Martin, 1947-1990, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Open access for research & personal copies; permission of literary executor for public use of interviewee's readings of own works.
- Description:
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- 1980 June 23
- 2 sound tape reels (ca. 120 min.)
- Series:
- Hazel de Berg collection ; DeB 1165-1166.
- Summary:
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Johnston recalls his childhood in Bondi and London ; he speaks of his mother, Charmian Clift and father George Johnston ; the family move to the Greek islands of Kalimnos and Hydra where he lived for 10 years ; the foreign artistic colony living on Hydra ; the reasons why his parents left Greece ; his education ; the return to Australia in 1964 and adjustment to the educational systems here ; writing poetry. Johnston reads the poems: "Airport", "Biography", "Scattering layer", "Dross", "Cove", "Spinoza, winter swallows", "Opening","Letter to Syliva Plath", "The sea sucumber", "The house - for Nadia", "Notes from the Noctarium", "In transit", "Esprit d'escolia", "The homecoming".
- Notes:
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-610335420
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (51 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Hazel de Berg collection.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2050 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1980
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