tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post6815708926096706423..comments2024-03-29T07:33:59.039+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: i. m. Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008)Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-70290335857620973492008-02-02T23:09:00.000+13:002008-02-02T23:09:00.000+13:00The dates are wrong - that should be Hone -1939 an...The dates are wrong - that should be Hone -1939 and me - 1969.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-53771428151023457982008-01-29T00:52:00.000+13:002008-01-29T00:52:00.000+13:00I met Hone Tuwhware - I met him at the University ...I met Hone Tuwhware - I met him at the University at a function for a mag produced by a creative poetry class - he and I had both worked at the Railway Workshops. Me in 1960 and he in 1929! I found I got on with him well straight away. I mentioned how people chalked things on the wagons and he recounted how he was writing a poem on one and someone asked: "Who do you think you are, Shakespear?" he said that he said: "Who's Shakespear?" OK he was probably a young man so this is probably a true story. We laughed about it in any case.<BR/><BR/>Previously I had heard him read to students (I was back at Uni doing then Stage one NZ Lit) he read well. <BR/><BR/>I met him at an art gallery and I recited a poem of mine (I used to perform it at the Little Maidment Theatre when I had a show there) - - he just laughed when I finished.<BR/><BR/>I liked Hone and his poetry is great.<BR/><BR/>Hone Tuwhare was a commnunist - he was of the working class - a boilermaker. He was influenced by R A K Mason who was also communist. Although how much they were defined by that is debatable - obviously in different ways. Of course he wasn't just "a communist" - but he had strong left wing views / sympathies - politics...the was primarily a poet and one of NZ's greatest.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com