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Objective: The risk of repetition of deliberate self-harm peaks in the first 7 days after a deliberate self-harm episode. However, thus far no studies have examined the risk factors for repeating deliberate self-harm during this short-term period. We aimed to investigate the effects of socio-demographic factors, self-harm method and mental health factors in adolescents (10-19 years old) and young adults (20-29 years old). Methods: We used data linkage of population-wide administrative records from hospital inpatients and emergency departments to identify all the deliberate self-harm-related episodes that occurred in adolescents and young adults in Western Australia from 2000 to 2011. Logistic regression with generalised estimating equations was used for the analyses. Results: The incidence of repeating deliberate self-harm within the first 7 days after an index episode was 6% (403/6,768) in adolescents and 8% (842/10,198) in young adults. Socio-demographic risk factors included female gender and socioeconomic disadvantage. Compared with non-poisoning, self-poisoning predicted increased risk of having a repeated deliberate self-harm episode in males, but not in females. Borderline personality, impulse-control and substance use disorders diagnosed within one week before and one week after an index deliberate self-harm episode conferred the highest risk, followed by depressive and anxiety disorders. Having a preceding deliberate self-harm episode up to 7 days before an index episode was a strong predictor for the future repetition of a deliberate self-harm episode. Conclusion: Having a repeated deliberate self-harm episode within the first 7 days was related to a wide range of factors present at an index deliberate self-harm episode including socio-demographic characteristics, deliberate self-harm method and co-existing psychiatric conditions. These factors can inform risk assessments tailored to adolescents and young adults respectively to reduce the repetition of deliberate self-harm within a short but critical period, potentially contributing to reduce the repetition of deliberate self-harm in the long term.

This book is a revelation. Iwi history, traditions and philosophy told in the parlance of the people, utilising te reo Māori and Māori literary forms including karakia, waiata, whakapapa and kōrero paki. Ko Tautoro te Pito o Tōku Ao: A Ngāpuhi Narrative presents a richly detailed and intricately woven narrative which draws the reader in to the places and people who are Ngāpuhi nui tonu. Author Hōne Sadler takes the reader on a journey into the intellectual history of Ngāpuhi which, though based on evidence the author presented to the Waitangi Tribunal in support of the WAI 1040 Te Paparahi o Te Raki claim, in book format reads more as a tribal manifesto. Indeed, Sadler's work aligns with Muskogee Creek and Cherokee literary scholar Craig Womack's assertion that, 'To exist as a nation, the community needs a perception of nationhood, that is, stories…that help them imagine who they are as a people, how they came to be, and what cultural values they wish to preserve.'[i] Accordingly, this book plants a stake firmly, deliberately and articulately in the ground by drawing together multiple narrative strands in a complex introductory account poised at this moment in Ngāpuhi history.


[i] Craig Womack, Red on Red: Native American Literary Nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, p. 26.

Working Lives envelops the reader visually and textually into the industrial world of work on 'the Flat' in Dunedin, circa 1900. Erik Olssen has built a collection of photographs, paintings and cartoons to reveal a time when direct relationships between workers and employers, skill and what was crafted, were valued and primarily local. If you were treated badly at work, you had direct access to your employer and their reputation. If you purchased a pair of shoes that had a fault in the seam, you knew who had made them and the standard of their work mattered. This book invites us to celebrate community, and then to mourn its loss, because deindustrialisation has eradicated such industrial workplace communities over the last thirty years.

In Part Two of Man Alone John Mulgan describes a farm in the fen country of Northamptonshire: "Poets had moved in this country once, Cowper and John Clare, but few poets moved there now." The significance of the reference to these two poets, both of whom had been institutionalized for insanity and both of whom found solace in working the land, cannot be underestimated for Mulgan's emotional characterization of the main character, Johnson. This essay focuses on some of Mulgan's references to English Romantic poetry (William Cowper, John Clare, and Lord Byron in particular) and how these references evoke his melancholy frame of mind.

Although his background was in science, the ambassador reminded me that, because he was a Russian, art and poetry were deeply, deeply rooted in his psyche. It followed that he knew well the Moscow writers' centre, the Gorkiy Institute, which I had visited with the poets Ian Wedde and Tusiata Avia a few months earlier. (We had stood in the room where Mayakovsky made his last public address, and beside the desk where he wrote some of his greatest verse...) Not far from Red Square, the Gorkiy Institute is a part of the Russian soul, he said, just as literature and art are. A Russian can never be a stranger to poetry.

The articles in this issue cover a wide range of subjects, from undiscovered serialised literary novels and novellas in the nineteenth century to prisoner of war resistance to clothing regulations during World War Two.

The Battle of Boulcott's Farm, in which a Māori war party attacked the garrison of a British military outpost in the Hutt Valley, took place over several hours on 16 May 1846. Since then, the public memory of this relatively minor incident has been remarkably persistent. The story of the battle has been told in poetry and prose; in print, on stage and on screen; and in memorials and museums. As the story has evolved over time, it has focused on different themes: British military heroism; civic progress; and Māori resistance to colonial injustice.

In 2012 the Alexander Turnbull Library purchased a large collection of writer/historian James Cowan's (1870-1943) working papers, adding to an already substantial holding. This descriptive article focuses on the arrangement and description of these papers, and the subsequent curation of the exhibition Borderland: The World of James Cowan, curated by Ariana Tikao. The article discusses the archival principles of provenance and original order in relation to these papers, and also issues surrounding the physical arrangement and the creation of the records. It goes on to delineate the structure of the exhibition, describing key themes of Borderland such as the Ōrākau battle, Cowan's involvement with film, Pākehā Māori, and Cowan's connections with Tikao's own whānau, of Banks Peninsula.