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Home Base
poems - life as a regular force cadet 1964-1966
Brief Description
Keith's stepmother, 'Maw', gives him an ultimatum — at fifteen, he must either leave school to work or join the army. Faced with this choice, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet. Home Base is a snapshot...
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Home Base
Home Base is a candid and often humorous look at the lives of Regular Force Cadets. It's also a memoir of Keith's adolescence depicted through handwritten diary entries, photographs, maps and poems.
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Keith's stepmother, 'Maw', gives him an ultimatum — at fifteen, he must either leave school to work or join the army. Faced with this choice, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet.
Home Base is a snapshot of Keith Westwater's boy-soldier life in the New Zealand Army during the 1960s. Transitioning from a motherless and peripatetic childhood depicted in No One Home, the sequel, Home Base, is where Keith finally finds a place to call home: underneath Mount Ruapehu's shadow and amongst his fellow cadets.
From spit-polished 'brightly black' boots to doing 'the marchie marchie', Home Base offers a candid and often humorous look at the lives of Regular Force Cadets. It's also a memoir of Keith's adolescence, depicted through handwritten diary entries, photographs, maps, and poems.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781988595467
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 November 2021
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Lower Hutt poet Keith Westwater has received or been shortlisted for awards in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland, and has been selected for ten anthologies. He's published three previous collections of poetry and a chapbook. Keith writes about his work on his blog, Some Place Else.
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