Home Base

poems - life as a regular force cadet 1964-1966

Home Base
Keith Westwater
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h190 x 150mm - 200pg
11 Oct 2021 NZ
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9781988595467
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Keith' s stepmother ' Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, 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. From a motherless and peripatetic childhood 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 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.
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781988595467
Published: 11 Oct 2021
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 150mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 200

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