Home Base - Poems on life as a Regular Force Cadet 1964-1966
Author(s): Keith Westwater
New Zealand Poetry | New Zealand
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : The Cuba Press
- : The Cuba Press
- : 01 August 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : Keith Westwater
- : paperback
- : near fine
- : 184