Home Base : Poems

$25.00
  • Author:
    WESTWATER Keith
  • ISBN:
    9781988595467
  • Publication Date:
    October 2021
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    200
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    The Cuba Press
  • Country of Publication:
Home Base : Poems
Home Base : Poems

Home Base : Poems

$25.00
  • Author:
    WESTWATER Keith
  • ISBN:
    9781988595467
  • Publication Date:
    October 2021
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    200
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    The Cuba Press
  • Country of Publication:

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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.
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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.

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.
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