Keith westwater (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: New. No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At age seven he loses his mother to a botched operation and with her death loses a place to call home. So Keith and his brother take to the road with a gambling father, staying with relatives when their father can't have them and enduring a stepmother who like a fairy-tale witch `disappears' the boys when she's had enough of them. As the boys make their way through `the motherless woods', Keith draws mental maps of all the places they call home, from Oruru in the far north to halfway down Auckland's Dominion Road. In No One Home Keith draws the maps and writes the poems to open up the memories he locked away as a boy to stop himself feeling sad. An unsentimental collection that tells a story steeped in the people and places it comes from. 88 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 94 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: New. When the earth thrashes under us like a fish, the ordinary words we use to describe the devastation afterwards never seem enough. Lower Hutt poet Keith Westwater harnesses instead the language of science, journalism and myth to adequately express the horror of the Canterbury quakes and their aftermath, lighting on mathematics for the best definition of that thing we need most: resilience. And Keith's thoughts also turn to another kind of devastation that we don't always see even when it's right in front of us, the one caused by the fault lines in society that leave people vulnerable. Here he takes a poet's delight in stacking up words in all sorts of guises to take revenge on such travesties as the self-induced blindness of officialese and the ignorant patter of the boy racer. Keith's poems glitter and spit and sting, chuckle and weep, and sweep the reader along with them. To the stars. 76 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: As New. 76 pages.