How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War

Description

A poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, a name on a plaque in a small town: we remember the First World War in so many ways. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers and other prominent figures reflect on our different forms of remembering and re-membering, what we have cherished and valued, forgotten and ignored, constructed and reframed.

Charles Ferrall teaches English literature at Victoria University-Wellington. He is the author of several books, including Henry Lawson in New Zealand and Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics. Harry Ricketts is a poet, a literary biographer and essayist, and a professor in the English program at Victoria University-Wellington. He is the author of the literary biography Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War.