First things : a memoir / Harry Ricketts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricketts, Harry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, English--20th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

College teachers--New Zealand--Biography.

College teachers.

Ricketts, Harry.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary genre)

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"First memory. First going hitchhiking. First seeing my father angry. First shotgun. First poem. In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of ' firsts': those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricketts' world, from his first friends and rivals to his first time being caned by a teacher and his first time dropping acid. There are other, more enigmatic firsts here too, like the first time he realised what really mattered, and the first time he began doubting God. 'I wanted to believe in God and, even more, wanted God to believe in me.' Who really were we, back then? Which parts of ourselves get to be remembered and carried along with us, and which parts are gone forever? In First Things, the gaps in between shine as brightly as the memories themselves"--Cover.

Contents:

Fag-end of Empire kid 1950

1963

Sons of heroes 1963

1968

The Oxford effect 1969

1974

Not so much the heat, more the humidity 1974

1979

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Expression manifested: Weston, Kerry. Rautaki Whakaora Kea. English nznb

Other Format:

Online version: First things

ISBN:

9781776921386

1776921380

OCLC:

1434062789

Publisher Number:

90101670437