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May 2014
Paperback, 232 x 152mm
272 pages
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.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Cecil Bernard Carrington, of Awakino
by John Campbell
Te Ao o Tumatauenga: A Theatre of War
by John R. Broughton
Gallipoli: Not Dead Yet, But a Prisoner in Turkey
by Jane Hurley
Kua Whewehe Matou!: Breaking up the Maori Contingent and the ordering home of four of its officers
by Monty Soutar
Gallipoli Footprints
by Christopher Pugsley
Maurice Shadbolt’s Gallipoli Myth
by Charles Ferrall
Fanny’s War
by Anna Rogers
Mark Briggs: Absolutism and the Price of Dissent
by David Grant
‘I Discovered a Scandal and Mr Mackay Shot Me’: Retelling Charles Mackay and D’Arcy Cresswell’s First World War
by Paul Diamond
The First World War and Truth
by Redmer Yska
Waves of War
by John Priestley
The Sins
by Simon During
King and Country – a dramatic journey through the First World War
by Dave Armstrong
The First World War – Close up from a Distance
by C.K. Stead
Behind the Twisted Wire: Studies of First World War Art
by Jenny Haworth
‘Could be Father in a Lemon Squeezer Hat?’: the Long Shadow of War
by Sandy Callister
Memorials and Medals: Pinning on the Past like a Decoration
by John Horrocks
Lest We Forget – Remembering, and Forgetting, New Zealand’s First World War
by Jock Phillips
The Blood and the Bones
by Jane Tolerton
You Can Only Imagine
by Hamish Clayton
Charles Ferrall teaches English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington. Among his books are Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics (2001); The Trials of Eric Mareo (2002), co-written with Rebecca Ellis; East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination (2006), co-edited with Paul Millar and Keren Smith; Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850–1950 (2009), co-written with Anna Jackson; Henry Lawson in New Zealand (2012); and Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans (2015), co-edited with Christopher Pugsley.
Harry Ricketts is a poet, literary biographer and essayist, and a Professor in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He has written and edited more than twenty-five books, including literary biographies, personal and critical essays, and poetry. His literary biographies include Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War (2010), a group biography of a dozen English war poets.
