How We Remember - New Zealanders and the First World War

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

John Campbell, Cecil Bernard Carrington, of Awakino
John R. Broughton, Te Ao o Tumatauenga: A Theatre of War
Jane Hurley, Gallipoli: Not Dead Yet, But a Prisoner in Turkey
Monty Soutar, Kua Whewehe Matou!: Breaking up the Maori Contingent and the ordering home of four of its officers
Christopher Pugsley, Gallipoli Footprints
Charles Ferrall, Maurice Shadbolt’s Gallipoli Myth
Anna Rogers, Fanny’s War
David Grant, Mark Briggs: Absolutism and the Price of Dissent
Paul Diamond, ‘I Discovered a Scandal and Mr Mackay Shot Me’: Retelling Charles Mackay and D’Arcy Cresswell’s First
World War
Redmer Yska, The First World War and Truth
John Priestley, Waves of War
Simon During, The Sins
Dave Armstrong, King and Country – a dramatic journey through the First World War
C.K. Stead, The First World War – Close up from a Distance
Jenny Haworth, Behind the Twisted Wire: Studies of First World War Art
Sandy Callister, ‘Could be Father in a Lemon Squeezer Hat?’: the Long Shadow of War
John Horrocks, Memorials and Medals: Pinning on the Past like a Decoration
Jock Phillips, Lest We Forget – Remembering, and Forgetting, New Zealand’s First World War
Jane Tolerton, The Blood and the Bones
Hamish Clayton, You Can Only Imagine

272 page, pbk, 232 x 152 mm - Victoria University Press - $40.00

About the editors
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; and Henry Lawson in New Zealand (2012). He and Chris Pugsley are currently editing interviews with Gallipoli veterans from the early 1980s to be published by Victoria University Press.

Harry Ricketts is a poet, literary biographer and essayist, and a Professor in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. His literary biographies include Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War (2010), a group biography of a dozen English war poets.