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Raiment: A memoir

By Jan Kemp

Book information

Publisher
Massey University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781991016065, 9781991151148
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1295764 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 03:49:43
BIO007000BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyNonfiction

Description

Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman.

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