How We Remember New Zealanders and the First World War

This collection of writings stands as an important reflection on the ways in which New Zealanders remember their past—be it through a poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, or a name on a plaque in a small town. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers, and other prominent figures reflect on various forms of remembering and remembering, 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.