Backwards to forwards
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Kevin Ireland.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Ireland, Kevin, 1933-; Poets, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Echoing the erratic shape of remembrance, Kevin Ireland's second volume of memoirs is 'derived from impressions, conversations, anecdotes and poems, and its vague focus is a trip to Eastern Europe', which he took by chance in 1959. Leading indirectly and haphazardly towards and away from this single happening - leaping from London to Bulgaria to New Zealand and back - it explores the process of recollection itself. Outlining Kevin's experiences of friends, love and work - in such diverse places as a 'translation polishing' office in Bulgaria and the 'revisionists' department of The Times - this book shows the growth of a writer and his unique perceptions of the 1950s, 60s and beyond.
Notes: Continues author's memoir: Under the bridge & over the moon, published in 1998.