Looking for the phoenix
Subtitle: a memoir
By: W.H. Oliver.
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Wellington [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Oliver, W. H. 1925-; Poets, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.; Historians -- New Zealand -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Looking for the phoenix is a wide ranging account; ancestry and early childhood, the influences of feminism, friendship, marriage and family all connect to the more public story"--Back cover.

W.H. Oliver, a central figure in New Zealand's intellectual landscape, reflects here on the decades of his own life, and the history that has shaped him.