FIRST THINGS
by Harry Ricketts
(THWUP, $35)
We owe Harry Ricketts. He’s a poet, critic, biographer, even sports historian. He’s been an academic (English at Victoria University of Wellington), and co-editor of the former review journal NZ Books. Now comes this lucid memoir of his first three decades, ending not long before he leaves England for the Antipodes.
He’s born in Malaya, during
