"Memoir is a perilous journey, where the writer is the subject and the subject is the writer... the potential for self indulgence and narcissism is obvious". So run the words on the back cover of the memoir of poet and writer Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Now When it Rains, published this month by Steele Roberts.
Much of Jeffrey's time as a published writer has come later in life and what came before pays tribute to the idea of living many lives, many ups and downs and twists of fate, including finding a sense of place a turangawaewae.
Jeffrey starts by reading from his writing on embracing Maoritanga as a way of finding that sense of place as a Pakeha New Zealander.
We include a gallery of images included in his book - as much social as personal history.
