A Kiwi in Kerala
Noel Ginn

	Biographies Biography, Poetry Price: $29.99 Availability: now Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 165mm x 230mm IBSN: 978-1-877448-37-9 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

After a colourful and productive career in New Zealand and Australia, Noel Ginn lived out much of his retirement in a village in Kerala, the lush southern state of India.

Remembered as a conscientious objector jailed in World War II, Noel Ginn published profound poems in his Dweller on the   Threshold. Interest in his experiences and perceptions grew with Paul Millar’s Spark to a Waiting Fuse, about Ginn’s influential correspondence with the young poetic prodigy James K Baxter.

Noel Ginn’s Kerala journals are fragrant with the spice of daily life in India and rich with his reflections — sometimes passionate, often subtle — on life’s transitions. Observing within and between the cultures of India and Aotearoa New Zealand, Noel Ginn writes with an acute eye, aroha and gentle humour.