You Probably Think This Song Is About You - Kate Camp

Sit back and listen to the stories of Kate Camp's life as told in her recent memoir, "You Probably Think This Song is About You".
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the 70s and 80s, through the boozy pothead years of the 90s, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win.
‘Never apologise, never explain’, Kate’s mother used to say, and whether visiting her boyfriend in prison, canvassing door-to-door for Greenpeace, in a corporate toilet with sodden underwear, or facing the doctor at an IVF clinic, she doesn’t.
The result is a memoir brimming with hard-won wisdom and generous humour; a story that, above all, rings true.

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ABOUT KATE CAMP
Kate Camp has authored 10 books of poems and essays.
For 20 years, she was the voice of Kate’s Klassics, monthly conversations on classic literature with RNZ’s Kim Hill. Kate’s Klassics, a collection of essays based on the Saturday radio segment, was published by Penguin in 2007. Kate is also the author of the essay, On Kissing (Four Winds Press, 2002).
Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University Press is the publisher of Kate's memoir, as well as 7 collections of her poetry -- Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Realia, Beauty Sleep, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls, Snow White’s Coffin, The Internet of Things, and How to Be Happy Though Human.

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Many thanks to Almo's Books and Carterton Creative Communities.
(Author Photo by Ebony Lamb)