Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary by Camp, Kate

Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781776923014)

Vendor: Kate Camp
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary by Camp, Kate

Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary

$24.95
Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary by Camp, Kate

Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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In this unique follow-up to her memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You, Kate Camp turns her poet's eye on her 1986 diary. Reading The Diary in its entirety for the first time, she revels in 80s touchstones like Revlon Custom Eyes and Ghostbusters on VHS. But amid the daily details, like smoking menthols in Suzy's Coffee Lounge and wearing Jazzercise tights in a phone box, are moments of drama, even tragedy - being black-out drunk in a spa pool, or watching her father move out of the family home. At the centre of it all is Cameron, his black hair falling over his eyes, intoning in his fake Scottish accent, ' Treat me rough, baby.' These entries - over 100 reproduced in full - are a time capsule of a very different era. The Kate Camp of today responds to the blithe accounts of sex, drugs and risk-taking with horror and admiration. How real are our memories? Can we ever know ourselves? And why is every entry signed off Leather & Chains?

Author: Kate Camp
ISBN-10: 1776923014
ISBN-13: 9781776923014
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2026
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
By Kate Camp
By Kate Camp
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Poet and essayist Kate Camp was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington. She is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2011 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency and the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. She is the author of seven previous collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020), and a collection of autobiographical essays, You Probably Think This Song Is About You (2022).

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