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James Keir Baxter (29 June 1926 – 22 October 1972) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture.He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures.
James M. Baxter (1845–1909), African-American school principal in Newark, New Jersey; James Reid Baxter (1865–1908), New Zealand murderer; James Phinney Baxter III (1893–1975), American historian
A casting in concrete of "The Māori Jesus" by James K Baxter. The movement started with Louis Johnson, who started up the Poetry Yearbook which ran from 1951 to 1964. In part, it was a reaction to Allen Curnow's dictum of localism in NZ poetry, emphasising universalism, but both the Wellington Group and Curnow liked to use some degree of Māori symbolism.
Dennison seeks to overcome the interpretation of Baxter's engagement with te ao Māori in terms of a simplistic dichotomy between Māori and Pākehā; spiritual and rational; pre-modern and modern. In Baxter's later poetry, Dennison finds that Baxter's use of te ao Māori is not for the purposes of setting up an opposition to Pākehā culture ...
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In early 2019, Newton was the first reviewer of a collection of letters by James K. Baxter, edited by Baxter's friend John Weir. [25] Writing in New Zealand online magazine The Spinoff , [ 26 ] Newton observed that as a result of the publication of these letters "it's no longer possible to talk about [Baxter] without addressing the ways that he ...