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Cold Spring: Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited and introduced by Paul Millar, 1996; James K. Baxter: Poems, selected and introduced by Sam Hunt, 2009; Poems to a Glass Woman, with introductory essay by John Weir, 2012; James K. Baxter: Complete Prose, four volume set edited by John Weir, 2015 (Victoria University Press)
The quotation for James K. Baxter on the Wellington Writers Walk: James K. Baxter [30] 1926-1972 I saw the Maori Jesus. walking on Wellington Harbour. He wore blue dungarees. His beard and hair were long. His breath smelt of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. From 'The Maori Jesus' in Collected Poems of James K Baxter ...
Sturm had her first poem published in the student magazine Critic, and was a runner-up in an annual poetry competition to another young New Zealand poet, James K. Baxter. [1] [6] Her first impression of Baxter was that he was "a somewhat dopey-looking individual, not my idea of a poet, but he had a marvellous voice and he knew how to use it". [7]
James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press; Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper Books [13] Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press; Allen Curnow, New and Collected Poems 1941-1995 [5] Maurice Gee, Loving ...
James K. Baxter, posthumous: The Tree House, poems for children; The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944–72, edited by J. E. Weir; Charles Brasch: Home Ground: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press (published posthumously) [19] Allen Curnow, Collected Poems 1933–73 [20]
James K. Baxter, The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing, a parody of 17 New Zealand poets, which some of his fellow poets greeted with acrimony James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle , Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman , The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love , Wellington: Capricorn Press
In his introduction to the 2005 selection, Andrew Johnston wrote, "I couldn't include a poem from Manhire's latest and best book, Lifted, because he is effectively the publisher of Best New Zealand Poems." [3] In 2011 Manhire stepped down from the series editor role, and his poem "The Schoolbus" was selected by editor Bernadette Hall. [4]
Hunt was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland which he attended from 1958 to 1963. At St Peter's [4] Hunt chafed under the Christian Brothers' authoritarianism. He would later recount on numerous occasions an incident in which he was strapped for reciting a poem by James K. Baxter, which had sexual imagery, in the classroom.