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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.
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 ...
James K Baxter and Illingworth first met in Auckland soon after Illingworth's arrival in New Zealand in the early fifties. The move to Dunedin in 1966 to take up the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, reunited Illingworth with Baxter who was the Robert Burns Fellow at the time. [31] The two men remained close friends for life.
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The Globe Theatre in Dunedin, built by Patrick and Rosalie Carey in 1961 supported New Zealand poet and author James K. Baxter to write plays in the 1970s, they also presented Greek classics such as Euripides, the first production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett in New Zealand, and other New Zealand work such as A State of Siege adapted ...
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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.
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