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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.
Writer James K. Baxter, born in Dunedin in 1926 and wrote many of his plays there in the 1960s in association with Rosalie and Patric Carey's Globe Theatre; Playwright Roger Hall; Short story writer O. E. Middleton; Brian Turner, poet and former Hockey International; Catherine Chidgey, author, who now lives in Dunedin; Writer and publisher A.H ...
James Baxter (sportsman) (1870–1940), English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist Jim Baxter (Australian footballer) (1887–1952), Australian rules footballer James Baxter (American football) (1892–1961), American football player and coach
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 ...
In the days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York City, many social media users took it upon themselves to try to solve the mystery of who killed him — and why.
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.
TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a request Dec. 9 to pause legislation that could ban the app, until the Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. by early next year or face a ban ...