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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 was the most famous and prolific of these poets, and is widely regarded today as the definitive New Zealand poet. [46] Baxter was a controversial figure who was known for his incorporation of European myths into his New Zealand poems, his interest in Māori culture and language, his religious experiences, and the establishment ...
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James K. Baxter: 1926–1972 King Robert, on your anvil stone. Above the lumbering Octagon, To you I raise a brother's horn. Letter to Robert Burns (1967) "The gifted, bawdy & religious poet, Dunedin-born James K. Baxter, was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1967." Janet Frame: born 1924 Having been to church the people are ...
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.
James K. Baxter, The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children; Janet Charman, Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University Press [19] Alan Brunton, Fq, a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous) [20] Cilla McQueen, Soundings, Otago University Press [21]
James K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom; J. P. Clark, Poems ; Allen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, [7] A. D. Hope, Poems [7] Kenneth Slessor, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne, Australia, anthology