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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.
Domesticated honeybees can compete for resources with wild pollinators, like butterflies, beetles, moths, and wild bees—and over 40% of these species already face extinction in the coming decades.
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 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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Dallas was born in Invercargill, the daughter of Frank and Minnie Mumford.She became blind in one eye at 15, then spent three years at the Southland Technical College and was engaged at 19.
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 ...
Maunder in 2023. Paul Allan Maunder MNZM (born 8 February 1945) is a New Zealand film director, playwright and cultural activist. He is best known for his 1979 film of the novel Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt, his 1983 play Hemi about the life of James K. Baxter, and his work in community-based theatre.