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Cold Spring: Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited and introduced by Paul Millar, 1996; James K. Baxter: Poems, selected and introduced by Sam Hunt, 2009; Poems to a Glass Woman, with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 ...
John Sebastian Dennison (born 28 May 1978) is a New Zealand poet, as well as a poetry scholar who has published on the poetry of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter. Poetry [ edit ]
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
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 ...
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]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
At the University of Otago he became good friends with James K. Baxter, another famous New Zealand poet. In 1949 his poem "The Elegy" was published in Landfall, marking his first significant publication. It was dedicated to his friend Roy Dickson who had died in a mountaineering accident in 1947, having previously accompanied Campbell on trips ...