Download or read book James K Baxter written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James K. Baxter (1926-72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, 'the most human of poets': a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a 'lively sinner' who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, 'from his various quarrels with God, self, society and death emerged a body of work which reveals him to be not merely the most accessible and complete poet to have lived in New Zealand, but also one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.'John Weir's definitive selection of James K. Baxter's best poems?has been made from the more than three thousand poems?that comprise his literary legacy.
Download or read book Selected Poems of James K Baxter written by Paul Millar and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1972, when James K. Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K. Baxter is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar, Paul Millar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks - from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K. Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.
Download or read book Selected poems written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James K Baxter written by James K. Baxter and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand' s greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisade, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life' s work, contained in this four-volume set, runs to just over 3000 poems, more than half of which have never before been published. John Weir, a fellow poet, friend and confidant of Baxter, has achieved the Herculean task of sorting these into a coherent order, noting where poems have been reworked or repurposed, their possible inspirations and influences, and Baxter' s own thoughts about his work.Baxter' s poetry is rich with imagery and mythology, with themes of nature, religion, social commentary and human frailty. It ranges from the spiritual to the obscene, from simple children' s rhymes and witty epigrams to epic ballads and sophisticated modernist works. He claimed the purpose of art was ' to provide a healthy and permanent element of rebellion' , and that ' poetry should contain moral truth' .
Download or read book Collected Poems James K Baxter written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of James K Baxter (1926-1972) has won wide acclaim. First published in 1982, this selection of 200 poems from all periods of his writing has become the standard introduction to his work for the student and general reader. The full range of his poetry is represented and the important sequences have been included in full. The editor, himself a poet and critic, was also a close friend of James K. Baxter.
Download or read book James K Baxter written by James K Baxter and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K. Baxter later became a friend and mentor who greatly influenced the unconventional poetic course Sam Hunt's life would take. Here, Hunt offers a selection of 50 poems by Baxter that have made an indelible impression on the grooves of his brain and tongue; poems he has lived with, road-tested and recited around New Zealand for more than 40 years. Hunt has included in the selection a range of the very familiar and the less familiar of Baxter's poems, dating from 1945 to 1972. In his substantial introduction, Hunt offers his memories of Jim Baxter and explains his selection. James K. Baxter: Poems offers a fresh, uniquely personal look at the work of Baxter, a rare insight into the creative relationship between two leading writers, and reminds how crucial it is that we listen to our poets.
Download or read book James K Baxter written by Sam Hunt and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including 50 poems by revered New Zealand poet and social activist James K. Baxter, this unique and accessibly sized collection offers an insider's view of the man and his work from his longtime friend and fellow poet Sam Hunt. With a range of familiar and lesser-known poems dating from 1945 to 1972, and a substantial essay by Hunt, this compilation offers a fresh and very personal look at the work of an extraordinarily influential poet.
Download or read book Collected Poems written by James K. Baxter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people treasure the poetry of James K. Baxter (1926-1972), a complex and gifted poet at the forefront of his generation. This edition includes all poems from collections and broadsheets. The poems are carefully edited, with brief textual notes where necessary, and are arranged in chronological order of composition. The publication date of each poem is given, along with a full bibliography of Baxter's verse.
Download or read book James K Baxter written by Vincent O'Sullivan and published by Wellington ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... James Baxter (1926-[1972]) is widely recognised as one of the finest poets New Zealand has produced. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, linked with many literary, social and religious causes. ..."--Back cover.
Download or read book James K Baxter written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In container with reproductions of original paintings by Nigel Brown.
Download or read book New Selected Poems written by James K. Baxter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems which are intended to represent the range of Baxter's work, not just its peaks."
Download or read book James K Baxter written by James Keir Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James K Baxter written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James K. Baxter was not a man of few words, and his private correspondence was no exception. Letters of a Poet, edited by his good friend and frequent correspondent John Weir, contains almost 900 of Baxter's letters from 1939 to 1972, covering his teenage years and entire adult life. Frank, funny, generous, sometimes filthy, packed with poems and musings on love, the Catholic faith, and how to live well and write well, they provide remarkable new insights into his life and work. The two volumes include letters to his parents, Archibald and Millicent Baxter, the conscientious objector Noel Ginn, and many of the leading literary figures of the time, including Charles Brasch, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Fleur Adcock, Lawrence Baigent, Barry Crump, Maurice Shadbolt, W.H. Oliver, Robin Dudding and many more"--Publisher information.
Download or read book Seagull Seagull written by James Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in The Tree House are light and easy read-alouds for classrooms or with toddlers-on-the-couch. James K Baxter wrote these poems when he was teaching in Lower Hutt in the 1950s. Successful in the classroom, they have been regularly reprinted in anthologies and collections and remain popular for their accessible rhythms, humour, and quintessentially New Zealand settings. This new gift edition of Baxter's poems is illustrated by Kieran Rynhart in dramatic spreads and beautifully drawn details.
Download or read book Jerusalem Sonnets written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Palisade written by James K. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Baxter's first poetry book (1944) written when he was 18 and published by Caxton Press. It was greeted with acclaim at the time. The 34 poems were chosen by Baxter to represent the 800 he had written up to that time. The Editor, Paul Millar, contributes an extensive Introduction, and Notes on the poems.
