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A lonely Orpheus, Liam McIlvanney
The Snake-Haired Muse: James K Baxter and Classical Myth Geoffrey Miles, John Davidson and Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736581 “What happens is either meaningless to me, or it is mythology.” Though James K Baxter’s vatic pronouncement…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Geoffrey Miles, Issue 97, James K Baxter, John Davidson, Liam McIlvanney, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Being a bard, Dougal McNeill
Selected Poems of James K Baxter Paul Millar (ed) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869404611 Maurice Shadbolt called Baxter “a Bard, our only one”. It’s unusual now to read the term used without irony or self-consciously distancing care; but, with…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dougal McNeill, Issue 91, James K Baxter, Paul Millar, Spring 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poets for the ear, Hugh Roberts
James K Baxter: Poems Sam Hunt (ed) Auckland University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781869404345 Doubtless: New and Selected Poems Sam Hunt Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 9781877333811 Googling the phrase “New Zealand’s greatest poet” finds hits evenly divided between James K…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Craig Potton Publishing, Hugh Roberts, Issue 87, James K Baxter, Sam Hunt, Spring 2009
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Pioneers of bicultural spirituality, Paul Morris
Ratana: The Prophet Keith Newman Raupo, $40.00, ISBN 978014310972 Double Rainbow: James Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune John Newton Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736037 Pakeha and Maori find themselves in Martin Heidegger’s phrase “thrown” together in our…
Tagged with: Issue 87, James K Baxter, John Newton, Keith Newman, Paul Morris, Raupo, Spring 2009, Victoria University Press
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Speaking frankly of Frank and James K, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson’s Centenary ed Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford Cape Catley, $49.99, ISBN 0908561938 O Jerusalem – James K Baxter: An Intimate Memoir Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270385 Two icons…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Frank Sargeson, Graeme Lay, Hazard Press, Issue 59, James K Baxter, Mike Minehan, Spring 2002, Stephen Stratford, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Young Jim, W H Oliver
Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K Baxter’s correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 ed Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 086473400X I began this book thinking that a shorter one might have been enough for a smallish collection of…
Tagged with: Issue 54, James K Baxter, Noel Ginn, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Buying into Baxter? Rob Jackaman
Beyond the Palisade James K Baxter (ed Paul Millar) Oxford University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 19 558406 6 Autumn Testament James K Baxter (ed Paul Millar) Oxford University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 19 558386 8 Not arriving in New Zealand…
Tagged with: Issue 39, James K Baxter, Paul Millar, Rob Jackaman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Wielding the jawbone of an ass, Fleur Adcock
I last saw Jim Baxter towards the end of 1962, eating steak and chips for lunch in a restaurant on Lambton Quay. I was about to leave for England, but not so imminently that I felt the need to make…
More than the myth he became, Tom Beard
I was four when Baxter died and living on the other side of the world. It seems that everyone here has a Baxter anecdote ‑ something along the lines of “I remember finding Jim passed out next to my letterbox”…
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