Selected Poems of James K. Baxter
Selected Poems of James K. Baxter

Author: Paul Millar

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1869405420

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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.

Collected Poems of James K. Baxter
Collected Poems of James K. Baxter

Author: James K. Baxter

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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"The publication of Baxter's Collected Poems in 1980 was a landmark in New Zealand literature. This reissue includes all poems from collections and broadsheets and some fifty poems selected from manuscript sources by the editor. The texts presented are intended to be definitive; they are carefully edited, with brief textual notes where necessary, and arranged in chronological order of composition. Publication date for each poem is given, along with a full bibliography of Baxter's verse. A glossary of Maori words and phrases helps readers unfamiliar with that language."--BOOK JACKET.

James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter

Author: James K. Baxter

Publisher:

Published: 2023-06-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781776920754

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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.

My Honest Poem
My Honest Poem

Author: Jess Fiebig

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2020-08-13

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1776710606

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A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. "at six, my mother's boyfriend forced his fat hairy hand inside my heart-shaped face for eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BP wrapped individually in pastel wax papers which littered the backseat like sweet-smelling confetti his hand tasted of salt a metallic tang of rust the hot edge of petrol from the pump still lingering on his fingers" My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.

Seagull Seagull
Seagull Seagull

Author: James Baxter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781776572816

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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.

James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter

Author: James K. Baxter

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781776920587

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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' .

The Unaccompanied
The Unaccompanied

Author: Simon Armitage

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1524732435

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From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"—in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.