Selected Poems of James K. Baxter

Selected Poems of James K. Baxter PDF Author: Paul Millar
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869405420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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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.

Selected Poems of James K. Baxter

Selected Poems of James K. Baxter PDF Author: Paul Millar
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869405420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
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.

˜Theœ Tree House and Other Poems for Children

˜Theœ Tree House and Other Poems for Children PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Seagull Seagull

Seagull Seagull PDF Author: James Baxter
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ISBN: 9781776572816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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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.

Runes

Runes PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Jerusalem Sonnets

Jerusalem Sonnets PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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ISBN: 9780705505567
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Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Baxter Basics

Baxter Basics PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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ISBN: 9781877448188
Category : Children's poetry, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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In 1954 James K Baxter became a teacher and began writing poems for children. Here for the first time in one volume are the Baxter Basics - a New Zealand classic. BAXTER BASICS were originally published in 1979 as six poems in separate booklets: Rain, I'm a Tree, The Tree House, The Seagull, The Ships and The Firemen. They remain some of the finest examples of children's poetry produced in this country. With their delightful original illustrations by the celebrated Lynley Dodd, Judith Trevelyan, Dawn Johnston and Ernest Papps this volume is a must have for kiwi kids and adults alike.

The Double Rainbow

The Double Rainbow PDF Author: John Newton
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ISBN: 9780864736031
Category : Christian communities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"In 1969, New Zealand's best-known poet, James K. Baxter, moved to Jerusalem on the Whanganui River to establish a community under the mana of the local hapū, Ngāti Hau. The Jerusalem commune proved a magnet for disaffected and damaged young people. As the setting for Baxter's celebrated late works, Jerusalem Sonnets, Jerusalem Daybook and Autumn Testament, it quickly became the country's most famous hippie community, as well as a media byword for the idealism and excess of the emerging youth culture. But what was life really like at Jerusalem, beyond the popular stereotypes? And what did it mean, for Ngāti Hau, to be deluged with long-haired strangers and with the media attention which followed them? Here, for the first time, events are reconstructed from the point of view of James K. Baxter's followers and of the local people who accepted them."--Back cover.

Pig Island Letters

Pig Island Letters PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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Category : New Zealand poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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The Flowering Cross

The Flowering Cross PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Jerusalem Daybook

Jerusalem Daybook PDF Author: James K. Baxter
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ISBN: 9780705503433
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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