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Beyond The Palisade by James K. Baxter
32.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Beyond the Palisade, James K. Baxter's first book of poetry, created a sensation when it was originally published in I 944. Baxter, who was just 18 at the time, was hailed as a prodigy. Despite the obvious influences of British Romantic and Modernist poets, he was acclaimed for the confidence with which ...Show more
James K Baxter - Autumn Testament by James K Baxter; Paul Millar (ed.)
32.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
At the time of his death in 1972 James K. Baxter was in the process of correcting the proofs of Autumn Testament. The book thus acquired a symbolic significance beyond the poet's intention. What the title might reasonably have implied - the articulation of a covenant worked out by a man at the height of ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
200.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
James K. Baxter - Poems selected and introduced by Sam Hunt by James K. Baxter; Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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 bec ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 ...Show more
New Selected Poems: James K Baxter by James K. Baxter (ed Paul Millar)
49.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K Baxter is more than a New Zealand poet: the poems in this selection place him among the major poets of the twentieth century. Yet New Zealand lies at the heart of his work, the best of which constitutes an unparalleled, intensely personal engagement with the country, its people, and society. In ...Show more
Seagull Seagull: Poems by James K. Baxter (HB) by James K. Baxter; Kieran Rynhart
29.99 NZD
Category: Children's Poetry
A new gift edition of James K Baxter's classic poems for children, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart. The poems in Seagull Seagull 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 ...Show more
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