Collected Poems - Hardcover

Baxter, James K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195580370 ISBN 13: 9780195580372

Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand, 1981

Synopsis

The publication Collected Poems was a landmark in New Zealand literature. James K. Baxter--a social worker among addicts and the homeless--as a Catholic convert finally settled in and wrote about a small Maori settlement called Jerusalem.
This volume includes over 700 poems which have been previously published, and 50 poems remaining in manuscript.

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Review

"James K. Baxter is an outstanding figure, one of the major English-language poets of the post-war years."--Times Literary Supplement"[Baxter's] work presents an engaging tension between futility and gentle optimism....J.E. Weir has carefully edited this interesting pilgrimage with notes and dates of estimated composition and initial publication."--Choice"A highly significant figure in contemporary literature."--The Times (London)"J.E. Weir's massive collection of Baxter's verse reminds us that in the last analysis he was a poet...a major figure, a major influence--someone to be reckoned with when totting up the poetic score of this century."--World Literature Today "James K. Baxter is an outstanding figure, one of the major English-language poets of the post-war years."--Times Literary Supplement "[Baxter's] work presents an engaging tension between futility and gentle optimism....J.E. Weir has carefully edited this interesting pilgrimage with notes and dates of estimated composition and initial publication."--Choice "A highly significant figure in contemporary literature."--The Times (London) "J.E. Weir's massive collection of Baxter's verse reminds us that in the last analysis he was a poet...a major figure, a major influence--someone to be reckoned with when totting up the poetic score of this century."--World Literature Today "James K. Baxter is an outstanding figure, one of the major English-language poets of the post-war years."--Times Literary Supplement "[Baxter's] work presents an engaging tension between futility and gentle optimism....J.E. Weir has carefully edited this interesting pilgrimage with notes and dates of estimated composition and initial publication."--Choice "A highly significant figure in contemporary literature."--The Times (London) "J.E. Weir's massive collection of Baxter's verse reminds us that in the last analysis he was a poet...a major figure, a major influence--someone to be reckoned with when totting up the poetic score of this century."--World Literature Today "James K. Baxter is an outstanding figure, one of the major English-language poets of the post-war years."--Times Literary Supplement"[Baxter's] work presents an engaging tension between futility and gentle optimism....J.E. Weir has carefully edited this interesting pilgrimage with notes and dates of estimated composition and initial publication."--Choice"A highly significant figure in contemporary literature."--The Times (London)"J.E. Weir's massive collection of Baxter's verse reminds us that in the last analysis he was a poet...a major figure, a major influence--someone to be reckoned with when totting up the poetic score of this century."--World Literature Today

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195580370
• ISBN 13: 9780195580372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 686
• Editor: Weir J.E.