James K. Baxter (1926–1972)
Autor(a) de Collected Poems
About the Author
Considered New Zealand's most significant poet, James K. Baxter has also been called one of the most remarkable English-language poets of the mid-twentieth century. Born into an educated family in New Zealand, he spent most of his life there and became a much-loved and respected figure in his mostrar mais homeland. Starting out as something of a boy prodigy in the field of poetry, Baxter went on to face alcoholism, then to convert to Catholicism. In his last years, some considered him a saint as he wandered around New Zealand "barefoot, long-bearded, patched and baggy." Baxter published his first poetry in 1944. He also wrote about 20 plays-many of them produced successfully-four books of literary commentary and criticism, numerous religious essays, and fiction. His Collected Poems is still available, but most of his work in other genres is out of print. Collected Poems won a 2016 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, Gerard Reid Award for best book and Best non-illustrated book (designed by Spencer Levine and Fergus Barrowman). Believing strongly in the poet's vocation, in the poet as a prophet, Baxter was also a skilled artist. His work, which is characterized by a technical conservatism and an adherence to formality, reflects his familiarity with a wide range of poets, including the English romantics, Greek and Latin poets, and modernists, such as Yeats, Hopkins, and Hardy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de James K. Baxter
The holy life and death of Concrete Grady : various uncollected and unpublished poems (1976) 5 cópias
Six faces of love, 5 cópias
A small ode on mixed flatting 4 cópias
Ode to Auckland & other poems 4 cópias
Letter to Peter Olds 4 cópias
Recent trends in New Zealand poetry 4 cópias
A death song for Mr Mouldybroke 2 cópias
The Junkies & The Fuzz 2 cópias
Blow, wind of fruitfulness 2 cópias
Rain 2 cópias
The fallen house : poems 2 cópias
James K. Baxter : Complete Prose : Dunedin and Christchurch: the Early Years, 1943-1948 : The Wellington Years,… (2015) 2 cópias
Four God songs 2 cópias
Howrah Bridge, and other poems 2 cópias
Unpublished original of the 'Poem at the Vernal Equinox' 1 exemplar(es)
The Seagull 1 exemplar(es)
Traveller's Litany 1 exemplar(es)
Verse 1951 1 exemplar(es)
Ballad of Calvary Street 1 exemplar(es)
New Zealand in Colur 1 exemplar(es)
A Selection of Poetry 1 exemplar(es)
The Coaster 1 exemplar(es)
The Fireman : Vol. 5 1 exemplar(es)
A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar : A conversation between Uncle Sam & the Rt. Hon. Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New… 1 exemplar(es)
Poems Unpleasant : Baxter, Johnson & Vogt 1 exemplar(es)
The night shift : poems on aspects of love 1 exemplar(es)
A walking stick for an old man 1 exemplar(es)
The Ships 1 exemplar(es)
I'm a tree 1 exemplar(es)
Oil 1 exemplar(es)
The Trawler 1 exemplar(es)
Chosen Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Ode to Auckland 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The colour of distance : New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand (2006) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Lie deep my love : 4 pt mixed vocals choir and soloists — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Baxter, James Keir
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-06-29
- Data de falecimento
- 1972-10-22
- Local de enterro
- Jerusalem, New Zealand
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- New Zealand
- Local de nascimento
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Local de falecimento
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Locais de residência
- Jerusalem, New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand (birthplace)
Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand - Educação
- University of Otago
Wellington Teachers' Training College
Victoria University of Wellington - Ocupação
- poet
postal worker
teacher
editor
critic
social commentator - Relacionamentos
- Sturm, J. C. (Jacquie Baxter) (wife)
Baxter, Archibald (father)
Baxter, Millicent (mother) - Premiações
- Robert Burns Fellowship (1966)
Robert Burns Fellowship (1967)
Membros
Resenhas
Horse de James K. Baxter
Terse, so very kiwi, this superb novella is marred only by the era in which it was written, and knowledge we now have that Baxter's world was as chauvinistic as Horse's. Sexual utilitarianism included, this is a brutal representative of the bleak coming of age, man alone literature that was birthed by figures like John Mulgan and executed, we might hope by Keri Hulme and others. Brutalist depiction of an era that staggered from fuck to hangover to petty crime to groggy insight only to begin the cycle again.… (mais)
In the same way that he broke his poetry down to simple forms, divested of polish, this book is - really - a collection of christian thought broken down in the same way. Simple christian ideas bounded intimately to everyday occurrences around the Jerusalem community.
A bit much Jesus for me, really - and I'm kinda tolerant - but a lovely, simple book all the same.
A bit much Jesus for me, really - and I'm kinda tolerant - but a lovely, simple book all the same.
Coffee table size illustrated book with excellent descriptions of the photographs.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 85
- Also by
- 9
- Membros
- 494
- Popularidade
- #50,038
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 58
- Favorito
- 1