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Complete Poems by James K. Baxter (edited by John Weir)
200.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 Palisades, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volu ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
40.00 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
Poems to a Glass Woman 1944-1945 by James K Baxter; John Weir (ed.)
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Written in 1944-5, these poems record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter's first serious love affair. The sequence is published for the first time on the 40th anniversary of the poet's death, 22 October 2013
Seagull Seagull: Poems by James K. Baxter (HB) by James K. Baxter; Kieran Rynhart
30.00 NZD
Category: 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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