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Literature & Fiction

Baxter, James K.

Poetry

Oxford University Press

The holy life and death of Concrete Grady: Various uncollected and unpublished poems

The collected poems of James Baxter, who is considered by some critics to be a leading English language poet of this century.

Collected Poems

The poetry of James K Baxter (1926-1972) has won wide acclaim. First published in 1982, this selection of 200 poems from all periods of his writing has become the standard introduction to his work for the student and general reader. The full range of his poetry is represented and the important sequences have been included in full. The editor, himself a poet and critic, was also a close friend of James K. Baxter. General readership as well as poetry lovers and students.

Selected Poems of James K. Baxter (Oxford Poets)

Weir, John

<p>The publication in 1980 of the Collected Poems of New Zealand's greatest poet was a landmark in that country's literature. This volume includes over 700 previously published poems and 50 additional poems remaining in manuscript.</p>

History & Criticism

Cold Spring, James K. Baxter's unpublished second collection of poetry, bridges the gap between his first book, Beyond the Palisade (1944) and Blow Wind of Fruitfulness (1948). Its forty poems - chosen from some three hundred which he wrote at the ages of seventeen and eighteen - cover one ofthe more turbulent periods of his life. After a series of difficulties with his first publisher, Baxter determined never to break up the collection and excluded these poems from his later books. However, the manuscript was recently discovered among the papers of his war-time friend Noel Ginn, andthis intriguing volume can now be read for the first time.

Cold Spring

OUP Australia and New Zealand

James K Baxter's first book, Beyond the Palisade, was originally published in 1944, when he was 18, immediately attracting critical acclaim. These early poems display a variety of poetic forms and feature the sharp, bold imagery so indicative of his later works. They introduce the recurringthemes of regret and loneliness, which were to become the hallmark of Baxter's later work.

Beyond the palisade

<p>A new reissue of the definitive edition of 200 poems chosen from a corpus of 600, the work here ranges across his entire career, both before and after his conversion to Catholicism. This edition includes two poems not in the original, Moss on Plum Branches and A Pair of Sandals, both written in the week of the poet's death.</p>

The Collected Poems of James K. Baxter

1983, oversized hardcover edition, AH Reed, New Zealand, 112 pages.  New Zealand is an absolutely gorgeous place, as this pictorial tribute points out.  The publisher commissioned the photographer to undertake an 18-month photographic journey to capture images for this title and others.  Here is the result of that expedition, with outstanding commentary by Michael King, a noted historian.

New Zealand in colour

Travel

Pictorial

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Runes

The holy life and death of Concrete Grady: Various uncollected and unpublished poems

Collected Poems

Selected Poems of James K. Baxter (Oxford Poets)

Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Cold Spring

Beyond the palisade

The Collected Poems of James K. Baxter

New Zealand in colour