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    James K. Baxter

    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…

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    James K. Baxter: Complete Prose

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    James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions. Its contents are remarkable for…

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    James K Baxter: Letters of a Poet

    Frank, funny, generous, sometimes filthy, packed with poems and musings on love, the Catholic faith, and how to live well and write well, they provide remarkable new insights into his…

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    James K Baxter: Complete Poems

    John Weir

    James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was seven. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisade, was published when he was…

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    The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Myth: James K. Baxter and Classical Myth

    Geoff Miles,John Davidson,Paul Millar

    Contending that James K. Baxter’s use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subject’s entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation…

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    The Guru of Jerusalem: In the shadow of James K Baxter

    James K Baxter was arguably New Zealand’s foremost poet, writer and playwright of the 20th century.; a searcher of perception, an extreme pacifist of personal distinction, religiosity and death. Full…

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    Quarrels with Himself: Essays on James K. Baxter as Prose Writer

    Quarrels with Himself provides a dozen essays that uncover how much more complicated Baxter is than his popular stereotype, and how his prose writing (like his poetry) wrestles with contradictions…

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    Poems to a Glass Woman

    James K Baxter

    The previously unpublished poems in this collection record the immediate impact of James Baxter’s first serious love affair. It was a relationship that affected him profoundly and to which he…

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    Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxters Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946

    Paul Millar

    In these 56 letters to his slightly older friend, then imprisoned as a conscientious objector, the teenage James K. Baxter pours out his ideas and feelings on life, philosophy and…

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    James K Baxter

    A new gift edition of James K Baxter’s classic poems for children, reillustrated for a new generation

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    Selected Poems

    James K. Baxter

    James K Baxter (1926-1972) is one of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable poets, yet he has been too little regarded of outside his native New Zealand. This title gathers some of…

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    Collected Poems

    James K. Baxter

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

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