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James K. Baxter : the selected poems / edited by John Weir.

PR9639.3.B3 S45 2023

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Baxter, James K., author.
Contributor:: Weir, J. E. (John Edward), 1935- editor.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: New Zealand poetry--20th century.; New Zealand poetry.; poetry.; Poetry.; New Zealand.
Genre:: New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.; poetry.; Poetry.
Physical Description:: xxii, 332 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:: Wellington : Te Herenga Waka University Press, Cold Hub Press 2023.
Contents:: Machine-generated: The Early Years: Dunedin and Christchurch 1945-1949: High Country Weather; Lie deep, my love; Blow, wind of fruitfulness; Returned Soldier; The Bay; Sea Noon; Naseby; Elegy for my Father's Father; Let Time be still; Tunnel Beach; Haast Pass; Letter to Noel Ginn II; To my Father; Thrushes; Elegy for an Unknown Soldier; The Cave; Farmhand; Virginia Lake; Rocket Show; Wild Bees; Venetian Blinds; The Morgue; The Wellington Years and a Visit to India 1950-1965: Poem in the Matukituki Valley; Thoughts of a Dying Calvinist; The Fallen House; Boscastle; In the Lecture Room; Tarras Moon; Book of the Dead; The Bad Young Man; Portrait of a Poet; The Homecoming; Never No More; The Book of Hours; The Journey; Seraphion; Jack the Swagger's Song; Elegy at the Year's End; Lament for Barney Flanagan; Letter to Australia; The Woman on the Stair; Heard in a Sod Chimney; The Fisherman; Crossing Cook Strait; A Rope for Harry Fat; In fires of no return; By the Dry Cardrona; At Hokianga; Pyrrha; Green Figs at Table; At Akitio; Howrah Bridge; School Days; Eioko; At the Tomb of Theseus; Be Happy in Bed; Mandrakes for Supper; Elephanta; Sisyphus; A Prospect of Old Age; Footnote to Antony and Cleopatra; Ballad of Calvary Street; Evidence at the Witch Trials; Christchurch 1948; Obsequy for Dylan Thomas; Winter; To Jacquie; Makara Beach; On the Death of her Body; Election 1960; The Sixties; Ballad of John Silent; Brown Bone; Brighton; At Taieri Mouth; Ballade of the Happy Bureaucrat; Bushed; Christmas 1943; A Family Photograph 1939; Concrete Grady at the Saturday Novena; The Tree; The Boys; At Serrieres; The Hollow Place; The Cold Hub; The Last Judgement Martyrdom; The Buried Stream; On Reading Yevtushenko Waipatiki Beach; An Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the of Her Majesty's Visit to Pig Island; Shingle Beach Poem; Occasion; The Farm; Then; East Coast Journey; The Watch; New Zealand; Pig Island Letters; Letter to Robert Burns; Seven Year Old Poet; Tomcat; At Days Bay; The Ballad of Grady's Dream; High Wind at Hokio; Postman; Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife; Great-Uncles and Great-Aunts; To a Print of Queen Victoria; A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar; The Gunner's Lament; The Strike; The Lion Skin; Return to Dunedin 1966-1968: On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966; The Kraken; Dunedin Habits; The Monument; At Wanaka; The Maori Jesus; A View from Duffy's Farm; The Muse; The River [Nothing as broad as]; Daughter; To my Father in Spring; from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost: The Party; The Wound; The Rock; The Flower; At Queenstown; At the Franz Josef Glacier; At the Fox Glacier Hotel; Mother and Son; At Kuri Bush; At Brighton Bay; The Bridge; The Titan; To speak truly; Home Pleasures; Man, You Will Be Dust; Fitz Drives Home the Spigot; Afternoon Walk; At Rakiura; Winter River; Grandfather; The River [My brother started the boat engine]; The Wheel; At Naseby; Winter Sea; Reflections at Lowburn Ferry; The Jar; Winter Poem to my Wife; Discovery; A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting; To Mate With; Tangi; The Flame; The Instruments; The Child; Cleaning up After the Party; The Fear of Change; The Sailor; The Seed-Givers; Rhadamanthus; Summer 1967; The Millstones; The Bluegums; The Caryatids; The Victim; The Doctrine; Instruction; Here; Dunedin Morning; Letter from the Mountains; The Garland; Bacchante; The Gale; The Searchers; The Black Star; The Seals; The Bargain; Poem against Comfort; The Serpent; Words for a Poet; Epilogue for Ian; Seances; The Hero; The Bohemians; Mining Town; The Eccentrics; Letter to Sam Hunt; To Patric Carey; Valediction; The Jerusalem Years 1969-1972: Ballad of the Stonegut Sugar Works; Ballad of the Junkies and the Fuzz; The Labyrinth; The Rocks; from Jerusalem Sonnets; The Black Book Song; Song for Sakyamuni; Winter Monologue; The Ikons; In Praise of the Taniwha; Conversation in a Garden; News from a Pacified Area; Getting Stoned on the Night Air; Morning in Jerusalem; Ballad of the Third Boobhead; Ballad of Pigeon Park; He Waiata mo Te Kare; from Autumn Testament; Ferry from Lyttelton; Torso I; Torso II; Letter to Peter Olds; from Five Sestinas; The Dark Welcome; Sestina of the River Road; In Times of Trouble among Nations; The Return [When I go among the trees]; The Tiredness of Me and Heraldes; [Moss on plum branches]; [A pair of sandals]; Ode to Auckland.
Notes:: Poems.
ISBN:: 9781776920754; 1776920759
OCLC:: 1415242259
Publisher Number:: 99996825508

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