
James K Baxter
Letters of a Poet
John Weir(Editor)
Victoria University Press
Will be published approx. on 17. January 2019
Book
Hardback
1648 pages
978-1-77656-203-9 (ISBN)
Description
"James K. Baxter was not a man of few words, and his private correspondence was no exception. Letters of a Poet, edited by his good friend and frequent correspondent John Weir, contains almost 900 of Baxter's letters from 1939 to 1972, covering his teenage years and entire adult life. 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 life and work. The two volumes include letters to his parents, Archibald and Millicent Baxter, the conscientious objector Noel Ginn, and many of the leading literary figures of the time, including Charles Brasch, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Fleur Adcock, Lawrence Baigent, Barry Crump, Maurice Shadbolt, W.H. Oliver, Robin Dudding and many more"--Publisher information.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 99 mm
Weight
2767 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77656-203-9 (9781776562039)
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Person
John Weir was born in Nelson in 1935. After a period of training at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Greenmeadows, he was ordained a Catholic priest. He has published poetry, bibliographies and critical monographs and edited a number of collections of James K. Baxter's poetry, including his Collected Poems and Complete Prose.