LEADER 03079nam 2200541 450 001 9910823419803321 005 20230721045309.0 010 $a1-77558-574-3 010 $a1-86940-663-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492027 035 $a(EBL)1557376 035 $a(OCoLC)863823792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001061203 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11616675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061203 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11098240 035 $a(PQKB)11510385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1557376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1557376 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10817573 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492027 100 $a20090715d2009 uy| p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJames K. Baxter $epoems /$fselected & introduced by Sam Hunt 210 1$aAuckland, N.Z. :$cAuckland University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (112 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 300 $aSam Hunt introduces his fifty favourite poems by James K. Baxter. 311 $a1-86940-434-3 327 $aCover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; High Country Weather; Never No More; Lament for Barney Flanagan; By the dry Cardrona; Sings Clarry; Turn, turn the capstan; A Rope for Harry Fat; Evidence at the Witch Trials; At Akitio; For Kevin Ireland; Elephanta; The Sixties; Ballad of Calvary Street; The Old Owl; On the Death of her Body; At Taieri Mouth; Hokitika Bill; Brown Bone; A Takapuna Business Man Considers his Son's Death in Korea; On Reading Yevtushenko; East Coast Journey; Waipatiki Beach; Pig Island Letters (2); Tomcat; To Any Young Man who Hears my Verses Read in a Lecture Room 327 $aBallad of One Tree Hill The Beach House; Henley Pub; from The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; 1 The Ballad of Grady's Dream; 4 Grady Under Shock Treatment; 7 Grady's Epitaph; The Gunner's Lament; Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife; Divorcee; from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost; 1 The Party; 3 The Budgie; 6 The Change-Over; 9 The Rival; 13 The Flower; Inscription; To my Father in Spring; The Communist Speaks; Fitz Drives Home the Spigot; Failure; Letter to Sam Hunt; Kumara Poem; Jerusalem Blues 2; The Return; Ferry from Lyttelton; He Waiata mo Te Kare; Index of first lines; 330 $aIncluding 50 poems by revered New Zealand poet and social activist James K. Baxter, this unique and accessibly sized collection offers an insider's view of the man and his work from his longtime friend and fellow poet Sam Hunt. With a range of familiar and lesser-known poems dating from 1945 to 1972, and a substantial essay by Hunt, this compilation offers a fresh and very personal look at the work of an extraordinarily influential poet. 606 $aPoetry 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $aNZ821.2 700 $aBaxter$b James K$0142295 701 $aHunt$b Sam$01646361 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823419803321 996 $aJames K. Baxter$93993327 997 $aUNINA