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James Keir Baxter
29 June 1926–22 October 1972
(Person)

Works by this Author in Our Collection

• He Waiata o Hemi, quoted in ‘He Waiata o Hemi’: An Unpublished Poem — by James K. Baxter
• A View from the Port Hills, quoted in Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason
• A View from the Port Hills [II], quoted in Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason
• The Fleece, quoted in Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason

Subject of Texts

• After Bathing at Baxter’s
• ‘He Waiata o Hemi’: An Unpublished Poem by James K. Baxter

Mentioned in

• A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
  • Eleven: Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-531
• A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
  • 10 — Public Life, Books, Music and Art 1936–50
  • Index
  • 10 Public Life, Books, Music and Art, 1936–50
• Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • Private printing
  • Regional publishing: Otago
  • Book reviewing and literary criticism
• Design Review: Volume 3, Number 5 (March-April 1951)
  • The Need for Criticism
• Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
  • Chapter Fifteen — New Zealand Interlude
  • Chapter Nineteen — Return to New Zealand
  • Index
• Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number Two
  • ‘He Who Would Be a Poet’: James K. Baxter's Early Poetry Manuscript Books1
  • A Confessional Letter
  • The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number One
  • The Puritan Paradox: An Annotated Bibliography of Puritan and Anti-Puritan New Zealand Fiction, 1860-1940 — Part 1: The Puritan Legacy
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number Two
  • The Puritan paradox: an annotated bibliography of Puritan and anti-Puritan New Zealand fiction, 1860-1940. Part 2: reactions against Puritanism
• Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
  • Pop-Existentialism in New Zealand
  • Spark to a Waiting Fuse
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
  • J. R. Hervey, 1889–1958
  • Eileen Duggan, 1894–1972
  • Charles Brasch, 1909–1973
  • Charles Edgar Spear, 1910–1985
  • Denis Glover, 1912–1980
  • Contributors
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
  • George Grey, 1812–1898
  • Montague Harry Holcroft, 1902–1993
  • Frank Sargeson [Norris Frank Davey], 1903–1982
  • Contributors
• Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
  • 9. The Maori Writer in Maoriland
  • Index
• Recollecting Mansfield
  • One
  • Three
• Sport 11: Spring 1993
  • Sport 11 NOVEMBER 1993 — CONTENTS
  • [section]
• Sport 21: Spring 1998
  • Gregory O'Brien — The dark plane leaves at evening
  • Andrew Johnston — Mark Pirie's ‘Excellent’ Adventure
  • 10
  • 19
• Sport 22: Autumn 1999
  • Contributors
• Sport 23: Spring 1999
  • Gregory O'Brien — Somebody Say Something
• Sport 26: Autumn 2001
  • A Eulogy for Brian Rodney Bell, 1929-2000
• Sport 28: Autumn 2002
  • Contents
  • Gregory O'Brien — No Dream But Life — : James K. Baxter's Spark to a Waiting Fuse and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings—a notebook, 19 December 2001
  • [untitled]
  • Opening Night
  • A Piece of Middle Earth
  • In Production
• Victoria University of Wellington1899 ~ 1999 A History
  • [eleven] — The creative edge
  • [twelve] — Weirdie beardie layabouts
  • Index

Cited in

• Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • Bibliography
• Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number One
  • ‘He Waiata o Hemi’: An Unpublished Poem — by James K. Baxter
• Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number Two
  • ‘He Who Would Be a Poet’: James K. Baxter's Early Poetry Manuscript Books1
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number One
  • The Puritan Paradox: An Annotated Bibliography of Puritan and Anti-Puritan New Zealand Fiction, 1860-1940 — Part 1: The Puritan Legacy
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number Two
  • The Puritan paradox: an annotated bibliography of Puritan and anti-Puritan New Zealand fiction, 1860-1940. Part 2: reactions against Puritanism
• Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
  • Pop-Existentialism in New Zealand
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
  • J. R. Hervey, 1889–1958
  • Charles Edgar Spear, 1910–1985
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
  • Frank Sargeson [Norris Frank Davey], 1903–1982
• Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
  • Secondary Sources
• Sport 22: Autumn 1999
  • Contributors

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External Links

• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

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Other Collections

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• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
• Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
• National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
• nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

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