Triptych

by Rob Jackaman
... reveals three aspects of contemporary poetry, distinct yet interrelated—the satirical, the confessional, and the lyrical. The geography of the volume, at first glance rather zany—starting in Riccarton, moving to Iceland, and ending in Marlborough—provides an informal and intermittent narrative thread that ultimately helps to bind together the poet's world. Each aspect of the text is supported by a different art-work—an etching by Barry Cleavin, a painting by Don Peebles, and a lithograph by Ralph Hotere.
Hazard Press     $19.95
PO Box 8427, Christchurch
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A MAJOR NEW BIOGRAPHY

the life of JAMES K.BAXTER
Frank McKay
Few individuals have so captured the imagination of the New Zealand public as James K. Baxter.
      Frank McKay, in The Life of James K. Baxter, presents the many faces of this deeply self-aware man.
      Baxter, the gloomy adolescent, the roaring boy, the family man, 'head between thumbs at mass" and the ascetic founder of a community at a remote settlement called Jerusalem. Baxter, the writer of reviews, essays, critiques, lectures, plays, stories, and thousands of poems.
      The Life of James K. Baxter has been more than fifteen years in the writing. It is the definitive life of one of the most significant New Zealanders of the twentieth century, and one of the, century's finest poets.

AVAILABLE MARCH 1990, HARDBACK $59.95 (approx).
NEW ZEALAND OXFORD