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- W991780957 abstract "As the editor of this volume justly remarks, the poet James K. Baxter captured the imagination of his compatriots as no other New Zealand writer has done. When he died in 1972, Wellington’s daily newspaper, The Dominion, announced the fact to its readers with a large billboard that simply declared him as ‘friend.’ Not all of those readers would have agreed, not in 1972, and certainly not in earlier years, when Baxter’s own agenda had more to do with being a strident critic of society – the self-appointed and selfproclaimed ‘sore thumb of the tribe’ – rather than a benevolent friend to all. Moreover, since his death, Baxter has remained a controversial figure, whose stature and influence as a poet continue to be the source of considerable debate and ongoing publication. Spark to a Waiting Fuse makes an important contribution to that debate, adding immeasurably to our knowledge of Baxter’s formative thinking and growth as a poet. Indeed, the volume might well have been subtitled ‘The Growth of a Poet’s Mind.’ It is a striking feature of Baxter’s verse how many poems are constructed as letters – to Colin Durning, to John Weir, to Frank McKay, to Peter Olds, to Maurice Shadbolt, even to Piers Plowman, to Australia, and to the world; and to Noel Ginn. It might have been thought that the two verse letters to Ginn belonged with the others as evidence of Baxter’s fondness for a particular verse style, but, as Paul Millar remarks, these two poems represent a substantial private correspondence. Drawing on previously unpublished archival material in the Hocken Library, and the papers of the late Frank McKay, Baxter’s biographer (deposited in the Victoria University Library), Millar presents here a sequence of letters written by Baxter to his slightly older friend, Noel Ginn. The letters are accompanied by Ginn’s letters to Baxter, and by over 200 poems that Baxter wrote at the same time, many of which have not previously been published, poems that Baxter often sent to Ginn and discussed with him. Millar’s lengthy introduction provides a wealth of background material – about Baxter, his brother Terence, their family, and of course about Noel Ginn. There is much here that richly complements McKay’s biography, and allows us a much fuller understanding of Baxter’s adolescence. At the same" @default.
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