Adam called out an error I made in writing: the English would hate another invasion. I was thinking of the empire, who sold a people…
Posted: 10 June 2020
Categories: Poetry
Tag: James K Baxter
Posted: 8 April 2020
Categories: New Zealand, Poetry
Not a Kipple today. Kipling is good, very good, but my thoughts are much more local, and the unofficial poet laureate of Dunedin, who died…
Posted: 19 November 2019
Categories: New Zealand, Poetry
What can I say about Baxter? He was troubled, broken, burned too bright: died too young. In my view, he is the best New Zealand…