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James K. Baxter (1926- 72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ' the most human of poets' a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ' lively sinner' who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ' from his various quarrels with God, self, society and death emerged a body of work which reveals him to be not merely the most accessible and complete poet to have lived i...

James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisade, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volume set, runs to just over 3000 poems, more than half of which have never before been published. John Weir, a fellow poet, friend and confidant o...

The previously unpublished poems in this collection record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter's first serious love affair. It was a relationship that affected him profoundly and to which he returned time and time again in his later work. Poems to a Glass Woman is published for the 40th anniversary of Baxter's death. It includes a biographical essay by the editor, John Weir--a close friend and confidant of Baxter, who has been the editor o...

James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic. His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions.