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Biography: Tuwhare, Hone

Fellow artists: James K. Baxter’s tangi

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Fellow artists: James K. Baxter’s tangi

In October 1972 Hone Tuwhare’s friend, the poet James K. Baxter, died. Along with hundreds of mourners, Tuwhare travelled to the tangihanga (funeral) at Jerusalem, on the Whanganui River, and paid his respects at the grave. That journey is recalled in his poem, ‘Heemi: for James K. Baxter’, published in the New Zealand Listenersoon after.

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Janet Hunt. 'Tuwhare, Hone', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29795/fellow-artists-james-k-baxters-tangi (accessed 14 June 2026).