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Haurongo: Baxter, James Keir

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James K. Baxter on NZETC

Read books and articles by and about James K. Baxter, along with 'Wellington group' literary magazines, on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre's website.

Landfall

Read poems and articles by and about James K. Baxter in the online Landfall archive.

James K. Baxter on NZonScreen

Watch the 1997 Baxter documentary The road to Jerusalem (1997), Broken journey – the life and art of J.C. Sturm (2007) and other Baxter-related content on NZonScreen.

Rārangi pukapuka

Baxter, J.K. Collected plays. Ed. H. McNaughton. Auckland, 1982

Baxter, J.K. Collected poems. Ed. J. Weir. Auckland, 1995

Baxter, J.K. Complete poems. Ed. J. Weir. Wellington, 2022

Baxter, J.K. Complete prose. Ed. J. Weir. Wellington, 2015

Baxter, J.K. Letters of a poet. Ed. J. Weir. Wellington, 2019

McKay, F. The life of James K. Baxter. Auckland, 1990

Miles, G., J. Davidson and P. Millar, The snake-haired muse: James K. Baxter and classical myth. Wellington, 2011

Millar, P. ‘“Nobody would have given tuppence for our chances": James K. Baxter & J.C. Sturm’. In Between the lives: partners in art. Ed. D. Shepard. Auckland, 2005, pp.137–165

Millar, P. ed. Spark to a waiting fuse: James K. Baxter's correspondence with Noel Ginn. Wellington, 2001

Newton, J. The double rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem commune. Wellington, 2009

Oliver, W. H. James K. Baxter: a portrait. Wellington, 1983

O’Sullivan, V. James K. Baxter. Wellington, 1976

Simpson, P. Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch, 1933–1953. Auckland, 2016

Whiteford, P. and G. Miles eds. Quarrels with himself: essays on James K. Baxter as prose writer. Wellington, 2017

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Millar. 'Baxter, James Keir', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000, whakahou February 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126068/sources (accessed 11 June 2026).