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James K. Baxter

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James K. Baxter

In the late 1960s the poet James K. Baxter started a commune at Jerusalem, a settlement with a strong Māori and Catholic history on the Whanganui River. Poems written at the time reveal the importance of this landscape in his spiritual search.

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David Young, Rivers – Rivers and culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14714/james-k-baxter (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Young, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.