(Paperback)

Presented as a hand-sized, affordable paperback, Selected Poems of James K Baxter contains the full texts of the major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', a representative range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, and key unpublished poems seen here in book form for the first time.

(Paperback)

In these 56 letters to his slightly older friend, then imprisoned as a conscientious objector, the teenage James K. Baxter pours out his ideas and feelings on life, philosophy and his own work. With the inclusion of the complete texts of the 255 poems written at the time and discussed in the letters, this is an insight into this NZ poet.