Seagull Seagull is a new selection of poems from the classic The Tree House poems for children by New Zealand’s folk poet, James K Baxter. Baxter wrote these poems when he was teaching in Lower Hutt i
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’ Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time
Divided into four stages to reflect the development of James K. Baxter’s work from the 1940s to 1972, this innovative assortment combines the poet’s widely known poems with more unusual and previously
The previously unpublished poems in this collection record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter’s first serious love affair.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 retur
