Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
James K. Baxter

Born: June 29, 1926
Died: October 22, 1972 (aged 46)
Bio: James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.
Known for:
- Collected poems of James K. Baxter
- Poems to a Glass Woman
- Spark to a waiting fuse
- New selected poems
- Jerusalem daybook (1971)