339 of 417 lots
Lot Is Closed BAXTER, JAMES K. - The Gunner’s Lament [for my wife, Te Kare]
BAXTER, JAMES K. - The Gunner’s Lament [for my wife, Te Kare] - 1BAXTER, JAMES K. - The Gunner’s Lament [for my wife, Te Kare] - 2
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BAXTER, JAMES K. - The Gunner’s Lament [for my wife, Te Kare]
Starting Bid: $80
Estimate:
$100 - $200
Ended
Timed Auction
174: Rare Books
Description
BAXTER, JAMES K.
The Gunner’s Lament [for my wife, Te Kare]

[1965]. [2]p, broadsheet, stencilled typescript. An anti-Vietnam War poem. Keith Holyoak was reputed as ‘very hurt’ by this poem. See Hunt, ‘James K. Baxter poems’ [Auckland University Press 2009].
A second anti-Vietnam War poem ‘A Bucket of blood for a dollar
[a conversation between Uncle Sam and Rt Hon. K. Holyoake]’
printed on reverse side. Scarce