James K. Baxter Complete Prose Volume 2
Contents
- Return to Dunedin — 1966-1968
- Poet Returns to Home Town p. 1
- Robert Burns Fellow ‘more than a poet’ p. 2
- The Solitary Man p. 3
- Recollections of School Days p. 4
- An Impression of Speed p. 8
- Baxter Sees Fellowship as a Compromise p. 9
- The Unknown Place p. 10
- Walking Poets p. 11
- Draft of ‘Shots around the Target’ (1) p. 13
- Draft of ‘Shots around the Target’ (2) p. 16
- The Responsibility of Students to the Community and Themselves p. 19
- Shots around the Target — an Arts Festival Talk p. 20
- Earlier New Zealand Poetry p. 43
- Draft Introduction to ‘The Innovators’ p. 45
- The Innovators p. 46
- The Broadeners p. 71
- No Patriotic Poetry p. 94
- Pope John among the French p. 95
- Poet in a Tower p. 96
- On Returning to Dunedin p. 97
- Social Satirist p. 100
- To Enlarge Reality p. 101
- James K. Baxter Joins the Teilhard Discussion p. 102
- O’Neill in Paperbacks p. 103
- Unquenchable Spirit p. 104
- The Human Condition [2] p. 105
- What is a Poem? p. 106
- A Plea for Charitable Action p. 108
- Murder and the Law p. 110
- The Prisoner Describes Himself
- Introduction to Mr Brandywine Chooses a Gravestone p. 112
- Under their Skin p. 113
- Peace in Vietnam p. 114
- A Poet’s Garden p. 115
- This Time the Flood p. 116
- The Puritan Devil p. 123
- A Poet’s True Prayer p. 127
- Introduction to John Macmillan Brown: the Memoirs
- The Man on the Horse — Dedicated to Janet Clutha
- Contents p. 129
- Foreword
- 1 — Conversation with an Ancestor p. 130
- 2 — Literature and Belief — A talk given to the seminarists at Holy Cross College p. 150
- 3 — The Virgin and the Temptress p. 171
- 4 — The Man on the Horse p. 192
- 5 — Notes on the Education of a New Zealand Poet
- Is Napalm the Only Answer in Vietnam? p. 243
- The New Jerusalem Bible p. 244
- American Poets p. 248
- New Directions p. 249
- [Replies to Questions about Poetic Composition] p. 250
- Draft of ‘The Unicorn: a consideration of adolescence’ p. 252
- [Notes on the Making of ‘The Martian’ 1] p. 255
- [Notes on the Making of ‘The Martian’ 2] p. 260
- It’s a Difficult World, David
- Homosexual Law Reform [1] p. 263
- Two Comedies p. 264
- The Church and the Alcoholic
- Trade Unions and Unemployment p. 278
- Mary at Ephesus p. 286
- The Right to Read and Write Examined p. 287
- A Russian Poet [1] p. 289
- The Spirit of Mary p. 290
- The Tree of Jesse p. 293
- A Russian Poet [2] p. 300
- Australian Moods p. 301
- Thoughts of an Old Alligator [1] p. 303
- Why Shouldn’t our Priests Marry? p. 315
- A True Rhodesian p. 319
- Ulysses p. 321
- Way of a Prophet
- ‘A book that I treasure and admire’ p. 323
- Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand p. 325
- Some Notes on Drama p. 353
- A Game of Magic p. 356
- Play By Baxter Is Welcomed p. 357
- Mixed Flatting p. 359
- A Human Voice p. 360
- Homosexual Law Reform [2] p. 361
- The Difficult Tribe p. 362
- Small Theatres Are Home of Live Drama p. 367
- Unmarried Parents [1] p. 368
- The Sacrament of Mercy p. 369
- The Maori View of Life and Death p. 374
- Baxter Employing Mime Technique p. 382
- A Man with a Mask p. 383
- When is a Book Pornographic? p. 384
- Vietnam [1] p. 389
- Unmarried Parents [2]
- Personal Issues p. 390
- Police Force p. 391
- Programme Note for The Sore-Footed Man
- Kiwi Habits [1]
- Kiwi Habits [2] p. 397
- Notes on Being a New Zealander p. 400
- What is Art? Baxter: The Human Being is Object and Subject p. 404
- The Lapsed Catholic p. 406
- Sharp Metal p. 409
- The Flowering Cross p. 410
- The Young Eliot p. 416
- Schoolteachers and Bureaucrats p. 417
- A Letter to Mr Holyoake p. 425
- Purgatory p. 429
- Poet to Stay in Dunedin p. 433
- Campus Laureate p. 434
- Hell p. 435
- Heaven p. 439
- There are Shadows – but Greater Lights – in the Christian’s Death p. 443
- Aspects of Poetry p. 445
- Programme Note for The Bureaucrat p. 446
- Faith
- The Pleasures of Middle Age p. 449
- A Certain Spirit p. 454
- [Notes on Religion and the Church]
- The Sorrows of Our Lady p. 456
- A Second Letter to Mr Holyoake p. 459
- The Body and Blood of Christ p. 463
- Less than Major p. 468
- The Holy Family p. 469
- Eastern Weeping p. 474
- Theatre Subsidies
- Some Possibilities for New Zealand Drama p. 476
- Breaking through the Fences p. 492
- Central Icon for Christians p. 494
- The Angels p. 498
- Among the Rocks p. 503
- Man’s Quest for Peace p. 504
- The Religious Life p. 509
- Where Marital Guide-books Go So Sadly Astray . . p. 515
- The New Morality [1] p. 520
- Introduction to Mr Brandywine Chooses a Gravestone p. 521
- The Cruel Catholic p. 522
- Notes Accompanying the Text of The Band Rotunda p. 526
- Dear Joseph – Look after them p. 527
- The Bones of our Saints p. 530
- Thoughts of an Old Alligator [2] p. 534
- Christian Humour p. 547
- The New Morality [2] p. 550
- What is Our Lady's Crown in Heaven? p. 551
- Our Political Apathy p. 553
- Do You Want to Drive them from the Church? p. 557
- Some Aspects of Ecumenism p. 558
- The Modern Home p. 562
- Some Points of Difficulty p. 568
- [A Letter to the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand] p. 569
- Let’s be Led by the Holy Spirit p. 571
- Should we Shear the Young Sheep? p. 573
- Peace, Power, Politics p. 577
- The Holy Father
- Should Diocesan Priests be Married? p. 581
- In my View [1] p. 583
- The Adolescent Christ p. 584
- Gentle and Discreet p. 588
- The Weight of Slavery p. 589
- Constructive Defence p. 591
- This Saint was Not Made by Eating Well and Being Kind p. 592
- Unhappiness in Marriage p. 594
- Are we a Nation of Skinflints? p. 596
- Vietnam [2] p. 599
- Ice-cream and Ecumenism
- In my View [2] p. 604
- I Believe the Church is in the Right p. 605
- The Sense of Giving p. 606
- World Scene p. 607
- Property and Poverty p. 608
- [The Burns Fellowship] p. 614
- Birth Control Clinics are the New Temples p. 617
- Sane or Mad p. 619
- It All Depends How you Feel; James Q. Oxter’s Dictionary of Gobbledygook p. 620
- The Fortunate Country p. 622
- Contraception and the Pope [1] p. 626
- Rebellion or Resignation p. 627
- Changing Over p. 632
- A Letter to a Layman p. 634
- A Costly Vision p. 638
- Don’t Water down the Wine of Catholic Doctrine p. 639
- In my View [3] p. 642
- Last Retreat of a Senile Poet p. 644
- Sea and Land p. 646
- The Safe World p. 647
- Digging Deep p. 655
- Contraception and the Pope [2] p. 656
- Contraception and the Pope [3] p. 657
- Our Lady and the Sacrament of Penance p. 658
- Another Baxter Globe Premiere p. 660
- In my View [4]
- Western Commentary p. 662
- Conscience and the Pill p. 663
- St Joseph’s Trials – and Joys p. 668
- In my View [5] p. 672
- Pope John p. 673
- [Review of Fleur Adcock’s Tigers] p. 675
- Some Problems of Ecumenism p. 678
- The Fisherman’s Licence p. 681
- A Minister of Culture p. 685
- The Prodigal Son p. 687
- [About the Globe Theatre] p. 689