![]() those Gaelic-speaking men and women, descending with their bullock drays and baggage to cross the mouth of what is now the Brighton river near to sunset, when the black and red of the sky intimated a new thing, a radical loss and a radical beginning and the earth lay before them, for that one moment of history, as a primitive and sacred Bride, unentered and unexploited.’ (No. ![]() ![]() In a memorable flashback he paid tribute to his first ancestors in New Zealand: ‘. He was, in fact, a man of contradictions, a man who was rarely at ease with himself and often at odds with conventional society. At times some of his roles and behaviours conflicted with others. He was a profoundly religious man, an astute analyst of his own nature and human nature generally, an insightful commentator on society, a staunch defender of human rights and a compassionate friend of people who lived on the fringe of middle-class society, usually for reasons they did not choose. James Keir Baxter (1926-72) was a great poet and a highly accomplished prose writer. ![]()
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