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Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957
Hardback Edition: 1
This volume of Charles Braschs journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to
be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia.
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His frank and often detailed descriptions of these people including Frank Sargeson, A.R.D. Fairburn, Keith Sinclair, Eric McCormick, James Bertram, J.C. Beaglehole, MariaDronke, Fred and Evelyn Page, Alistair Campbell, Bill Oliver, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Leo Bensemann, Lawrence Baigent, Ngaio Marsh, Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Ruth Dallas and many others are among the highlights of the book.
Unmarried and longing for intimacy, Brasch also writes with great candour about hisrelationships with Rose Archdall, Rodney Kennedy and Harry Scott, revealing a side ofhimself that has not been known about before.
Central to Brasch's life was the vocation of poetry. He writes movingly about his own work, and also about his love of nature and the outdoors, including lively descriptions of walking the Milford and Routeburn tracks. The book ends with his visit to Europe in 1957, which confirmed his sense that New Zealand had become for him a centre & a world.
A lengthy introduction by Peter Simpson and other editorial apparatus guide the readerthrough this engrossing material.
Peter Simpson is a writer, editor and curator who has taught at universities in New Zealand and Canada. He was director of the Holloway Press and a head of English at the University of Auckland, retiring in 2013. Peter has written and edited many books and essays on New Zealand art, literature and cultural history.
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Pages : 686
Publisher : Otago University Press
Publication date : 2017-06-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, New Zealand, NZ Biography & True Stories