... NONE (as far as I can see) of Baxter's "Jerusalem Sonnets" seem to be
available on the Web (though there are lots of references to them).
The first of the sequence is printed (in a book that some people might have
to hand) in _The Norton Anthology of Poetry_ (4thEd).
[Though not, infuriatingly {although not a sonnet} -- my favourite Baxter
poem, "Lament for Barney Flanagan".
... but this -- WHEEEE!!! -- +is+ on the Web:
Barney Flanagan, ripe for a coffin,
Eighteen stone and brandy-rotten ...
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~penz/aotearoa/flanagan.htm ]
As it might be violating copyright, I'd better check with the list owners
before scanning and posting one or more of the Jerusalem Sonnets. [Yes/No,
Randolph?]
On the other hand, it might encourage people to +buy+ James K. Baxter,
_Collected Poems_, ed. J.E.Weir (1980: Paperback, 1988) -- pp 459ff has the
39 unrhymed Jerusalem Sonnets.
As Baxter is one of the truly towering poets of our time ...
Robin
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