James K Baxter Comments
How can James K. Baxter be the most popular poet when he has only one poem on the website? It does not make sense at all, when some members have written thousands of poems. Why can't they replace Baxter at the top of the list? Or why not someone from your top 500 poets, like Ezra Pound, T, S. Eliot or Rita Dove? They have more poems posted than Baxter. I do not deny that Baxter is a leading New Zealand poet.
It is sad that this site has almost nothing by James K Baxter. I lived in Aotearoa/New Zealand and he was very famous back then. I left and returned to Australia in 1978 and I'm saddened that his memory seems not to have been honoured. I hope I am wrong and this site is an anomaly.
Agree: one of the most accomplished and prolific NZ poets of the 20th century. 'Poem in the Matukituki Valley' should at least be here... along with 30 others to give some idea of the depth and scope of his work.
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As an afterthought. Are people from new Zealand networking and voting regardless for Baxter for some unknown reason? This happens frequently on websites, a system which does not favour poets who have few friends or connections to vote for them.