Kāpiti College Library

Notes

This selection introduces to English readers the work of a New Zealand poet whose first book, published in his own country, has been through three editions. His subjects range from an ambitious historical poem on the career of the brilliant but blood-thirsty Maori general Te Rauparaha, to scenes from family history distinguished by a moving simplicity and strength. The landscape of Mr. Campbell’s poems is as unmistakably New Zealand as the voice is unmistakably his own.