The 2012 Geering Seminar on James K Baxter - 13 October

St Andrew's Study Trust - The 2012 Geering Seminar on James K Baxter - 13 October at St Andrew's on The Terrace

Greetings from the St Andrew's Study Trust

This year instead of a visiting lecturer giving the Geering Lectures, we have changed the format and we are now holding a Geering seminar entitled Baxter's Ghost. Forty years after James K. Baxter died does he still haunt our sleep? Is he still present in the cultural consciousness as a poet and a prophet?

The seminar is in two parts:
The morning session (free) is Remembering Baxter with his son John and close associates who will talk about his life. Also John Weir will launch a new Baxter volume Poems to a Glass Woman published by Victoria University Press.

The afternoon session (cost $30) and start with lunch at 12:30 followed by a scintillating line up of academic speakers who have studied and published works on Baxter.

A day not to be missed!

Biographical Information on the speakers:
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PAUL MILLAR. Associate Professor of English at Canterbury University. Author/ Editor of 7 books re James K Baxter

JOHN WEIR . Editor of Baxter’s Collected Poems, and soon to be published Complete Prose.

COLIN DURNING. Close friend of Baxter. Jerusalem Sonnets are all dedicated to him.

SUE COSGROVE. Compassion Sister, and friend of Baxter at Jerusalem.

JOHN BAXTER. Artist and son of James and Jacquie Baxter.

GEOFF MILES. English lecturer at Victoria University and co-author of The Snake-Haired Muse; James K. Baxter and Classical Myth.

SHARON MATTHEWS: Researcher on James K Baxter whose 2012 Thesis is entitled: Recasting the Feminine: Archetypes and Archetypal Figures of the Female in Two Plays by James K. Baxter

Attached are a flier for display and a registration form.
Baxter_flyer_v7.pdf
Baxter_registration_v2.pdf

ENDS

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