Resonance VII
I was fortunate
enough to gain permission from Allan Couts who owned the house at the time to photograph inside James K Baxter's room for Frank McKay's book
and was happy with the results. The image was added to this series at a later date. The outside of the house has always
been difficult to see, as though there were private things that
happened behind the hedge while the second level turret was like a sentry box and gave a full view
of the world, especially anyone who might be looking in. Key Baxter icons are framed by the windows left to right - Scroggs Hill, Saddle Hill, and Green Island.
 Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance VII was taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
Iron
Scythe Song CP
up the road's stony
edge
to my father's hawthorn hedge
Home Thoughts
CP
The
tree of time, the dusty wattle grove
And the blind devil on the stair
who guarded and still guards
the spidered room
that I wrote poems in.....
or grafted apple
twigs
on stumps of hawthorn
A
Family Photograph 1939 1961 CP
I in my fuggy room
at the top of the stairs
Mother and Son CP
Saddled
and ridden to
Iceland and back by the night as
He learnt early that
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