https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/issue/feed 2020-03-19T02:23:19+00:00 Peter Whiteford peter.whiteford@vuw.ac.nz Open Journal Systems <p>Originally modelled on the English journal <em>Notes and Queries, <em>Kōtare</em>: New Zealand Notes and Queries </em>is devoted to New Zealand literature, literary history, and literary criticism. It particularly welcomes submissions that have some basis in archival research and scholarship and criticism arising from newly discovered sources, but other submissions are also welcome.</p> https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/3967 2020-01-27T21:01:21+00:00 Dougal McNeill dougal.mcneill@vuw.ac.nz Alistair Murray alistair.murray@me.com

<p> Documenting the publication of poetry in <em>The Maoriland Worker</em>, this essay considers the place of poetry and poetics in the <em>Worker</em>’s history and its political project. What was the place of literature in the early years of the New Zealand labour movement? What sorts of texts circulated, and how were they received and interpreted by socialist journalists and critics? Combining quantitative analysis with close reading, this essay offers the <em>Worker</em> as a case study in early New Zealand labour movement literary culture.</p><p>Correspondence about this article may be directed to Dougal McNeill at Dougal.McNeill@vuw.ac.nz</p>

2016-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Dougal McNeill, Alistair Murray https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/3982 2020-03-19T02:23:19+00:00 Peter Whiteford peter.whiteford@vuw.ac.nz

Baxter's early poem 'Letter to Piers Plowman' includes references to characters known to us not from Langland's poem but from one of the letters of John Ball (Royal manuscript). This note identifies a likely source in which Baxter could have encountered this little-known political text.

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