https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare <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> Victoria University of Wellington en-US Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries 1174-6955 <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:<br /><br /></p> <ol type="a"> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li> </ol> https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/3967 <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> Dougal McNeill Alistair Murray Copyright (c) 2016 Dougal McNeill, Alistair Murray 2016-09-01 2016-09-01 10.26686/knznq.v0i0.3967 https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/3982 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. Peter Whiteford Copyright (c) 2016 Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries 2016-12-15 2016-12-15 10.26686/knznq.v0i0.3982