Poet is ‘first N.Z. link’ in East Cultural Exchanges
Mr James K. Baxter, the poet, who has been given a UNESCO grant to work in India for six months, believes New Zealand needs contact ‘other than technological and political’ in Asia.
‘I hope to be a small part of that,’ he said yesterday. He described himself as the first New Zealand link in what he hopes will be a chain of cultural exchanges between East and West.
Main purpose of the visits, of which his is the first, is to let textbook writers and illustrators in Asia and New Zealand exchange information.
Mr Baxter, who works for the school publications section of the Education Department, will make his first stop on the way to India at Tokyo, where there will be a conference on the representation of the West in Asian textbooks. Mr Baxter will be a New Zealand observer.
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