Working in class discussion and the board, we identified the following key events and influences (more notes taken in class)
1. Millicent Macmillan Brown, university educated and wealthy, marries Archibald Baxter, conscientious objector and farmer of Brighton, Otago. Neither family happy. Archibald Baxter wrote We Will Not Cease about his time in WW1. Archibald recited poetry to his son from a young age.
2. Aged 7, hiding in the rocks to write poetry.
3. Off to England with his family for several years. Went to boarding school.
4. Aged c.13, comes back to NZ. Unsure of his identity - caught between two cultures. Goes to Kings High School in Dunedin.
5. Goes to university at Otago. Not particularly successful, though he enjoys the drinking culture and writes many poems.
6. 1948 Married Jacqui Sturm. The couple split up at least twice, but he had an enduring affection for her, shown in his poems. They had two children: Hillary and John. Jacqui was Maori and also at Otagoe university.
7. 1948 converted to Anglicanism
8. 1954 joins Alcoholics Anonymous
9. 1954 converts to Catholicism
10. 1958 went to India - profoundly affected by the poverty.
11. Living in Grafton, Auckland, with drug addicts.
12. 1969 goes to Jerusalem,
13. 1972 dies.
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