Fertile Minds in N.Z.
OME of you may have heard Professor Greig of Johannesburg talk over 1YA recently on South Africa, Well, when he was here last year, he told me that he was astonished by the fertility of poetry in New Zealand: there was nothing, he said, comparable in South Africa to the productions of, say, the Caxton Press: no poets in English who had the same range of technical accomplishment of Mason, Fairburn and Curnow. That is my own experience, In Afrikaans there was much activity. In English the production was negligible, and what there was of it could not be compared with the production in this country.-(" Colonialism in Literature," Professor W. A. Sewell, 1YA.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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118Fertile Minds in N.Z. New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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