To the Editor
Sir-Why does New Zealand cast out many of its best artists, and forget them-or if it doesn’t cast them out, they go, anyway. I’m thinking in particular of Douglas Stewart, now in Australia, and located at Sydney in the Bulletin office. Stewart threatens to be one of the greatest poets produced in the south-soon he will be known as the great Australian poet. How many New Zealanders are acquainted with his work? I would recommend that everyone read his two latest books of verses, Elegy to An Airman and Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier. These two volumes-and particularly the sonnets — contain some of the finest verse written during this war anywhere. I would suggest that some of the sonnets might be published in The Listener — this would require little space. Your paper is acquiring a literary reputation, and we hope that it will develop this side, until it fills the want that evicte here for a vood Iliterarv
weekly.
J. C.
WALSH
(Nelson)
(We would, of course, not print the sonnets without the author’s permission, even if they were available to us. But we print above a note on the only volume of Stewart’s verse to which we at present have access).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 16
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205To the Editor New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 16
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