Sir.-Has not the furore over James Baxter’s poem "To a Jet Pilot" gone on for quite long enough? Even if D. R.
Watson and others of his ilk do not understand the implications raiged by Mr. Baxter, they can surely say so without indulging in criticism and at least accept the poem for what I feel Mr. Baxter intended it to be, viz., an attempt to describe one man’s place in this modern scheme of things. I am no poet---for that reason alone I would not attempt to criticise the poem-but even to me "To a Jet Pilot" gives an opportunity to assé$s my position, to consider how I will be. affected -by_ the inventions of this "age. The jet aeroplane is but one of those inventions. Is Mr. Watson’ so bound up in the "rather snobbish . conservatism" attributed to him by D. A. Sti, John thet he carinot do likewise?
PER ARDUA AD JET PILOT
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 5
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