Early Otago Verse
When days are short and nichts are lang, | I sit me down to write a sang | In hamely Scottish jingle; It helps to break a weary thought, | It reconciles me to my lot, And to my homely ingle. . HAT is what John Barr wrote in some verses explaining his motives and methods of writing. Barr, who came out to New Zealand in 1852 and printed | his first book in 1861, is one of the Scottish Colonial poets whose work will be heard, and discussed by Joan Stevens, in two programmes to be broadcast from -4YC, the first at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, July 4. A love for native Scots verse, says Miss Stevens, was one of the treasures that crossed the Pacific in the Wycliffe and the Philip Laing more than 100 years ago. Burns was in either the pockets or the memories of many pioneers, and "so the tradition of poetry in Scots was transplanted as happily to Otago as any gorse or thistle."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 11
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168Early Otago Verse New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 11
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