About the Author

John Weir was born in Nelson in 1935. He was ordained a priest in 1961 – the year in which he and Baxter became close friends and began an extensive correspondence which lasted until Baxter’s death. He has published poetry, bibliographies and critical monographs, and edited major collections of Baxter’s writings, including the first Collected Poems (1979), and the multiple-volume editions: Complete Prose (2015), Letters of a Poet (2019) and Complete Poems (2022).