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Poetry Notes . Poetry Notes Winter 2013 Volume 4, Issue 2 ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA Elliott does not appear in any New Inside this Issue Welcome Zealand anthology that I’m aware of, but he is listed like a number of other Hello and welcome to issue 14 of New Zealand poets of this period in Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, New Zealand Literature Authors’ Week 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of 1936: Annals of New Zealand Mark Pirie on James H New Zealand Aotearoa. Literature: being a List of New Zealand Elliott (1879-1955) Poetry Notes will be published quarterly Authors and their works with and will include information about introductory essays and verses, page 55: Classic New Zealand goings on at the Archive, articles on “Elliott, James Hawthorn [sic] Random poetry by John J Gallagher historical New Zealand poets of interest, Rhymes (v) 1924.” 4 occasional poems by invited poets and a The National Library of New Zealand’s Comment on W S Marris record of recently received donations to catalogue credits him with six books by Niel Wright 5 the Archive. from 1924-1950. The name James H Articles and poems are copyright in the Elliott does not appear in New Zealand Obituary: Sarah Broom names of the individual authors. Biographies at the National Library, but 6 The newsletter will be available for free there is a brief Obituary in the New A tribute to Helen download from the Poetry Archive’s Zealand Herald, 13 July 1955. Longford website: A Tapuhi search shows correspondence 8 from Elliott for J C Andersen’s Author’s http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com Comment on Angus Week 1936 bibliography. McMaster A Papers Past search brings up further 9 pieces about Elliott, namely book Comment on Mark Pirie on reviews in The Evening Post and the The Tuapeka Times Auckland Star, racing club news, James H Elliott shipping passenger lists and land Further comment on purchases. There is a further review of George Clarke his final book, Odes & Episodes in the 10 Wellington writer and publisher, Auckland Star, 2 December 1950, Mark Pirie discusses the Waikato poet Donate to PANZA through included as a newspaper cutting in the James H Elliott, who wrote between the Alexander Turnbull Library’s copy of PayPal early and middle-part of the 20th Elliott’s Odes & Episodes. century. Recently received Elliott’s Books donations The poet James H (Hawthorne) Elliott is an interesting New Zealand poet in His six books all in expensive hard-back About the Poetry Archive the bardic tradition, that dates back to editions printed for the author that the likes of John Barr of Craigilee in collected over 500 poems (including PANZA Dunedin and Tom Bracken, and takes in some long examples of narrative verse) PO Box 6637 writers like Ernest L Eyre up to more are: Marion Square recent figures like Sam Hunt, Andrew 1. Random Rhymes, 205 pages, 20cm, Wellington 6141 Fagan, Michael O’Leary or Simon 66 poems. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe Williamson. & Tombs, 1924. Winter 2013 2. Rhymes and Rigmaroles 147 pages, refused a court petition to rekindle Literary Style 20cm, 65 poems. Hamilton, N.Z.: Leigh’s conjugal rights. They divorced in Printed at the office of the Waikato and 1930. The couple had two children Elliott writes, as mentioned, in the bardic King Country Press, [1939]. Turnbull according to his WWI file at Archives tradition. He is an admirer of Robbie copy inscribed by the author. New Zealand (now unrestricted). Burns, James Beattie’s The Minstrel and 3. Idylls of an Idler 172 pages, 19cm, His son Edgar Elliott served in Crete other classical and Romantic poets such 107 poems. Hamilton, N.Z.: Waikato during World War II according to his as Sir Walter Scott. and King Country Press, 1942. poem on the subject. His daughter, Mrs He is versatile and can write in various 4. A Rhymer’s Sketchbook 177 pages, Helen Laird, lived in Auckland. forms: ballads, narrative tales, Māori and 19cm, 96 poems. Hamilton, N.Z.: Returning from war in 1919, he was a folk legends in verse, fairy tale verse, Printed by Waikato and King Country member of a local hydroelectric board shorter lyric poetry and light verse, Press, 1943. Turnbull copy inscribed by appointed to draw up boundaries for the elegies, popular verse on racing, horses the author. Te Awamutu district (New Zealand and country-life, and sentimental pieces 5. Poetic Potpourri 167 pages, 19cm, Herald, 6 February 1919). picturing the Waikato. 107 poems. Hamilton [N.Z.]: Waikato Throughout the ’20s and ’30s he must’ve He is adept as a storyteller relating tales and King Country Press, 1946. Turnbull received/inherited some family fortune. from overseas characters and other copy inscribed by the author. Elliott traveled like a modern Ulysses travelers he has met, from America to 6. Odes & Episodes 166 pages, 18cm, across North America (California, Texas, India to New Zealand. His narrative tales 111 poems. Hamilton [N.Z.]: Printed at Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, like ‘Liza Lee of Hutewai’, ‘Island the office of the Waikato and King Mississippi, East St Louis, Wisconsin, Dreams’ and ‘Rose Dillon’ among others Country Press, 1950. Turnbull copy Alabama and Chicago), Canada are compelling. inscribed by the author. (Vancouver, Niagara and Ontario), South He has his shortcomings. Each book has America (the Andes, Chile, Peru and a hard-luck story about bad reviews Biography Argentina), North Africa and the Middle received and one has a poem replying to East (Nineveh, Egypt) and visited a note from the Petone Library reading Elliott was born in Northern Ireland on London, Australia, Scotland, South and returning two of his books. His 9 January 1879. His childhood alluded to Africa (Durban, Transvaal), and Ireland. poetry can seem flat, overly sentimental, in poems was spent in ‘sweet He also traveled to the sub-continent trite, clichéd and dull at times, but he is Ballyholme’ in Northern Ireland and at (India) and Asia (Japan, Singapore, competent enough. He has produced a some later point in Lower Manhattan, China, Penang, Siam) via the ship body of variable work worthy of some New York. It is safe to assume that his “Gorgon” a new service in the 1930s attention. family are of Irish origin and may have connecting Singapore to West Australia. Critics may react poorly to what comes moved to America briefly. Outside of travel and literary pursuits, he across as a racially superior European Elliott left in search of his fortune, first co-founded the Waipa Racing Club and attitude and there is non-sympathy for taking in Australia’s gold-rush the Hamilton Racing Club. He was a women and suffragettes, but this verse mountains before heading for New lover of horses but not of Governments. could well be written as narrative Zealand. In one of his poems, ‘Lines to A. S. monologues portraying the politics and He arrived in New Zealand in 1905 first Wallace’, he declines nomination for the men of his period and may not be the farming in the North Auckland region. In Waikato electorate preferring the call of author’s own views. the Waikato he managed the stock the Muse and ‘the broad highway’. His Aside from his bad reviews, his verse department of the Farmers’ Co-operative official declining of the nomination is in had support from fellow poet and book Auctioneering Company Ltd in Hamilton the New Zealand Herald, 24 May 1922. critic for the Evening Post “Quillus” for eight years, then became a stock As a writer, he contributed letters and [A F T Chorlton]. Chorlton writes about agent on his own behalf. He bought verses to the Waipa Post and the Waikato him in his memoirs, The Wandering crown land himself in December 1913 Times and was the official “bard” of the School: Memories in Prose and Verse (Auckland Star, 20 December) farming Hamilton Caledonian Society. (1960) as well as in The Evening Post, in Te Awamutu. He died in 1955 aged 76 years, leaving 2 November 1944, 17 February 1945 (for In the New Zealand Gazette, 29 June no reputation as a poet and no ‘putting Hamilton [poets and writers] 1918, No. 87, p. 2239, he is called up for subsequent interest since his death. conspicuously on the map’) and again on military service and his poem from that Bookseller Rowan Gibbs (Smith’s 23 June 1945. This friendship is also year ‘Lines Written in a Camp’ (in Bookshop) notes seeing his books around recorded by Niel Wright in his Account Random Rhymes) implies that it was near the second-hand trade. There is no of the Comic Poet A F T Chorlton the end of the war (around October) so subsequent mention of him either in the (1998). Another writer that was in he may not have seen action before modern history of the Te Awamutu contact with Elliott and to whom he Peace was declared in November. region published in 1984. dedicates verses is “J.C. [John Elliott married Leigh Euphrosine Collins His burial was a cremation, and his ashes Christie?]”. A fellow Hamilton writer on 23 December 1913, and they later interned at the Waikumete Cemetery also known to Elliott is Marcus G. B. separated. By 1929 and 1930 he had (Auckland). James whose “dramatic phantasie” In a 2 . Poetry Archive Persian Garden appeared in 1945 printed And many another left Keep me in your thought always, by the Waikato Times. In vigour still to grace Oft shall mine be homeward straying, In one of Elliott’s American poems, he That tree it helped adorn, shall miss In that spirit land, let’s fancy relates a gangster’s death, a rival leader The fallen from its place.
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