D. McKEE WRIGHT’S FIRST BOOK
David McKee Wright is one of the best known of New Zealand poets who first struck a characteristically New Zealand note in their work. A new edition of his works has just been published, but in preparing his selection, the editor consulted the material in the library. It was disappointing to find that no copy of Wright’s earliest twentypage booklet Aorangi and other Verses, Mills & Dick, Dun-
edin, 1896, was on the shelves. Enquiries elsewhere were equally unavailing. Serle’s Bibliography of Australasian Poetry listed it, quoting from Hocken’s Bibliography, but the Hocken Library and its catalogue did not record a copy. Its rarity began to become extreme, when among a group of pamphlets awaiting cataloguing from the Kinsey Collection, a perfectly preserved copy was discovered. It would now be useful to know if other copies exist, and where. Later works of the poet are much less elusive.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume VII, 1 June 1947, Page 19
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