R A K Mason - New Zealand Writers and Their Work

Published by Oxford University Press, 1977, 64 pages.

RAK Mason was one of the strongest and most original voices to be heard in New Zealand poetry from the 1920s. Apart from his editing of the Auckland journal 'Phoenix' and his tenure of the Robert Burns Fellowship in Dunedin, Mason's chief work was for radical political and social rather than literary causes. In this study, Dr Weir offers a fresh examination of the sources of his poetic power, using a wider range of drafts and texts than any earlier critical assessment.