ARD (Rex) Fairburn

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Publications & Biography

• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

• ‘Tuatara’ fabric print by Fairburn
• 1947 prints  

On-line Works

Texts from A.R.D Fairburn Selected Poems (Victoria UP, 1995), ed. Mac Jackson, except for ‘The Voyage.’

• In the Younger Land
• Odysseus (‘Odysseus, the old wanderer’)
• All I Have Desired
• Odysseus (‘I have come back as a stone falls to earth’)
• Rhyme of the Dead Self
• Disquisition on Death
• Winter Night
• Empty House
• First Things
• Dominion
• Full Fathom Five
• A Farewell
• Tapu
• The Cave
• Wild Love
• Walking on My Feet
• To A Friend in the Wilderness
• The Voyage
• Down On My Luck

• The Culture Industry (nzepc/Landfall 39)

About Rex Fairburn

• R.A.K. Mason, A Talk on Rex Fairburn to the Literary Club at Auckland University College, 8 April 1957 (nzepc)
• Mac Jackson, Remembering Mason Remembering Fairburn (nzepc)
• Mac Jackson, Introduction to A.R.D. Fairburn Selected Poems (nzepc/VUP)

Audio

From A.R.D. Fairburn Reading Six of His Poems (Mermaid Press, 1958)

• Full Fathom Five (nzepc)
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• A Farewell (nzepc)
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• The Cave (nzepc)
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• Walking on My Feet (nzepc)
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• Letter to Mason from Norfolk Island, 26 November 1926
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• Letter to Mason from Auckland, 18 January 1928,
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• Letter to Mason from Clench Cobham, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, 31 July 1932
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• Mason reads Fairburn's 'Lines for a Revolutionary' (1932)
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 Ross Mullins, setting of Rhyme of the Dead Self

 My Imaginary Journey (Public Address)

• University of Auckland. FAIRBURN, A.R.D. (Arthur Rex Dugard), 1904-1957.  Papers. 1926-1927; ca 1930-ca 1957. [Description]

• First section of 23 September 1935 typescript of Dominion (nzepc)
• Fairburn’s 1925-30 Scrapbook (nzepc)

Links

• Clifton Firth Portrait of ARD Fairburn 1945-46 (ACL Heritage Images)
• Clifton Firth portrait of ARD Fairburn 1953 (ACL Heritage Images)
• Ross Mullins, Tidemarks CD. Setting of Rhyme of the Dead Self.
• Homage to A.R.D. Fairburn : readings from his poems by Curnow, Glover, Baxter, Smithyman, Musgrove. Recorded in the University of Auckland.
• The Rakehelly Man and Other Fairburniana [sound recording] / restored by Denis Glover, Pat Evison [and] Sydney Musgrove, in an edition by James McNeish.

credit: Clifton Firth 1945-46

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Last updated 22 September, 2004