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Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn (2 February 1904 – 25 March 1957), commonly known by his initials A. R. D. Fairburn and otherwise as Rex, was a New Zealand poet who was born and died in Auckland.
Fairburn was born in Auckland in 1904. His grandfather, the surveyor, thinker and traveller Edwin Fairburn, was one of the first Pākehā born in New Zealand in 1827. His great-grandfather, William Thomas Fairburn, had come to New Zealand as a missionary for the
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1883 births 1957 deaths People educated at Auckland Grammar School New Zealand male poets University of Auckland faculty 20th-century New Zealand poets 20th-century New Zealand male writers Fairburn–Newman family {{NewZealand-poet-stub
Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn (2 February 1904 – 25 March 1957), commonly known by his initials A. R. D. Fairburn and otherwise as Rex, was a New Zealand poet who was born and died in Auckland.
Fairburn was born in Auckland in 1904. His grandfather, the surveyor, thinker and traveller Edwin Fairburn, was one of the first Pākehā born in New Zealand in 1827. His great-grandfather, William Thomas Fairburn, had come to New Zealand as a missionary for the New Zealand Church Missionary Society
The New Zealand Church Missionary Society is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent mission ...
in 1819.
Fairburn attended Auckland Grammar School
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It ...
, where he first met R. A. K. Mason, and worked at various jobs, including relief work on the roads. Later he tutored in English and lectured on the history and theory of Art at Elam School of Art, Auckland University College. His poetry was initially influenced by the (then unfashionable) Georgian poets.
Works
*''He Shall Not Rise''930
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Events
By place
Europe
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*'' Dominion'' (1938)
*''Poems 1929–41''
*''Walking on My Feet'' (1945)
*''Strange Rendezview'' (1952)
*''Three Poems'' including ''Dominion, The Voyage, To a Friend in the Wilderness'' (1952)
:plus satirical and light verse including:
*''The Sky is a Limpet (A Polytickle Parrotty)''
*''How to Ride a Bicycle (In Seventeen Lovely Colours)''
*''The Rakehelly Man''
*''Poetry Harbinger''
"Reverie on the Rat"
"Rhyme of the Dead Self"
References
External links
Biography in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Dinah Holman and Janis Fairburn about their father fo
Cultural Icons
project. Audio.
1883 births 1957 deaths People educated at Auckland Grammar School New Zealand male poets University of Auckland faculty 20th-century New Zealand poets 20th-century New Zealand male writers Fairburn–Newman family {{NewZealand-poet-stub