'From Island to Island': Extracts from an Unpublished Autobiography

In: The Journal of New Zealand Studies, Band 9, Heft 1

Abstract

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was a leading figure in the post-war Literary Society of Victoria University College which after several 'Broadsheets', published a new literary journal Hilltop in 1949. In these extracts from his unpublished autobiography we approach some of the sources of his poems, especially that of'The Return ', his most celebrated single work, first published in Hilltop 2 under the title 'Landscape with Figures'. He also gives us a student's view of life at Victoria, but before coming to Wellington he had 'reluctantly and resentfully' enrolled as a student at Otago University for the 1944 academic year...