Denis James Matthews Glover was a New Zealand poet and publisher. Born in Dunedin, he attended the University of Canterbury where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently lectured. He worked as a reporter and editor for a time, and in 1937 founded the Caxton Press, which published the works of many well-known New Zealand writers of the day. After a period of service in World War II, he and his friend Charles Brasch founded the literary magazine Landfall, which Caxton began publishing in 1947.
Denis Glover
Left to right: Ian Milner, Denis Glover, and Robert William Lowry at the 'Dog-box', St Elmos flats, Christchurch. Taken by an unidentified photographer in December 1933.
The Christchurch Arts Centre, formerly part of the campus of the University of Canterbury, which Glover attended in the 1930s.
HMS Onslaught
Charles Orwell Brasch was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal Landfall, and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant impact on the development of a literary and artistic culture in New Zealand. His poetry continues to be published in anthologies today, and he provided substantial philanthropic support to the arts in New Zealand, including by establishing the Robert Burns Fellowship, the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, by providing financial support to New Zealand writers and artists during his lifetime, and by bequeathing his extensive collection of books and artwork in his will to the Hocken Library and the University of Otago.
Brasch, c. 1960
Brasch with his father, Hyam (Henry), and sister Lesley, c. 1920
Brasch as a young adult
Memorial plaque dedicated to Brasch in Dunedin, on the Writers' Walk on the Octagon