In a way crafty and clear

JOHN PASCOE, by Chris Maclean (Craig Potten Publishing/The Whitcombe Press, $59.95).

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17th January, 2004

John Pascoe - "Johnny" to friends - was a civil servant who held the low-profiled position of chief archivist when he died suddenly in 1972. Notice of his death was overshadowed by the far more public obsequies for poet James K Baxter over the same few days. Previously, Pascoe had been secretary of the Historic Places Trust and, briefly, controller of wildlife for the Department of Internal Affairs. Pascoe was also a mountaineer, though not a great one; a non-fiction writer, though not of the first rank; and an execrable poet and failed novelist. He trained himself to be an outstandingly ...

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