Brasch, Charles (1909–1973)

New Zealand poet. Together with Denis Glover and James Bertram, he founded the influential literary quarterly Landfall in 1947. As its editor until 1966, he played an important role in publishing, criticizing, and encouraging New Zealand literature. His poetry, orthodox in Disputed Ground (1948) and The Estate (1957), became more individual with Ambulando (1964), Not Far Off (1969), and the posthumous Home Ground (1974).

Brasch was born in Dunedin, and educated in New Zealand and at Oxford University. He worked as an archaeologist in Egypt, a teacher of problem children, and, during World War II, a civil servant in London.