As an editor, he "upheld Georgian poetic conventions and discouraged literary modernism", and encouraged the works of Robin Hyde.
[2] Marris worked for the paper until 1924,[3] published poems by Robin Hyde and A. R. D. Fairburn, and stated he discovered Eileen Duggan.
Due to his Georgian ideals, he was often in conflict with avant-garde poets who centralized around the Caxton Press and Denis Glover.
[7] In the satirical poem The Arraignment of Paris, Glover stated Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters".
As an editor, Marris "upheld Georgian poetic conventions and discouraged literary modernism" and favoured authors such as J. C. Andersen, Duggan, Dora Hagemeyer, and Hyde.