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Poem – C K Stead
91 Woodstock Road Less timid each day the squirrel comes to our door for her morning conker. I’ve gathered them from the carpark by the Faculty Library, enough to keep her supplied well into winter. In quick paws she spins…
Poem – C K Stead
Tohunga Crescent Across our street the Allen Curnow house sold and garden-tidied and refurbished, respectably letting as “AirBnB” is home to wild parties, and just once a riot bringing cop cars, a paddy wagon, pepper spray and more than one…
Making it and making it up, C K Stead
Life as a Novel – A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt, Volume I, 1932-1973 Philip Temple David Ling, $45.00, ISBN 9781927305447 Recently, I have been writing an autobiography and consequently hunting out old letters. One I found, written to Kay from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, C K Stead, David Ling, Issue 125, Maurice Shadbolt, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Imagined pasts, alternative futures, Craig Cliff
The Necessary Angel C K Stead Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781760631529 Salt Picnic Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561698 Our Future is in the Air Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561179 When a white male…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Autumn 2018, C K Stead, Craig Cliff, Issue 121, Patrick Evans, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary — Mike Doyle
“A nice guy” C K Stead recalls the poet and critic Mike Doyle (1928-2016) Late in December, I received a phone call to say my former colleague, and friend of many years, Mike Doyle had died at home in Canada.…
Poem — C K Stead
A matter of time When I was young it was C.P. Snow averred anyone who did not know the Second Law of Thermodynamics was uneducated. ‘Two Cultures’ was his bag and what he wanted was scientists reading poems, Arts chaps…
Poem — C K Stead
The Widow Will Not Be Returning The widow across the street has been taken to live with her family, and later perhaps to a hospice. Last week I was called to witness her will. Now Rufus her little dog…
Late style, Michael Hulse
The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 103, Michael Hulse, Peter Bland, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Nothing sacred, Christine Johnston
Risk C K Stead MacLehose Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780857052230 C K Stead is a towering figure in New Zealand writing – a distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He has…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, C K Stead, Christine Johnston, Issue 101, MacLehose Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review