Author: C. K. Stead Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 1775580474 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 565
Book Description
This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead’s most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previously unpublished poems from his early days.
Author: Christian Karlson Stead Publisher: Carcanet Poetry ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 572
Book Description
As well as being one of New Zealand's most celebrated living writers, C.K. Stead has earned an international audience for his poetry and fiction.
Author: Christian Karlson Stead Publisher: ARC Publications ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Arc International Poets "C. K. Stead is a leading New Zealand writer with umpteen books under his belt. His penchant is for crisp, ironic observation with supporting detail which, in most cases, seems entirely congruous. He scores highly on verve and he roots out some tasty topics." Ken Gladdish, PQR
Author: John Kinsella Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9401209383 Category : Languages : en Pages : 580
Book Description
These volumes present John Kinsella’s uncollected critical writings and personal reflections from the early 1990s to the present. Included are extended pieces of memoir written in the Western Australian wheatbelt and the Cambridge fens, as well as acute essays and commentaries on the nature and genesis of personal and public poetics. Pivotal are a sense of place and how we write out of it; pastoral’s relevance to contemporary poetry; how we evaluate and critique (post)colonial creativity and intrusion into Indigenous spaces; and engaged analysis of activism and responsibility in poetry and literary discourse. The author is well-known for saying he is preeminently an “anarchist, vegan, pacifist” – not stock epithets, but the raison d’être behind his work. The collection moves from overviews of contemporary Australian poetry to studies of such writers as Randolph Stow, Ouyang Yu, Charmaine Papertalk–Green, Lionel Fogarty, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Dorothy Hewett, Judith Wright, Alamgir Hashmi, Patrick Lane, Robert Sullivan, C.K. Stead, and J.H. Prynne, and on to numerous book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, originally published in newspapers and journals from around the world. There are also searching reflections on visual artists (Sidney Nolan, Karl Wiebke, Shaun Atkinson) and wide-ranging opinion pieces and editorials. In counterpoint are conversations with other writers (Rosanna Warren, Rod Mengham, Alvin Pang, and Tracy Ryan) and explorations of schooling, being struck by lightning, ‘international regionalism’, hybridity, and experimental poetry. This two-volume argosy has been brought together by scholar and editor Gordon Collier, who has allowed the original versions to speak with their unique informal–formal ductus. Kinsella’s interest is in the ethics of space and how we use it. His considerations of the wheatbelt through Wagner and Dante (and rewritings of these), and, in Thoreauvian vein, his ‘place’ at Jam Tree Gully on the edge of Western Australia’s Avon Valley form a web of affirmation and anxiety: it is space he feels both part of and outside, em¬braced in its every magnitude but felt to be stolen land, whose restitution needs articulating in literature and in real time. Beneath it all is a celebration of the natural world – every plant, animal, rock, sentinel peak, and grain of sand – and a commitment to an ecological poetics.
Author: C.K. Stead Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0826479332 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
'Reading T. S. Eliot and reading about T. S. Eliot were equally formative experiences for my generation. One of the books about him which greatly appealed to me when I first read it ... was The New Poetic by the New Zealand poet and critic, C. K. Stead...' Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue (1986)
Author: C. K. Stead Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 1775582175 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
Exploring literature, cultures, and surroundings—both physical and social—the poems in this collection are firmly attached to the author's memories. With appearances by various other literary fellows, in person, dream, or conversation—including Curnow, Kawharu, Sargeson, Creeley, Mansfield, and Wordsworth—this book also features warmly translated versions of poems by Montale, Vita, and Jaccottet alongside glimpses of fantails and elegies for friends. Urging its readers to stay alert and pay attention to each moment, these poems likewise consider the acceptance of silence.
Author: C. K. Stead Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 1775580288 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author's earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his latest experiences on the literary trail. This trip through literary history involves many writers, including Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, Michael King, and Elizabeth Knox. The book also includes a series of journal extracts that allow readers to get closer to the mind of the writer, his strong personal views about other writers, and his deep commitment to the role of criticism in literary life.
Author: C. K. Stead
Author: Christian Karlson Stead
Author: Christian Karlson Stead
Author: Christian Karlson Stead
Author: Christian Karlson Stead
Author: Christian Karlson Stead
Author: John Kinsella
Author: C.K. Stead
Author: C. K. Stead
Author: C. K. Stead