Download or read book Collected Poems 1951 2006 C K Stead written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previously unpublished poems from his early days.
Download or read book Collected Poems 1951 2006 C K Stead written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previously unpublished poems from his early days.
Download or read book Collected Poems 1951 2006 written by Christian Karlson Stead and published by Carcanet Poetry. This book was released on 2009 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Allen Curnow written by Terry Sturm and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
Download or read book White Apples and the Taste of Stone written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the entire career of the celebrated American poet, a collection of 226 works represents sixty years of poetic endeavor, including recent poems and a CD containing readings by the author.
Download or read book The Lyric in the Age of the Brain written by Nikki Skillman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
Download or read book Early Days Yet written by Allen Curnow and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Days Yet is a major publication in which the greatest of all New Zealand poets presents twelve previously uncollected poems that are strong, rich and brilliant. These poems lead off into the past and introduce readers to the poems published since 1970, in addition to a selection from the 40s, 50s and 60s. Vivid childhood memories predominate in the new poems but sharp contemporary concerns, satiric or tragic, are always present. Early Days Yet is an astounding and awe-inspiring volume with depths that no reader can readily exhaust or fully grasp. The poems collected in Early Days Yet won the New Zealand Book Award multiple times as well as the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Download or read book Directed by Desire written by June Jordan and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."
Download or read book Britannica Book of the Year 2010 written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britannica Book of the Year 2010 provides a valuable veiwpoint of the people and events that shaped the year and serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world. It is an accurate and comprehensive reference that you will reach for again and again.
Download or read book Katherine Mansfield and World War One written by Gerri Kimber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Katherine Mansfield's engagement with the First World War and its impact on her writingsThis special issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies is in remembrance of the centenary of one of the most significant events of the modernist period. Like the reclamation of women's war writings that we have already seen in relation to Virginia Woolf and others, Mansfield's literary response to the key political event of her time is fundamental to our understanding of her developing writerly style. It is in her responses to the war that we find a 'political Mansfield', and the articles in this volume provide us with a greater appreciation of Mansfield in her socio-historical context. In offering new readings of Mansfield's explicit and implicit war stories, the contributions to this volume refine and extend our knowledge of particular stories and their genealogy. They illuminate the specific and more general influences of the war on Mansfield's evolving technique and, jointly, they reveal the importance of the war on her literary language, as well as for her own particular brand of modernism. This volume helps develop our ideas of what constitute war writings and, in so doing, expands the scope of Mansfield scholarship and the field of First World War studies.
Download or read book All the Tiny Moments Blazing written by Ged Pope and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London. The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith’s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.
Download or read book What You Made of It written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like Sister Hollywood and My Name Was Judas, criticism in the London Review of Books and the Financial Times, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet and critic. It is also a period when Stead's fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument &– from The Bone People to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer's flat.What was it like to be Allen Curnow's designated &‘Critic across the Crescent'; or alternatively to be labelled &‘the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit'? How did poems emerge from time and place, sometimes as naturally as &‘leaves to a tree', sometimes effortfully? And how did novels about individual men and women retell stories of war (World War II, Yugoslavia, Iraq) and peace?Covering Stead's travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, What You Made of It takes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers &– and all in Stead's famously lucid &‘story-telling' prose.
Download or read book You have a Lot to Lose written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman—poet, novelist, critic, activist. C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three. It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries, and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books—of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors. From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead's You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand's intellectual and cultural history.
Download or read book Blue Lash written by James Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blue Lash, James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies. The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas "grind their teeth/under the blue roof of August"; a quartz pebble becomes "little knuckle/petrified egg/white as a wave-cap"; a Jet Ski "revs past the dock/like a demon out of Milton." Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.
Download or read book Fishing for Lightning written by Sarah Holland-Batt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style. From the villanelle to the verse novel, the readymade and the remix to the sonnet, Holland-Batt's essays range across the breadth of contemporary poetry, but also delve into the richness of poetic and literary history, connecting the contemporary to the ancient. Dazzling in its erudition, but always accessible and entertaining, Fishing for Lightning convinces us of the power of poetry to change our lives.
Download or read book Building Jerusalem written by Kevin J. Gardner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poems by well-known poets echoing the love of the parish church in the British literary memory. Nostalgia and love of parish churches is deeply embedded in the British psyche. Following the success of Poems in the Porch, a collection of hitherto unpublished poems on parish churches by Sir John Betjeman, Kevin Gardner has now assembled a new anthology of poems on the same theme yet with a greater diversity of post-war authors – Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, U. A. Fanthorpe and many others. The collection is introduced by a fascinating critical introduction, 'Anglican Memory and Post-war British Poetry' and will appeal to church and poetry lovers alike in their droves.
Download or read book In the Half Light of a Dying Day written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old friend, a new character &– C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection.In two sequences the poet plays with the lines of history and love, the fictional and the autobiographical. Reflecting on a long career and familiar faces, the first sequence walks the reader from classical Rome to contemporary Aotearoa. Then in the shade of Parnell begins a tender address to a new character, Kezia, lover and friend just lost.Lyrical and deeply moving, In the Half Light of a Dying Day is a late-career masterpiece.
