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Product Description: The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead's fifteenth collection of poetry, in which the writer journeys in time and space from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Cote d'Azur; Catullus returns to receive plaudits, write to friends and read the world; and various other literary fellows appear in person, dream or conversation - Allen Curnow and Hugh Kawharu, Frank Sargeson and Barry Humphries, Robert Creeley and Katherine Mansfield...read more

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9781908376145 | Arc Pubns Todmorden, July 17, 2013, cover price $17.75 | About this edition: The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead's fifteenth collection of poetry, in which the writer journeys in time and space from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Cote d'Azur; Catullus returns to receive plaudits, write to friends and read the world; and various other literary fellows appear in person, dream or conversation - Allen Curnow and Hugh Kawharu, Frank Sargeson and Barry Humphries, Robert Creeley and Katherine Mansfield.

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Product 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...read more

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9781869407353 | Auckland Univ Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Exploring literature, cultures, and surroundings—both physical and social—the poems in this collection are firmly attached to the author's memories.

Product Description: In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.K. Stead "has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their entire chapters" said the Sunday Times...read more

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9781623650308 | Maclehose Pr, April 7, 2015, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.
9780857052223 | Gardners Books, September 27, 2012, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.

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9781681449562 | Maclehose Pr, April 5, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.
9781780877778 | Gardners Books, September 26, 2013, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.

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Product Description: From his birth in 1932 to his first departure from New Zealand in 1956, this "autobiopsy" chronicles C. K. Stead's first 23 years, casting a critical eye and a novelist's voice over the author's own life. From running wild as a boy in Cornwall Park and joining the Labour Party at age seven to falling in love with Diane Henderson, a wide range of adventures and experiences are revealed with honesty and the clarity only time can bring...read more

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9781869404543, titled "South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956" | Auckland Univ Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From his birth in 1932 to his first departure from New Zealand in 1956, this "autobiopsy" chronicles C.

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.

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9781869404185 | Auckland Univ Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead’s most lasting and memorable works into a single volume.

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9781857549850, titled "Collected Poems 1951-2006" | Carcanet Pr, January 29, 2009, cover price $31.55

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Product 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...read more

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9781869404123 | Auckland Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: The “black river” of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet’s feeling of frailty following a stroke, which temporarily impaired his ability to read or write, and the subsequent excitement of recovery...read more

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9781869403850 | Auckland Univ Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The “black river” of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C.

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Presents the story of Jesus as told by Judas. This book recalls friendship of Judas with Jesus; their schooling together; their families; the people who would go on to be disciples and followers; their journeys together and their dealings with the powers of Rome and the Temple. It presents a story of friendship and rivalry.

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9781846550126 | Random House Uk Ltd, November 2, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas?

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9780099501381 | Random House Uk Ltd, April 28, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents the story of Jesus as told by Judas.

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A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.

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9780826479334, titled "New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot" | New edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 30, 2005), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
9780485121377 | Rep sub edition (Athlone Pr, March 1, 1998), cover price $39.95
9780812212440 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses and cows, Auckland, and even the author's own legs. These satirical poems take weapons from the writers of the past and skewer politicians of the present, and reflect on a range of international writers, including Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover...read more

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9781869403300 | Auckland Univ Pr, April 28, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses and cows, Auckland, and even the author's own legs.

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9781846840418 | Gardners Books, April 14, 2005, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: One of the Bloomsbury set, Katherine Mansfield’s relationship with John Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the “new kind of fiction” of the time is the subject of this novel, an appealing portrait of a writer and her celebrated circle.

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9781843431763 | Harvill Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: One of the Bloomsbury set, Katherine Mansfield’s relationship with John Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the “new kind of fiction” of the time is the subject of this novel, an appealing portrait of a writer and her celebrated circle.

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9780099468653 | Random House Uk Ltd, March 30, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Spanning three years in the life of writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to break through as a writer.

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Product Description: A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. There was Australian Samantha Conlan, fleeing an affair with Freddy Goldstein, who carried with him a dark history. Rajiv was an earnest young Indian at work on a study of Yeats, and Heather was the girl with whom Laszlo exchanged lessons on Shakespeare for lessons in love...read more

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9781860469312 | Harvill Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Novelist Laszlo Winter finds himself attracted to the unavailable Samantha Conlan and drifts into a variety of relationships, including one with a prostitute named Heather, who trades sex for lessons on Shakespeare.

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9780099447061 | Vintage Uk, March 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s.

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Product Description: In the spacious opening sequence, "King's Lynn & the Pacific" the poet finds moving connections between King's Lynn in Norfolk and the distant Pacific via two of Cook's voyages. A central mixed group, "Creation, etc", includes some more Catullus poems, using Stead's favourite mouthpiece for satire, wit and sometimes meditation, some stylish concrete poems, some quite substantial poems on major philosophical matters, some sharp reflections on people, places and myths...read more

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9781869402860 | Auckland Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the spacious opening sequence, "King's Lynn & the Pacific" the poet finds moving connections between King's Lynn in Norfolk and the distant Pacific via two of Cook's voyages.

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Product Description: The author addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the last century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, Kendrick Smithyman, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame (two essays), Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee, and the talented younger writer Elizabeth Knox...read more

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9781869402723 | Auckland Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the last century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, Kendrick Smithyman, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame (two essays), Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee, and the talented younger writer Elizabeth Knox.

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Product Description: "Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems...read more

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9781860467547 | Harvill Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem.
9780002712170 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1993), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: "Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem.

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Product Description: Into this volume C.K. Stead gathers a selection of his essays from the past decade, mixing literary criticism with autobiography. He reviews the work of other writers, meditates on the teaching of literature, revisits some controversies and explores literary history...read more

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9781877133954 | Paul & Co Pub Consortium, November 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Into this volume C.

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Product Description: This collection of poems by one of New Zealand's best known poets ranges from winter in Edmonton and summer in Perigord to war in Crete and Croatia, to ease in Auckland. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781869402211 | Auckland Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection of poems by one of New Zealand's best known poets ranges from winter in Edmonton and summer in Perigord to war in Crete and Croatia, to ease in Auckland.

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Product Description: Two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend their colleague's funeral. Afterward Newall reveals the secret that O'Dwyer took to the grave. During the Battle of Crete in World War II a Maori soldier died in circumstances that led to his family placing a curse on O'Dwyer...read more

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9781860467103 | Harvill Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An Oxford don learns that the family of a Maori soldier who died under his command in World War II has placed a curse on him.

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9781860468360 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend their colleague's funeral.
9781860468216 | Vintage Uk, June 30, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II?

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Product Description: Draws on nine previous collections of Stead's poetry and introduces over 40 new poems. This work provides a record of over 40 years of making poetry, and includes poems based on the Latin poet Catullus, a sharp satiric voice.

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9781869401610 | Auckland Univ Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Draws on nine previous collections of Stead's poetry and introduces over 40 new poems.

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Product Description: As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth. It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of Auckland, where the artist Melior Farbro grew his vegetables and let Cecilia Skyways follow her own form of Zen Buddhism in his garden hut...read more

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9781860460807 | Harvill Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.

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Product Description: Seen from New Zealand during the war, Hollywood seemed to Bill Harper and his family too magical to be real. Bill's sister, Arlene, disappears from home. She is found - having an affair with a producer, arraigned before the UnAmerican Activities Committee and has success as a scriptwriter...read more

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9780708925072 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: To Bill Harper and his family, in New Zealand during the war, Hollywoood seems a magical place.
9780312044237 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: New Zealand's Harper family views Hollywood and the movies as an escape from the devastation of World War II, but Bill Harper, driven by dreams and memories, goes searching for the past, his lost sister, and the real Hollywood

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9780002712187 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Seen from New Zealand during the war, Hollywood seemed to Bill Harper and his family too magical to be real.

Product Description: This is the fifth in a series of collections of short stories from around the world. It offers examples from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Papua New Guinea and Tonga together with work from the longer established Anglophone literature of New Zealand...read more
By C. K. Stead (editor)

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9780571167654 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This is the fifth in a series of collections of short stories from around the world.

Product Description: The first new collection of verse from this distinguished New Zealand writer for some years.

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9781869400248 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The first new collection of verse from this distinguished New Zealand writer for some years.

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