C.K. Stead

C.K. Stead is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland. His poem in this issue is dedicated to the memory of Allen Curnow, many of whose poems were published in the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘The Gift’ · 30 June 2011

• Battle of the Wasps: Eliot v. Mansfield · 3 March 2011

• Poem: ‘Nine Ways of Looking at a Fantail’ · 10 September 2009

• Diary: truth and autobiographies · 27 April 2000

• Poem: ‘Play It Again’ · 17 September 1998

• Tantrums · 22 February 1996

  • Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont and Fanny Imlay Godwin edited by Marion Kingston Stocking

• The Master · 30 November 1995

  • Shards of Memory by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• Perfect Companions · 8 June 1995

  • Christina Stead: A Biography by Hazel Rowley

• A Storm in His Luggage · 26 January 1995

  • Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by David Gordon
  • ‘Agenda’: An Anthology. The First Four Decades edited by William Cookson

• Poem: ‘Sylvia Plath’ · 12 May 1994

• Ellipticity · 10 June 1993

  • Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

• Petal by Petal · 27 May 1993

  • E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 edited by George Firmage

• At Sweetpea Mansions · 28 January 1993

  • Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner

• Dream on · 3 December 1992

  • A World of My Own: A Dream Diary by Graham Greene

• God’s Gift to Australia · 24 September 1992

  • Woman of an Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally

• O Harashbery! · 23 April 1992

  • The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara edited by Donald Allen
  • Flow Chart by John Ashbery

• Here to take Karl Stead to lunch · 30 January 1992

  • Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation by John Lahr

• Diary · 21 November 1991

• Christ’s Teeth · 10 October 1991

  • Studies in the Ezra Pound by Donald Davie
  • Poems 1963-1983 by Michael Longley
  • Under the Circumstances by D.J. Enright
  • In the Echoey Tunnel by Christopher Reid
  • A Cold Coming by Tony Harrison

• Ancient Orthodoxies · 23 May 1991

  • Antidotes by C.H. Sisson
  • Dog Fox Field by Les Murray
  • True Colours by Neil Powell
  • Eating strawberries in the Necropolis by Michael Hulse

• Second Wind · 16 February 1989

  • Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972-1988 by Allen Curnow

• Poem: ‘The Radiant Way’ · 15 September 1988

• Standing up to the city slickers · 18 February 1988

  • Selected Poems by Les Murray
  • The Daylight Moon by Les Murray

• Mrs Bowdenhood · 26 November 1987

  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin

• War Book · 18 December 1986

  • The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera

• Chiara Ridolfi · 9 October 1986

  • Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • The Dresden Gate by Michael Schmidt
  • First Fictions: Introduction 9 by Deborah Moffat, Kristien Hemmerechts, Douglas Glover, Dorothy Nimmo and Jaci Stephen
  • Continent by Jim Crace

• C.K. Stead writes about Christina Stead · 4 September 1986

  • Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead edited by R.G. Geering
  • The Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead

• Poem: ‘Deconstructing the ‘Rainbow Warrior’’ · 3 April 1986

• Diary · 18 October 1984

• Poem: ‘Between’ · 22 December 1983

• Grumbles · 15 October 1981

  • Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait by Patrick White

• Poem: ‘A Warm Wind from the East’ · 16 July 1981

• Rebellion · 7 May 1981

  • I passed this way by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

• Homage to Ezra Pound · 19 March 1981

  • The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound by Michael Alexander
  • Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos by Anthony Woodward
  • Ezra Pound and the Cantos: A Record of Struggle by Wendy Stallard Flory
  • Ezra Pound and His World by Peter Ackroyd
  • End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound with Poems from Ezra Pound’s H.D. Book edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King

• What became of Modernism? · 1 May 1980

  • Five American Poets by John Matthias, introduction by Michael Schmidt
  • The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter
  • Carpenters of Light by Neil Powell
  • Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill
  • The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart
  • Skull of Adam by Stanley Moss
  • Poems 1928-1978 by Stanley Kunitz

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