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C.K. Stead
A striking new collection of accessible yet elegant stories from literary giant and master craftsman CK Stead.
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Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic. Here he combines most of the important essays in In the Glass Case (AUP, 1981), long…
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Another fine collection by one of the Commonwealth’s best writers, who is now writing poetry prolifically as he pauses between novels. It includes some moving memories of childhood, poems about…
Collects C.K. Stead’s most recent poems. The brilliant and moving focus of the collection is its final sequence, written after Stead suffered a stroke which temporarily affected his ability to…
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…
This collection 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…
This detailed volume presents a selection of early comments on the play, reviews of post-war productions and modern critical studies. Coleridge, Richard David, Edward Dowden, William Empson, William Hazlitt, Harold…
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.
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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…
A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
