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C. K. Stead - This Side of Silence, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

This Side of Silence

Av C. K. Stead

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Beskrivning
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of New Zealand’s most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. ‘I lead a life of quiet medication’, the poet claims, ‘longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.’ But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering an encounter in Belsize Park, in the thick of it or asking, ‘what next?’, Stead’s voice is intimate, amusing and always compelling.‘This Side of Silence resounds with intimations of mortality, compounded with reactions to a contemporary world of pandemic, climate change and war, but this collection is not in the least morose. Rather, the poetry is enlivening – concrete, particular, detailed and often playful. There is a wealth of sensory content, and each poem has its own satisfying shape, with easy idiomatic speech forming its special kind of rhythm. In this book a major modern poet continues to “live and sing”.’ - MacDonald P. Jackson‘Stead has his usual quick wit and steely eye for his world and, at 90, has the linguistic dexterity that many thousands of aspiring writers can only dream about.’ - Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-10-01
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 6 mm
  • Vikt: 175 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 114
  • Förlag: Arc Publications
  • ISBN: 9781911469452
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Christian Karlson Stead was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1932. Acclaimed both at home and internationally, he has published more that forty volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir and criticism.Stead's numerous prizes and honours include, most recently, the 2009 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, a 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Award for his Collected Poems, the Sunday Times EPG Private Bank Short Story Award and the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010. Stead received his country's highest award, the Order of New Zealand, in 2007.C. K. Stead has written 11 novels, the most recent of which - My Name was Judas - was published by Harvill-Secker in 2006, two books of short stories and six volumes of literary criticism. He has brought out two further collections of poetry in New Zealand since the publication of Dog by Arc in 2004 - The Red Tram (2004) and The Black River (February 2007).C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland for 20 years and is a Fellow the Royal Society of Literature. He was awarded a CBE in 1986.

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