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Table talk

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  • Short stories (LCGFT)
  • Short stories, New Zealand (LOCAL)
  • Book reviews (LCGFT)
  • Comptes rendus de livres (RVMGF)
  • Nouvelles (RVMGF)
  • short stories (AAT)

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"Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic, C.K. Stead has made his mark on all these disciplines. While he has already written or edited over fifty books, there is no sitting on his laurels for this nonagenarian. Instead, he wore them as New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015-2017 and has continued to celebrate poetry and poets through blogs, reviews and essays. He has also returned to his exploration of the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, and to writing and revisiting short fiction as well as an 'approximation' of a play first written in French by Racine. Combining this eclectic material into one fascinating collection, this prize-winning wordsmith continues to provoke, delight and stimulate."--Publisher description.

Table of Contents

Part one: lit crit, laureate blocs, interviews and commentaries : 1. The Laureate Looks Back : Front an Interview with Mark Broatch, 2019 -- The Poetry of Belief and Poetry of Fact -- The Here and the There and Words that Give you a Life -- At Home in my Head with Keats and Coleridge -- Nine Sonnets -- The Nicer Muldoon -- Deaths and Entrances -- The Sinclair Cohort -- The 1922 Brigade -- Answering Questions for the Scottish Poetry Library -- Replies to Five Questions from Guy Somerset -- Address to the University of Auckland Faculty of Arts Graduation Ceremony -- Time to Get Serious -- Launches, Reviews, Readings -- 2. More about Mansfield: The Mansfield -- Morrell Correspondence -- Katherine Mansfield and 'Bertie' Russell -- Difficulties with the Dead -- The Case of Years -- The Young Katherine Mansfield -- Mansfield and Modernism -- Katherine Mansfield and France and the French -- Katherine Mansfield and J.W.N. Sullivan -- Mansfield -- the Poet? -- All Sorts of Lives by Claire Harman -- Katherine Mansfield's Europe by Redmer Yska -- 3. Recent Reviews and Reflections : Colin McCahon, 1 Peter 2, The Calling of a Christian -- Louise Henderson, a personal view -- Night Horse, poems by Elizabeth Smither -- Dan Davin: The Gorse Blooms Pale and The General and the Nightingale -- The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson -- Streets and Mountains' by Gregory O'Brien -- Shadbolt, Heroic or Absurd? -- James Courage Diaries -- The Great Modernist Poem -- Mike Doyle 1928-2016 -- A Month at the Back of my Brain: A third memoir by Kevin Ireland -- Citrus of Dreams -- Allen Present and Absent -- Borges and Me -- Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond -- Barry -- James K. Baxter, The Selected Poems, edited by John Weir -- Part two: fictions new and/or revised : Vladimir -- Ebony -- Sex in America -- The Philosopher's Kiss -- A New Zealand Elegy -- A Family Man -- The Kingfisher -- A Short History of New Zealand -- Part three: Jean Racine's Andromaque: an approximation : A Note by Way of Explanation -- Andromache.

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:23:17.920605+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24128346

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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