Shelf Life

Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences

Biography & Memoir, Literary
Cover of the book Shelf Life by Karl Stead, Auckland University Press
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Author: Karl Stead ISBN: 9781775588580
Publisher: Auckland University Press Publication: June 20, 2016
Imprint: Auckland University Press Language: English
Author: Karl Stead
ISBN: 9781775588580
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Publication: June 20, 2016
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Language: English

Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. In this latest collection, a sequel to the successful Answering to the Language, The Writer at Work, and Book Self, Stead takes the reader through nine essays in ‘the Mansfield file', collects works of criticism and review in ‘book talk', writes in the ‘first person' about everything from David Bain to Parnell, and finally offers some recent reflections on poetic laurels from his time as New Zealand poet laureate. Throughout, Stead is vintage Stead: clear, direct, intelligent, decisive, personal. This is a sequel to the successful Answering to the Language, The Writer at Work, and Book Self. It includes every kind of literary journalism, including politics, education, and reflections on language and some of Stead's laureate blogs which sit between criticism and autobiography. These are further perspectives on New Zealand's literature and culture from the country's leading critic.

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Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. In this latest collection, a sequel to the successful Answering to the Language, The Writer at Work, and Book Self, Stead takes the reader through nine essays in ‘the Mansfield file', collects works of criticism and review in ‘book talk', writes in the ‘first person' about everything from David Bain to Parnell, and finally offers some recent reflections on poetic laurels from his time as New Zealand poet laureate. Throughout, Stead is vintage Stead: clear, direct, intelligent, decisive, personal. This is a sequel to the successful Answering to the Language, The Writer at Work, and Book Self. It includes every kind of literary journalism, including politics, education, and reflections on language and some of Stead's laureate blogs which sit between criticism and autobiography. These are further perspectives on New Zealand's literature and culture from the country's leading critic.

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