Shelf Life: Reviews, Replies And Reminiscences by C. K. Stead

The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. 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 2016 Auckland University Press Paperback is in very good condition. Owner's Name inside.

ISBN: 9781869408497 SKU: 1583126 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1583126
Location: NZ NF