The yellow buoy : poems 2007-2012 / C.K. Stead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932-.

Stead, C. K.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

C. K. Stead has always swum through literature, cultures, surroundings both physical and social, with a deft stroke. Completed in his eightieth year, The Yellow Buoy sees the poet firmly attached to his memories, attuned to his craft and attentive to his world. The book is divided into three parts: ?The Yellow Buoy', ?The Silence' and ?The Green Enclave'. Here, in classic vein, Catullus returns to receive the ONZ, write to friends and ?read the world'. Various other literary fellows appear in person, dream or conversation ? Allen Curnow and Hugh Kawharu, Frank Sargeson and Barry Humphries

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; ONE THE YELLOW BUOY; Ego 1; Ego 2; Names; Four kinds of love; Three to the left; Catullus 68; Catullus receives the ONZ; Ischaemia; CROATIA; Speaking in bronze; Making it; In Zadar; The stones of Zadar; Field notes; In that moment . . .; When I touched your wrist; Last poem; A letter to Jadranka Pintari; Sextet; A/go; COLOMBIA; Love is a lunatic city; Caracoles gigantes; Last night I dreamed . . .; The Prelude; South-West of Eden; Katherine Mansfield; Waving goodbye; TWO THE SILENCE; LIGURIA; Before . . .; Midday; Buonanotte; A memory of Valéry Larbaud; Sonnet; Languages

Sonnet The eel; Public notice; Sonnet; At the Villa dei Pini; Asterisk; And then . . .; A Ligurian story; Nell'ora cara agli dei . . .; Four Versions of 'Motets' by Eugenio Montale; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Waltz by Diabelli; Barry; Back then (but briefly); VENEZUELA; Talking Book; The Return; La Casa; 'Let us build the nation well . . .'; Greeneland; Nine Ways of Looking at a Fantail; The Maecenas of Lynn; Double Sonnet: an owl is seen on Ascension Day, 2009; Three Poems by Philippe Jaccottet; The Crash; The Afterlife; Sixes and Sevens; The Gift; The Silence; THREE THE GREEN ENCLAVE

The Green Enclave Why poetry?; At Bogliasco; Larkin; The Dream; Ave atque vale; Malice; The Russian; Of course; Look who's talking; Saluti; Frank; 'Grammaticus'; 'Arletty'; End of story; Lipitor: the risk; To a friend . . .; Where am I / Who am I?; Has been; The Old; The Death of Odysseus; The New Husband; Curno; Syllabics for Roger Morton; The Angel; Names and Places Poem; Leaving Karekare; Further acknowledgement . . .; Notes

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 2, 2014).

ISBN:

1-86940-775-X

1-77558-673-1

OCLC:

863823543