Say I do this : poems 2018-2022 / C.K. Stead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country'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. Swimming in the dark I call on memory - Rangitoto ahead, and those lights of Kohi behind making a cosy half-circle. Overhead the moon's a waka sailing west to escape first light that will put it out. I'm reaching blind fingers for the yellow buoy and touch it only as the sun does dimly through a bank of cloud."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine-generated: Home. To be continued, perhaps

Tohunga Crescent

Ode to Autumn

On a day late summer in a poem like wine

Pastoral: Kaiwaka, 1941

Say I do this

Dombey & Son g To 'Amnesia, Muse of Deletions'

Mary

The corner

Hobson Bay i

Waking in a Time of Trouble t

Haiku: Audiology i

Haiku

Just Checking

This side of silence

Birthday Tercets for Kay

Anonymity and Silence

Something to tell

After surgery

To any gardener with a terminal prognosis

Poem in October

Away. What Next?

The Death of Orpheus

Proses

Movie review: The Misfits

'At the Bay'

David Mitchell in Menton

COte d'Azur

Sonnet in a time of Lockdown

October 16, 1817, Angostura, 5 p.m.

The Dream of Carlos Amigo

Sonnet: Paula Rego and an inn

The thousand peaceful towns

Fin

Impromptu: Afghanistan

Psalms of Judas, 1

Psalms of Judas, 2

Psalms of Judas, 3

Psalms of Judas, 4

The challenge

National Anthems

...and Friends. Poem for Kevin

Thelma

o For Jane Massey

For Fleur Adcock

MacSpaunday

To John Berryman

13-syllable tercets on behalf of Goats

Murnane Country

A Sonnet ending on a note of uncertainty

Keri Hulme

The Bone People

Smalls

Crossing the Bar

A sonnet for Peter Wells

Iris

Creative Writing Class: Syllabics

An encounter in Belsize Park Gardens

Just like that

Sam

Lines for a Granddaughter

Solidarity

Games at 14 Esmond Road, 1955 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Rudolf

E = mc²

The Money

Ian

And last

Notes.

ISBN:

9781776710997

1776710991

OCLC:

1360278654