C.K. Stead is one of New Zealand’s foremost literary figures and a member of the Order of New Zealand. He is a distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland.

C.K. Stead

Hospitality

C.K. Stead·23rd July 2016

'My mordant friend told me the story of / the woman he loved in youth in Oxford /who had, he said, "a hospitable cunt".'

Number 32 | New Zealand Verse

Stiff

C.K. Stead·23rd July 2016

'One hundred years ago young Ezra writes / from Kensington to Miss Alice Kenny'

Number 32 | New Zealand Verse

Amsterdam

C.K. Stead·23rd July 2016

'Tucked among books, look, a long-ago letter, / long ago lost, thanks me for poems – for one / especially in which she’s named.'

Number 32 | New Zealand Verse

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Hospitality

Stiff

Amsterdam

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