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Shelf Life
Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

452 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25

Formats: Mobipocket, PDF, EPUB, Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $44.99 (US $44.99) (CA $53.99)

Publication Date: November 2016

ISBN 9781869408497

Rights: US, CA, UK, EUR, ASIA & ZA

Auckland University Press (Nov 2016)

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Overview

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. 

Author Biography

C. K. Stead was born in Auckland in 1932. From the late 1950s, he began to earn an international reputation as a poet and literary critic and, later, as a novelist. He has published more than 40 books and received numerous prizes and honours recognizing his contribution to literature, including in 2009 the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.