Table Talk: Opinions, stories, and a play

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Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic, C.K. Stead has made his mark on all these disciplines. While he has already written or edited over fifty books, there is no sitting on his laurels for this nonagenarian. Instead, he wore them as New Zealand Poet Laureate from 20152017 and has continued to celebrate poetry and poets through blogs, reviews and essays. He has also returned to his exploration of the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, and to writing and revisiting short fiction as well as an approximation of a play first written in French by Racine. Combining this eclectic material into one fascinating collection, this prize-winning wordsmith continues to provoke, delight and stimulate.

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"...leaves the reader astonished at the energy, the determination, the intellectual breadth and depth of the achievement of this, the most distinguished man-of-letters in New Zealand working among us today." Rob Kidd, Otago Daily Times. Longlisted in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.

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C.K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 20152017, has won the Prime Ministers Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand. He has just been Longlisted in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.