You have a lot to lose : a memoir 1956-1986 /
"New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia,...
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Auckland University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Note by way of introduction
- Part 1. Getting there: Booloominbah and beyond
- Woodbines with Lionel Knight
- London and Dr Johnson's stone
- In and out of Auckland
- Part 2. Poetry & politics, children & Vietnam
- Allez Mansfield! Allez Menton!
- Critic, edior, poet...
- Wellington, Sydney, and the end of the war
- UCL, ASD & Menton again
- The fellowship and a taste of freedom
- Part 3. Edging towards the exit: 1981
- and farewell Frank
- Cross-eyed with the effort of it
- All visitors aboard, Allen Curnow and mermaids
- Sligo, gateway to the world.