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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.