Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Collected Poems Collected Poems 1951–2006 Contents Foreword Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 ‘Kay’ One

And could he now … Trapped Rabbit Elements Dissolution Night Watch in the Tararuas While down the fleeces of our sky … Letter to R. R. Dyer Three Imperatives in White Carpe Diem

Two

Letter to Frank Sargeson À la recherche du temps perdu Four Minute Miler Letter to Eve in London Four Harmonics of Regret Whether the Will is Free Last Poem in Australia

Three

Dialogue on a Northern Shore Winter Song Address to Two Cats Chorus Pictures in a Gallery Undersea

Four

Poem to Suppose the Bird Mind Your Fingers A Natural Grace Elegy Of Two who have Separated The Fijian Police Band Performs in Albert Park, Auckland

Crossing the Bar ONE You Have a Lot to Lose

You Have a Lot to Lose Night-Flight, San Francisco–New York A Small Registry of Births and Deaths Long Ago Crossing the Bar With a Pen-Knife Three Caesarian Poems Letter to the Enemy Lucifer Dictates his Reply Meeting of Cultures April Notebook Ode Herakles Like Birthday Poem This Time

TWO Putting it Straight

The Albert Park Fountain Putting it Straight in London A Reading at the Globe Theatre On the Publication of Frank Sargeson’s Memoirs of a Peon My Friend Julius New York To W. H. Auden on his 60th Birthday Lines Concluding a Lecture on Poetry and Criticism What Will it Be? Dawn Parade Myrtle A Charm

Quesada: Poems 1972–74

Cold Moon Under the Sun Northamptonshire Notes Quesada The Mirabeau Bridge Fifteen Letters from the Zebra Motel The Swan For a Children’s L.P.

Walking Westward

Caesar is still Caesar Breaking the Neck: an Autumn Sketchbook Twenty-two Sonnets These white flowers The Young Wife Walking Westward Uta

Geographies Scoria Yes T.S. The Clodian Songbook At Home

A poem called ‘The Weather in Tohunga Crescent’ A Warm Wind from the East Old Pale Gold A Coastline and Two Facts St Francis at Karekare This May be Your Captain Speaking

from Poems of a Decade The Plum Tree

Workshop Cinquains: What am I? Three Adjustments to the Atomic Clock Woken

Paris Between Part I

After the Wedding The Magic Bagwash As if Nothing had Happened Two Dates for the Auckland Calendar Deconstructing the Rainbow Warrior Between Paris: the End of a Story The Poetry Room Going to Heaven Goodbye

Part II

From the Clodian Songbook 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Part III

Kin of Place The Radiant Way

Voices 1820 The Missionary 18 October 1836 The Catechist 1840 The Treaty

5 February The Girl 5 February The Printer 6 February The Printer 8 February The Settler 8 February The Chief 15 April The Governor 21 May The Governor

1840 The Dream 1848 The Radical 1849 The Settler 1860 The Pakeha-Maori 1860 The Soldier 1861 The Boy 1864 The Warrior 1869 The War 1875 The Girl 24 January 1884 The Visit 1889 The Gentleman 1889 The Empire 1908 The Actress August 1915 The Commanding Officer 1917 The Mother Cornwall 1918 The Expatriates 1925 The District Nurse 1929 The Immigrant Artist 1932 The Student 1939–45 The War 1945 The Explanation 1945 The Anniversary 1947 The Orchestra 1951 The Wharfie Christmas 1953 The Queen Rome 1960 The Athlete 1971 The Revolution 31 August 1974 The Private Secretary 25 July 1981 The Clergyman 10 July 1985 The Secret Agent 1990 At the Grave of Governor Hobson from Straw into Gold: Poems New and Selected America Catullus Again Dreaming Real Personae A Discursive Poem about Poetry & Thought

Tübingen Faber & Faber Treasure Island Auckland Last Poem

The Right Thing

The Right Thing Janet Frame’s House Good Morning Ars Poetica Les Enfants du Paradis Ode to a Nightingale Mercredi-Gras John Cage at Harvard, 1988 Xanadu Reservation Cartoons September, Périgord Likenesses Running in Oxford The Keys of the Kingdom Loyalty and Booze Exit Suffenia the Poet Ravidus the Bookman Easter 1916 Shelley The Other Place Horace III, 30 Revisiting Bristol Fame and Companion The Sparrow The Universe Lessons in Modern History (i) Lessons in Modern History (ii) Absence Zagreb Hollywood Even Newer English Bible Play it Again Nine Nines Encounters Crete Stories H/oration

Dog King’s Lynn and the Pacific

The Music Master The Captain’s Servant In Principio … Otaheiti Bread etc. Tonga New Zealand The Hand Ice Dog Navigation The Puzzle Postscript

Creation etc.

Psalm Applause Washington His Round Gotland Midsummer Cat/ullus Creation etc. Vincent Poetry and Philosophy Wellington A U C K L A N D Dunedin To Karl Miller at 70 Shapely Fact Number Poem Beauty Bald Caesarion On Turning Seventy Of Irony Even Newer English Bible (2) Lost Dog Maui Waitangi, 2002 Catullus 65

At Wagner’s Tomb The Red Tram One

Auckland The Season, Tohunga Crescent Legs: an Acknowledgement The Tree: a Story A Cow is … History: the Horse The Red Tram Speaking Plain You

Two

That fear makes killers True Tales from Ovid The Advance of English – Lang and Lit Sweet and Sour Sentry Duty Africa: an Autobiography America

Three

Horae Secularae The Masterwork Karekare Without Takapuna Ode to the Eight Immortals Brit Lits My Fellow Writers at Eaglereach Calgary Letter from the Mountains Rapallo: an Economy On Fame

Four

Haiku Love etc. Stone Figure

The Black River One

The Art of Poetry (i) Auckland Oxford Three Poems from the Languedoc Four Poems Into Extra Time Elegy The Rower S//crapbook Agent Arc-en-Ciel The Art of Poetry (ii) Remembering Anactoria Theology Black River Blues Kentucky, 1853 Free Will Embarrassment La Sainte Famille History My Sister and M.S. Versions of Two Poems by Victor Hugo My Father (a fantasy) C.K. The Art of Poetry (iii)

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S – T – R – O – K – E

Some Early Uncollected Poems

Elegy Feuilles d’automne Kaiwaka Sonnet for a New Zealand Soldier Killed in Korea That Particular Morning Logging, Mangawhai Sonnet Man Alone ‘Like to a vagabond flag …’ Shelley looks to the future Noviciate Sonnet The Shadow Lord Gannet, Mrs Shag Homage to Ancestors Afternoon with Piano Choruses Afternoon with violin England Curaçao Eden A New National Anthem Invocation

Notes Index of First Lines Index of Poems By the Same Author: Copyright

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