Author: Terry Sturm
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 177558870X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 929
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Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
Author: Terry Sturm
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775588653
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
Author: Allen Curnow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869401627
Category : New Zealand poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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This is a collection of poems by Allen Curnow, written between the years 1941-1997. The poems include "Continuum."
Author: Allen Curnow
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869405005
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Early Days Yet is a major publication in which the greatest of all New Zealand poets presents twelve previously uncollected poems that are strong, rich and brilliant. These poems lead off into the past and introduce readers to the poems published since 1970, in addition to a selection from the 40s, 50s and 60s. Vivid childhood memories predominate in the new poems but sharp contemporary concerns, satiric or tragic, are always present. Early Days Yet is an astounding and awe-inspiring volume with depths that no reader can readily exhaust or fully grasp. The poems collected in Early Days Yet won the New Zealand Book Award multiple times as well as the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Author: Allen Curnow
Publisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Allen Curnow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Possessing a unity of mood and purpose, this collection of poems are about the poet's world, human fate, life and death. The settings are unmistakable a beach at Karekare or in Sicily, an embassy party in Washington, a windy autumn in Auckland or a wet summer in Paris.
Author: Lawrence Jones
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.
Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316546195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature, surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
Author: Allen Curnow
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869405013
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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Remarkable for the astonishing mastery of technique, voice and tone, the poems in The Bells of St Babel's display Allen Curnow's wonderful ear for the vernacular and his unerring sense of the absurdity of modish attitudes.
Author: C. K. Stead
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1776710576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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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, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three. It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries, and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books—of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors. From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead's You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand's intellectual and cultural history.
