C.K. Stead

C.K. STEAD has published eight novels, two collections of short stories, twelve collections of poetry, and four of literary criticism. He has edited a number of anthologies and has been a regular reviewer for the London Review of Books, in which many of these essays first appeared. He has received a number of literary awards, the CBE in 1984 for services to New Zealand literature, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. He was professor of English at Auckland University for twenty years before leaving in 1986 to write full-time. His best-known work of literary criticism is The New Poetic, which sold over 100,000 copies in Britain and the US.