C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  I'm recording today in Auckland, New Zealand and my guest is a giant of New Zealand letters,

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  poet, novelist, critic, academic and provocateur.

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  Over more than six decades he's shaped literary conversation both at home and abroad,

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  often caught in controversy but never without intellect and elegance.

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  From his dystopian visions and poetic mastery to his critical dissections of modernism and national identity,

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  he's left an indelible mark.

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  CK Stead joins me now.

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  Karl, welcome.

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  Thank you very much.

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  Let's start right at the beginning.

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  You were born in Auckland in 1932.

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  What kind of world did you grow up in and when did the written word first take hold of you?

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  The written word took hold when I was about 12 or 13 or so with Keats Ode to a Nightingale I think and Rupert Brooke and I began to write poetry and it's come and gone

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  since but I've never been many years without writing poems.

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  But then from there I expanded to do fiction and short stories and novels and non-fiction

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  because I was an academic so there were plenty of things.

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  I mean literary journalism.

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  I did a lot of that.

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  Wrote for the LRB for quite a while.

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