All Visitors Ashore
by C. K. Stead
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Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past. As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of Auckland, where the artist Melior Farbro grew his show more vegetables and let Cecilia Skyways follow her own form of Zen Buddhism in his garden hut. Where Curl Skidmore, his brilliant young head full of novels waiting to be unravelled, could dream of God, Fame, Nirvana, Great Love, or maybe just sex. Where not even the harbourfront strike of 1951 could convince them that life wasn't about poetry and painting and potential. show lessTags
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C. K. Stead is a critic, editor, poet, novelist, and educator from New Zealand. He was a professor of English at Auckland University. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism. He received a New Zealand Book Award in Poetry in 1976 for Quesada and a New Zealand Book Award in Fiction for The show more Singing Whakapapa in 1995. He is the only person to have won the New Zealand Book Award for both poetry and fiction. He received a third place Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1972 for Smith's Dream and a Montana Prize in 2009 for Collected Poems 1951-2006. He also received the Jessie Mackay award, the King's Lynn Poetry prize, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Sarah Broom prize. The National Library of New Zealand named C. K. Stead the 2015-2017 New Zealand Poet Laureate. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Curl Skidmore
- Dedication
- To Whom it May Concern
- First words
- Let's begin with the tea towel - its hanging overa string and damp so the string curves downward under the sink bench and Melior Farbro, the old master, who is not so old, a little over fifty like the century itself and in go... (show all)od shape despite his limp and his endless complaints about corns, piles tinea, peptic ulcers, migraine, bends down to dry his fingers on its brown cheeks.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You are a lady, Aorewa, who knows when to call it a day, and if I write it is only to assure you Curl Skidmore waved the red towel.
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