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; Γ 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.;C.K. Stead is New Zealand's most distinguished living poet. Since publishing his first poems in periodicals like Landfall in the early 1950s, he has experimented with many forms and modes? from open form, free verse, journal composition, quotation and found text to personal lyric, translation and imitation? while always bringing a strong personality, deft craftsmanship and a background of realism to bear on his poetry. This Collected Poems includes the work of his fourteen volumes of poetry, from his first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition