Man Missing: Towards a Biography of Charles Brasch

Abstract

Having had the good fortune to gain one of the 1991 PEN-Stout Fellowships, I was recently given an opportunity which is rare enough in the lifetime of any writer or researcher, let alone one in New Zealand-time to pursue a cherished literary ambition, and financial support to help realize this. While writing a thesis on the poetry of Charles Brasch a couple of years ago, perhaps inevitably I turned for a starting point to biographical fact. The attempt to seek in 'real life' detail some insight on the written word gradually led to a long-term plan to write some comprehensive biographical study of this poet and literary editor.