Ko Christian Karlson Stead (1932-) he kaituhi nō Aotearoa.
- Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954-62 (1964)
- The New Poetic (1964)
- Smith's Dream (1971)
- Crossing the Bar (1972)
- Quesada: Poems 1972-74 (1975)
- Walking Westward (1979)
- Five for the Symbol (1981)
- Geographies (1982)
- In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
- Paris: A poem (1984)
- Poems of a Decade (1983)
- All Visitors Ashore (1984)
- The Death of the Body (1986)
- Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
- Between (1988)
- Sister Hollywood (1989)
- Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
- Voices (1990)
- The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
- The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
- Villa Vittoria (1997)
- Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
- The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
- Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
- The Right Thing (2000)
- The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
- The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
- Dog (2002)
- Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
- Mansfield: a novel (2004)
- My Name Was Judas (2006)
- The Black River (2007)
- Ischaemia (winning poem of the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine)