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Manhire Bill
THE STORIES OF BILL MANHIRE collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In…
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Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson-this…
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Bill Manhire’s new collection, his first UK publication since Selected Poems, begins with the song of an extinct bird and journeys on into troubling futures.
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First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story.
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the…
A collection of poems asking what the word ‘spirit’ means for those who do not believe in an afterlife. The central poem, ‘Kevin’, suggests that in the absence of God…
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With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle duality, the untimely death of Schrodinger’s cat, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, dark energy, and the end of the universe, this…
Bill Manhire’s first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its…
Bill Manhire riddles; Norman Meehan music; Hannah Griffin song; Peter Peryer photographs Dimensions: 210 x 157 mm, 32 pages Poetry + photographs + music CD Cover: Peter Peryer, Untitled, 2016
Thirty years of writing by New Zealander, Bill Manhire is brought together, encompassing his early love poems, Anglo-Saxon England and recent reflections on Antarctica.
Bill Manhire’s first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even…
This generous selection of Bill Manhire’s poems moves from playful early pieces like On Originality and How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic to major works of recent…
