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Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
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 years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and ‘Erebus Voices’, written to be read by Si ...Show more
Some Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of mem ...Show more
Tell Me My Name by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Manhire riddles Norman Meehan music Hannah Griffin song Peter Peryer photographs Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin. This hardback book includes the full texts and eight photographs by celebrated artis ...Show more
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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 is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects the stories from The New Land : A Picture Book (1990) and the stories added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own-adventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Un ...Show more
These Rough Notes by Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
‘Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale . . .’ Scott’s journal, 29 March 1912 Drawing its title from one of the last pages of ...Show more
Victims of Lightning by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
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 a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers. First published March ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
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