Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
An accessible gathering of work by New Zealands foremost poet.
'Manhire can be a beautifully elemental poet.. whose bright, innocent quality of perception (what he himself has called "whimsy") has had a liberating effect on New Zealand poetry.' -- Jeremy Noel-Tod, Culture, The Sunday Times 'Turning the pages of Lifted, no reader can fail to be surprised and delighted by the variety of voices and tones... Manhire shows his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. His poems make us feel as if we are really there.' - Billy Collins
Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He headed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, establishing and directing the university's prestigious creative writing programme.His volume of short fiction, South Pacific, was published by Carcanet in 1994. His poetry collections include Lifted (2007), and his Collected Poems (2001) and Selected Poems (2014). In 2018, he was made one of the Arts Foundation Icon Artists, an award given to only 20 living artists for their lifetime achievement and contribution to the arts in NZ.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847772473 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847772471 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Bill Manhire |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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