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Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
Lifted by Bill Manhire
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classics
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and i ...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
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 Moderately Hungry Maggot by Bill Manhire
18.00 NZD
Category: Humour
The escapades of The Very Hungry Caterpillar have been delighting children and their parents for many generations. Is nothing SACRED? Well, it seems no, not to Bill Manhire and Mark Harfield. This is definitely no children's book, they're so much more discerning, but silly adults will fall for it. ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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
These Rough Notes by Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
‘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
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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