Lifted
Published on 25. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
79 pages
978-1-85754-894-5 (ISBN)
Description
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; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance - and once again to curiosity. Many of the poems were written while Bill Manhire was the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, France. "Lifted" is a book by a poet writing at the height of his powers.
Reviews / Votes
'Manhire is in brilliant form in this death-haunted but scintillating collection.' Peter Simpson, New Zealand Herald 'Turning the pages of 'Lifted', no reader can fail to be surprised and delighted by the variety of voices and tones... Manhire shows not only his mature formal skills but his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. He is a poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience. ...Manhire's poems make us feel as if we are really there.' - Billy Collins, Dominion Post (Book of the week).More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 9 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 215 mm
Weight
115 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85754-894-5 (9781857548945)
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Person
BILL MANHIRE was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He heads the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme. He has published many books of poetry, and a number of volumes of fiction. In June 2005 he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.