Selected Poems
Published on 30. January 2014
160 pages
978-1-84777-519-1 (ISBN)
Description
Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet, has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his landscapes (including Antarctica) and his language. He was New Zealand's first Poet Laureate and is one of its most popular and entertaining writers. This book traces his evolution over more than four decades, from The Elaboration (1972) through to The Victims of Lightning (2010) and new poems. It is the story of a love affair with the planet: 'The world is a constant amazement, / always on the move'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-519-1 (9781847775191)
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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.
Content
from The Elaboration
Love Poem Poem The Elaboration The Spell The Prayer The Voyage Pavilion
from How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic
The Incision The Poetry Reading Ornaments Last Sonnet Summer It Is Nearly Summer On Originality The Proposition The Cinema The Song How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic Some Epithets The Trees Contemplation of the Heavens from Good LooksA Song About the Moon What It Means to be Naked Wingatui The SelenologistWulf Loss of the Forest Wellington Party Going The Voyeur: An Imitation The Caravan Declining the Naked Horse Red Horse Night Windows Carey's Bay Children Last Things An Outline
from Zoetropes
A Scottish Bride Water, a Stopping Place Legacies She Says The Distance Between Bodies Girl Reading Zoetropes
from Milky Way Bar
Out West Magasin Jalopy: the End of Love Our Father Milky Way Bar Masturbating My Lost Youth Miscarriage Breaking the Habit Hirohito Brazil Phar Lap
from My Sunshine
Remarkables from Isabella Notes My Sunshine Colloquial Europe Ain Folks The English Teacher Moonlight
from What to Call your Child
Picnic at Woodhaugh What to Call Your Child A Final Secret Visiting Mr Shackleton Antarctic Stone The Next Thousand
from Lifted
Without Form The God's Journey Song: AlzonAcross Brooklyn The Ladder OpoutereStill Life with Wind in the Trees An Inspector Calls Encouragement Dogs Erebus VoicesHotel Emergencies Death of a Poet Kevin
from The Victims of Lightning
The Cave The Victims of Lightning Velvet Song with a Chorus 1950s Frolic Quebec Captain Scott Visiting Europe Toast Pussy The Lid Slides Back The Wrong Crowd Peter Pan My Childhood in Ireland The Sick Son The Oral Tradition The Ruin
New Poems
The SchoolbusThe Question Poem Old Man Puzzled by His New Pyjamas
Index of Titles Index of First Lines
Love Poem Poem The Elaboration The Spell The Prayer The Voyage Pavilion
from How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic
The Incision The Poetry Reading Ornaments Last Sonnet Summer It Is Nearly Summer On Originality The Proposition The Cinema The Song How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic Some Epithets The Trees Contemplation of the Heavens from Good LooksA Song About the Moon What It Means to be Naked Wingatui The SelenologistWulf Loss of the Forest Wellington Party Going The Voyeur: An Imitation The Caravan Declining the Naked Horse Red Horse Night Windows Carey's Bay Children Last Things An Outline
from Zoetropes
A Scottish Bride Water, a Stopping Place Legacies She Says The Distance Between Bodies Girl Reading Zoetropes
from Milky Way Bar
Out West Magasin Jalopy: the End of Love Our Father Milky Way Bar Masturbating My Lost Youth Miscarriage Breaking the Habit Hirohito Brazil Phar Lap
from My Sunshine
Remarkables from Isabella Notes My Sunshine Colloquial Europe Ain Folks The English Teacher Moonlight
from What to Call your Child
Picnic at Woodhaugh What to Call Your Child A Final Secret Visiting Mr Shackleton Antarctic Stone The Next Thousand
from Lifted
Without Form The God's Journey Song: AlzonAcross Brooklyn The Ladder OpoutereStill Life with Wind in the Trees An Inspector Calls Encouragement Dogs Erebus VoicesHotel Emergencies Death of a Poet Kevin
from The Victims of Lightning
The Cave The Victims of Lightning Velvet Song with a Chorus 1950s Frolic Quebec Captain Scott Visiting Europe Toast Pussy The Lid Slides Back The Wrong Crowd Peter Pan My Childhood in Ireland The Sick Son The Oral Tradition The Ruin
New Poems
The SchoolbusThe Question Poem Old Man Puzzled by His New Pyjamas
Index of Titles Index of First Lines
