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Sustained fullness of feeling, Damian Love
Tell Me My Name Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561070 Some Things to Place in a Coffin Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561056 It is often a revealing act. To translate, to imitate, to inhabit…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Damian Love, Issue 120, Summer 2017, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Moving the world along, Mark Houlahan
These Rough Notes Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864738318 Selected Poems Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737625 “In the future,” Bill Manhire predicts, while introducing his sweeping 2005 anthology of…
Tagged with: Anne Noble, Autumn 2013, Bill Manhire, Hannah Griffin, Issue 101, Mark Houlahan, Norman Meehan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Poem – Bill Manhire
A return after Milosz Stuff I believed in, gone; rules and other things – the stuff of song. I woke up feeling funny with no clothes on. Professors paraded in Greek, dreaming of oak and pine; the Leith wandered its…
Subtle conversation, Michael Sharkey
The Victims of Lightning Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 0780864736222 When this commission came, I’d recently re-read Manhire’s poetry from Malady to Lifted and his prose – the clever fables of The New Land, somehow redolent of Diderot’s…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 90, Michael Sharkey, Victoria University Press, Winter 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Alice-in-Wonderland worlds, David Clark
The Elegant Universe of Albert Einstein: The Collected Lectures of the Royal Society of New Zealand E=mc2 Series Broadcast on National Radio Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 0958262926 Are Angels OK? The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists Paul…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Awa Press, Bill Manhire, David Clark, Issue 77, Paul Callaghan, Royal Society of New Zealand, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Drawing in the air, Martin Edmond
The Desire of the Line: Ralph Hotere – Figurative Works Kriselle Baker Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403436 Pine Ralph Hotere and Bill Manhire Otakou Press, $800 (signed) $350 (unsigned), [no ISBN] In Dunedin in the mid-1990s, researching the Clairmont…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Manhire, Issue 74, Kriselle Baker, Martin Edmond, Otakou Press, Ralph Hotere, Winter 2006
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Gold dust in the goose bath, Harry Ricketts
The Goose Bath: Poems Janet Frame (ed Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire) Vintage, $39.99, ISBN 1869417658 How The Goose Bath acquired its title is a good story and a characteristic one. The bath itself, as Frame’s niece Pamela…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Denis Harold, Harry Ricketts, Issue 74, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Going live to death, Michael Hulse
Lifted Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 086473509X Bill Manhire’s marvellous new collection of poems opens, as Creation reportedly did, in an amorphous state, awaiting the shaping of the Author. “Without Form”, taking its title from Genesis 1.2, declares:…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 71, Michael Hulse, Spring 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bovver boys
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