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The wit, the cook and the poet, Chris Else
On Writing Hit Songs Simon Morris Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237573 Biography of a Local Palate David Burton Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237581 Under the Influence Bill Manhire Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237565 Reviewing three books at…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Chris Else, David Burton, Four Winds Press, Issue 62, Simon Morris, Winter 2003
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Famous last words, Bill Manhire
They knew how to die in the old Icelandic sagas. In Grettir’s Saga a man called Atli Asmundarson gets a spear through the stomach. He looks down in surprise, and then – in the middle of a 10th-century wilderness…
Stone upon stone, David Eggleton
Collected Poems 1967-1999 Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, ISBN 086473411 (paperback), $34.95 ISBN 0864734212 (hardback) $49.95 In this Collected Poems, the private universe of Bill Manhire is made readily available to his ever-increasing audience. But it may take years and…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, David Eggleton, December 2001, Issue 51, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“The muddled dailiness of things”, Stuart Murray
Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 86473 370 4 The Canadian poet Douglas Barbour once wrote that Bill Manhire’s poetry displays a “duplicitous unwillingness to guarantee anything”, a feature he felt to be…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 43, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature
Posted in Essays, Literature
How to keep your secret, Ken Arvidson
What to call your child Bill Manhire Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1 86962 044 5 This attractive volume marks the end of Bill Manhire’s two-year term as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate. Because he has lived the role out so…
Of ice-blinks, blackbirds and ikebana, John Allison
Homelight Nigel Brown, Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman Pemmican Press, $12.00 ISBN 0 47305149 4 13 Ways Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47304881 7 Natsukashii Ingrid Horrocks Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47305139 7 Black South Chris Orsman Pemmican…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Harry Ricketts, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 34, John Allison, Nigel Brown, Pemmican Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“Aha – data reduction!” James Brown
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