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Boxing the compass, David Eggleton
How Things Are Adrienne Jansen, Harry Ricketts, J C Sturm and Meg Campbell Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brasell Press, $21.95 ISBN 0 958351341 four Damien Wilkins, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins Published by the authors, no price given,…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Bill Manhire, Damien Wilkins, Daphne Brasell Press, David Eggleton, Elizabeth Knox, Emily Perkins, Harry Ricketts, Issue 24, J C Sturm, Meg Campbell, Whitireia Publishing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
You cannot forget it, Tom Beard
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982 Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 3003 My Sunshine Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $19.95 ISBN 086473 2953 Touching on song The iconography of song has always been important in Manhire’s poetry and it…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 23, Spring 1996, Tom Beard, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Who criticises the critics?, Lauris Edmond
Whole Men Kai Jensen Auckland University Press 1996 $34.95 ISBN 186940145x A R D Fairburn Selected Poems Mac Jackson (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 2937 Denis Glover Selected Poems Bill Manhire (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473…
Tagged with: A R D Fairburn, Auckland University Press, Bill Manhire, Denis Glover, Issue 23, Kai Jensen, Lauris Edmond, Mac Jackson, Spring 1996, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Poem — Bill Manhire
Some screens Japanese Pavillion Los Angeles County Museum Palace scene in downtown LA Palace scene in a snowy landscape, spring cherry, autumn maple. We stand for a while and watch the snow: the bridge at Uji crossing from spring…
A variety of voices, Mark Williams
100 New Zealand Poems Bill Manhire (ed), Godwit, $29.95 Some years ago I edited a small anthology of New Zealand poetry. It was a truly hellish experience. Some poets wanted to know how much space had been given to rivals,…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Godwit, Issue 11, Mark Williams, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Spareness and generosity, Bill Sewell
Milky Way Bar Bill Manhire, Victoria University Press, 1991, $16.95 Short Back and Sideways: Poems and Prose Hone Tuwhare, Godwit, 1992, $19.95 It would be hard to imagine two poets as different as Bill Manhire and Hone Tuwhare. Both are…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 6, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review