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121 New Zealand Poems by 121 New Zealand Poets by Bill Manhire (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Mento ...Show more
Are Angels OK - The parallel universes of New Zealand writers and scientists by Paul Callaghan (ed.); Bill Manhire (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Are Angels OK?ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàasked Bill the poet.Angels are just fine,ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàsaid Paul the physicist.And thus began an extraordinary blind date between New Zealand writers and physicists.In this remarkable book, ten leading New ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and ‘Erebus Voices’, written to be read by Si ...Show more
Lifted by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. 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; ...Show more
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and i ...Show more
Some Other Country : New Zealand's Best Short Stories (4th edition, September 2008)) by Bill Manhire & Marion McLeod (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
First published in 1984, Some Other Country quickly became established as New Zealand’s essential single-volume anthology of short stories, and has since been enjoyed by many thousands of visitors, students and readers of all kinds. Now this fourth edition adds four new writers, bringing the collection ...Show more
Some Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of mem ...Show more
Tell Me My Name by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Manhire riddles Norman Meehan music Hannah Griffin song Peter Peryer photographs Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin. This hardback book includes the full texts and eight photographs by celebrated artis ...Show more
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects the stories from The New Land : A Picture Book (1990) and the stories added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own-adventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Un ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
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