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Lifted by Bill Manhire
19.99 NZD
24.95 (19% off)
Category: NZ 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 by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: 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
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: 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 Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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: NZ 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 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
Wow by Bill Manhire
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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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