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Paperback / softback

Main Details

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Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bill Manhire
SeriesVUP Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:80
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780864735096
ClassificationsDewey:821.2
Audience
General
Edition 2nd New edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint Victoria University Press
Publication Date 9 August 2018
Publication Country New Zealand

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; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance - and once again to curiosity.

Author Biography

Bill Manhire is director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington and the author of 121 New Zealand Poems, Doubtful Sounds, and Under the Influence.

Reviews

"A poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience." Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate (2001 2003)"