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100 New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire (ed.)
29.95 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
100 New Zealand Poems is a journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of New Zealand - from the country's earliest poems to work by new poets of the 1990s. 100 New Zealand Poems is an ideal source book for students of New Zealand literature of all ages but will also be a delightful read for ...Show more
121 New Zealand Poems by 121 New Zealand Poets by Bill Manhire (ed.)
29.99 NZD
Category: 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.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Science | 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 - Collected Poems by Bill Manhire
34.95 NZD
38.00 (8% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Bill Manhire's Collected Poems brings together thirty years of work from the outstanding poet of his generation.
Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
35.00 NZD
Category: 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
24.95 NZD
Category: 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: 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 by Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire
24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Collection of stories from the heart of New Zealand literature. Various authors
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: 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: 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: 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