Lyrical Ballads
$23.40
- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2026
Summary
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valery’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that - suddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird.
This is a many-peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923021 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923022 |
| Author: | Bill Manhire |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 138mm |
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About The Author
Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire CNZM’s most recent books include Wow (2020), Some Things to Place in a Coffin (2017), Tell Me My Name (with Hannah Griffin and Norman Meehan, 2017) and The Stories of Bill Manhire (2015). He has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry five times, and was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate. He founded and directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. He has edited major anthologies of New Zealand literature, including, with Marion McLeod, the now classic Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories (1984). In 2018 Bill Manhire was awarded an Icon Award Whakamana Hiranga from the Arts Foundation.
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