Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate, and is also the founder of a well-known creative writing program at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published several volumes of poetry, including a Selected Poems with both Carcanet in the UK and Victoria University Press in New Zealand. A new collection, Wow, will be published later this year.
Reading List
Noah
I abandoned the bad band and joined the good band: I thought that we would flood the world with music. The first rains came and soon the trees were somehow growing out of water— we travelled through the forests by canoe. Eventually we built our boat, the famous one with windows and the deck of […]
Letter from the New Place
I sleep in a house that is not my house, not my roof, not my rafters, here at the far end of the twisting tail of a land where only a bucket of gravel will break my fall. All morning filling out forms half listening to the sea that storms and stamps and stammers learning […]
Also
my mother cries all day because soon it will be the world’s last day imagine being a baby again! I can’t do that but I must try * also: my dog’s bark is the whole of the color blue it is ice rising out of the sea and all because he is pleased to see […]