(Paperback)

(Paperback)

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"" and ""Erebus Voices"".

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

THE STORIES OF BILL MANHIRE collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-ownadventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Under the Influence (2003).

(Hardback)

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 Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide.

(Hardback)

Bill Manhire riddles; Norman Meehan music; Hannah Griffin song; Peter Peryer photographs Dimensions: 210 x 157 mm, 32 pages Poetry + photographs + music CD Cover: Peter Peryer, Untitled, 2016

(Paperback)

Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers.