Author

Publication

2000 - Victoria University Press, Wellington, N.Z, New Zealand

Language

English

Word Count

73,750 words, Guess

Page Count

295 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL6841517M
  • ISBN-100864733704
  • OCLC Control Number44803631
  • Library of Congress Control Number00341169
  • LibraryThing486625
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  • Goodreads1813471

Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • DDCB
  • LCCPR9639.3.M254 D68 2000
and 1 more
  • LCCPR9639.3.M254D68

Description

Bill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the pupil and lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages unlikely people rub shoulders - Ralph Hotere and Philip Larkin, Sylivia Plath and James K. Baxter, Maurice Gee and Laura Ranger - Then along the way Manhire investigates why the world's best poems sound like dirty songs, tell outrageous lies, and thrive on their own mistakes. These essays and interviews will not tell you what to think, but they will probably inspire you to do your own thinking.

Subjects

Topics

PoetsPoetryInterviewsIntellectual lifeNew Zealand PoetsPoets, New ZealandNew Zealand -- Poetry

Places

People

Bill Manhire (1946-)

Times

Genres

  • Interviews
  • Poetry

Series Statement

  • Essays & interviews

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