In this biography of the eminent New Zealand author Maurice Gee, Manhire traces a career that has included major literary awards as well as a popular television serial of Gee's Under the Mountain. Among Gee's other works are a trilogy for children, which includes The Halfmen of O, the 1983 New Zealand Children's Book of the Year. As part of a series on New Zealand writers, this volume contributes to the growing interest in this vital new literary movement.

Maurice Gee (New Zealand Writers and Their Work)

Manhire, Bill

Oxford University Press

This is a fourth illustrated collection of odd pieces and extracts from memoirs, travel writing, polemic, and poetry. It seeks to mix established writers with the lesser-known, and to encourage readers to take an anarchic approach in the choice of reading material.

Soho Square

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

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 Sir Edmund Hillary at the 25th anniversary of the Mt. Erebus tragedy. The poems featured in this definitive collection of New Zealand’s most important poet are deceptively simple, often funny, and always revelatory of his own and his country’s history.

Selected Poems

Poetry

Victoria University Press

The country to be found in these pages is not the place depicted in glossy picture books or economic profiles. But it is a real place, composed of that blend of accuracy and vision which only the imagination, committed to language and experience, can supply. It is the New Zealand of Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield, of Dan Davin and Frank Sargeson, of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace.  Some Other Country is a collection of stories from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield. It includes recent work by Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme and stories by newer writers such as Barbara Anderson, John Cranna and Emily Perkins, alongside well-known stories by Joy Cowley, C. K. Stead and James Courage.  Some Other Country represents the editors' choice of simply "the best we could find."

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories

McLeod, Marion

Contemporary

Unwin Hyman

Some other country: New Zealand's best short stories

The country to be found in these pages is not the place depicted in glossy picture books or economic profiles. But it is a real place, composed of that blend of accuracy and vision which only the imagination, committed to language and experience, can supply. It is the New Zealand of Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield, of Dan Davin and Frank Sargeson, of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace.Some other Country is a collection of stories selected from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield. This updated edition begins in 1922 and ends with a story published in 1990. It includes recent work by Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme and stories by newer writers such as Barbara Anderson and John Cranna, alongside well-known stories by Joy Cowley, C.K. Stead and James Courage. It represents the editor's choice of simply 'the best we could find'.

World Literature

Paul & Co Pub Consortium

Under the Influence (Montana Estates Essay)

Four Winds Press

Stories of Bill Manhire

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 for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of memory and mortality, which are also full of jokes and good tunes. Some Things to Place in a Coffin is published simultaneously with Tell Me My Name, Bill Manhire’s new poetry + photographs + CD collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin and photographer Peter Peryer.

Some Things to Place in a Coffin

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 artist Peter Peryer, and includes a music CD. The stage production will be premiered at Wanaka’s Festival of Color in April 2017, and performed elsewhere in New Zealand later in the year. Bill Manhire, Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin have collaborated on four celebrated earlier releases: Buddhist Rain, Making Baby Float and Small Holes in the Silence (Rattle Records) and These Rough Notes (VUP). Tell Me My Name is published simultaneously with Bill Manhire’s new poetry collection Some Things to Place in a Coffin.

Tell me My Name

<div>A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow,' and the wonder is real at the world and at language. But the world will have the last word. Writing of Manhire, Teju Cole declared, 'Being the leading poet in New Zealand is like being the best DJ in Estonia, impressive enough on its own terms. But Bill Manhire is more than that: he's unquestionably world-class. As with Seamus Heaney, you get a sense of someone with a steady hand on the tiller, and both the will and the craft to take your breath away.' Bill Manhire was New Zealand's first poet laureate. He established and until recently directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. This is the ninth of his Carcanet books in 30 years.</div>

Carcanet Press Ltd.

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Maurice Gee (New Zealand Writers and Their Work)

Soho Square

Selected Poems

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories

Under the Influence (Montana Estates Essay)

Stories of Bill Manhire

Some Things to Place in a Coffin

Tell me My Name

Wow