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Bill Manhire's new collection, his first UK publication since Selected Poems, begins with the song of an extinct bird and journeys on into troubling futures.

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Writers of all skill levels can give their minds a work-out with this extensive book of writing prompts and exercises. Brimming with stimulating trigger ideas, the exercises help readers explore the nuts and bolts of the craft, from poetry and short fiction to scriptwriting, while helping to find inspiration everywhere.

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These sometimes savage, sometimes wry and rueful, always inventive stories evoke the reality of the South Pacific Zealand and environs - with its "more market economy" tourists and its wacky national pride. Several of the pieces, first collected in "The New Land", won the 1990 Buckland Award for the best work of literature published in New Zealand. To "South Pacific" Bill Manhire adds new tales and other work. There's a do-it-yourself murder m...

Showcasing for the first time selections from a notable online anthology, this volume captures New Zealand's most exciting and memorable poetry in book form. The result is an indispensable guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry, featuring classic pieces by more than 60 poets.

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 impo...

Building on previous themes and introducing some new techniques, this collection reveals a respected poet at the height of his powers. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, a bracket of songs, and complex emotions--all tempered by the use of humor.

A century after the ill-fated polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, These Rough Notes evokes the dangerous fascination Antarctica elicits in a cross-media collaboration between writer Bill Manhire, photographer Anne Noble, composer Norman Meehan, and singer Hannah Griffin. Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott's journal, the book captures the harsh reality of an unforgiving environment as experienced firsthand by Manhire...

Containing select works from eight previous collections, this work covers the expanse of Bill Manhire's distinguished career in poetry. Obsessed with barren landscapes, Manhire writes in twisting, threatening stanzas and syntax. Manhire's experience with hands-on work in the field lends to his poetry's brash, potent style. His travels to the South Pole and the Norse Sagas drive his work as he continues to be an explorer of language.

Asking what the word "spirit" means for those who do not believe in an afterlife, these rich, courageous poems are above all enigmatic. The central poem, "Kevin, " suggests that in the absence of God, artists must be the ones to elevate the soul and provide hope and wonder through their work.