Selected Poems
eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

About this book

Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet, has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his landscapes (including Antarctica) and his language. He was New Zealand's first Poet Laureate and is one of its most popular and entertaining writers. This book traces his evolution over more than four decades, from The Elaboration (1972) through to The Victims of Lightning (2010) and new poems. It is the story of a love affair with the planet: 'The world is a constant amazement, / always on the move'.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781847772473
eBook ISBN
9781847775191
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Love Poem
  6. Poem
  7. The Elaboration
  8. The Spell
  9. The Prayer
  10. The Voyage
  11. Pavilion
  12. The Incision
  13. The Poetry Reading
  14. Ornaments
  15. Last Sonnet
  16. Summer
  17. It Is Nearly Summer
  18. On Originality
  19. The Proposition
  20. The Cinema
  21. The Song
  22. How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic
  23. Some Epithets
  24. The Trees
  25. Contemplation of the Heavens
  26. A Song About the Moon
  27. What It Means to be Naked
  28. Wingatui
  29. The Selenologist
  30. Wulf
  31. Loss of the Forest
  32. Wellington
  33. Party Going
  34. The Voyeur: An Imitation
  35. The Caravan
  36. Declining the Naked Horse
  37. Red Horse
  38. Night Windows Carey’s Bay
  39. Children
  40. Last Things
  41. An Outline
  42. A Scottish Bride
  43. Water, a Stopping Place
  44. Legacies
  45. She Says
  46. The Distance Between Bodies
  47. Girl Reading
  48. Zoetropes
  49. Out West
  50. Magasin
  51. Jalopy: the end of love
  52. Our Father
  53. Milky Way Bar
  54. Masturbating
  55. My Lost Youth
  56. Miscarriage
  57. Breaking the Habit
  58. Hirohito
  59. Brazil
  60. Phar Lap
  61. Remarkables
  62. from Isabella Notes
  63. My Sunshine
  64. Colloquial Europe
  65. Ain Folks
  66. The English Teacher
  67. Moonlight
  68. Picnic at Woodhaugh
  69. What to Call your Child
  70. A Final Secret
  71. Visiting Mr Shackleton
  72. Antarctic Stone
  73. The Next Thousand
  74. Without Form
  75. The God’s Journey
  76. Song: Alzon
  77. Across Brooklyn
  78. The Ladder
  79. Opoutere
  80. Still Life with Wind in the Trees
  81. An Inspector Calls
  82. Encouragement
  83. Dogs
  84. Erebus Voices
  85. Hotel Emergencies
  86. Death of a Poet
  87. Kevin
  88. The Cave
  89. The Victims of Lightning
  90. Velvet
  91. Song with a Chorus
  92. 1950s
  93. Frolic
  94. Quebec
  95. Captain Scott
  96. Visiting Europe
  97. Toast
  98. Pussy
  99. The Lid Slides Back
  100. The Wrong Crowd
  101. Peter Pan
  102. My Childhood in Ireland
  103. The Sick Son
  104. The Oral Tradition
  105. The Ruin
  106. The Schoolbus
  107. The Question Poem
  108. Old Man Puzzled by His New Pyjamas
  109. Index of Titles
  110. Index of First Lines
  111. About the Author
  112. Copyright