Sheet Music: Poems, 1967-1982

by Bill Manhire

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He holds a personal chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme and the International Institute of Modern Letters. His volume of short fiction, South Pacific, was published by Carcanet in 1994.

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favourite so far of Manhire's poetry collections (though granted, I've not read them all yet). Imaginative, and darkly fantastic - I particularly liked the short "Poem" and "Poem Against the Natural World". That last is the pick of the collection, I reckon.

[Rabishu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd read a couple of his collections before, as well as a few of his critical essays. This anthology confirmed his awesomeness. Mysterious, obtuse, personal poetry written in everyday language.