Mutes & earthquakes: Bill Manhire's creative writing course at Victoria

by Bill Manhire

333 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

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

[Róisín · Rating 4 out of 5]

really immaculate range of nz writings, and personally loved the willing offer of the writing and poetry exercises used in the fine letters program! will absolutely be trying some out myself.

highlighted:
(via margaret mahy): If you find that your plot is not developing as it should, back up a little. You may have the wrong character or be asking the wrong questions. Consider options. Try some lateral thinking.

Quite recently I started stubbing my long Toes, reaching out of jandals, as nature Began pitting its strength against movement.

[Eliza]

I really want to read this book - have read a small bit of it somewhere before. Apparently it is out of print.