Bill Manhire

About the Author

Bill Manhire is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, editor, and educator. He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1946. He attended the University of Otago. Manhire is an English professor at Victoria University with research interests in New Zealand literature and the literature of show more Antarctica. He is also the director of the school's creative writing program and the editor of "Mutes and Earthquakes," a book containing the work of several students. Manhire is New Zealand's Poet Laureate and was the Fullbright Visiting Professor in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Manhire has been publishing since 1970, producing almost 30 books. He has received the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry three times and the Montana Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Bill Manhire

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Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984) — Editor — 72 copies

Lifted (2005) 18 copies

Collected poems (2001) 16 copies

Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists (2006) — Editor — 15 copies

Mutes & earthquakes: Bill Manhire's creative writing course at Victoria (1997) 13 copies

The wide white page : writers imagine Antarctica (2004) 12 copies

Wellington: The City in Literature (Our City) (2003) 11 copies

100 New Zealand poems (1993) 10 copies

Six by six (1989) 9 copies

Selected Poems (2013) 9 copies

My Sunshine (1996) 8 copies

Spectacular Babies: New Writing (2001) — Editor — 8 copies

Enduring Legacy: Charles Brasch, Patron, Poet & Collector (2003) — Contributor — 8 copies

Wow (2020) 8 copies

The Exercise Book: Creative Writing Exercises from Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters (2013) 8 copies

Soho Square: Bk. 4 (1991) 7 copies

Doubtful sounds : essays and interviews (2000) 7 copies

Under the influence (2003) 7 copies

These Rough Notes (1900) 7 copies

The New Land (Pacific Writers Series) (1990) 6 copies

The Best of Best New Zealand Poems (2011) 6 copies

Songs of my life (1996) 5 copies

121 New Zealand poems (2005) 5 copies

The Victims of Lightning (2010) 5 copies

Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 (1985) 4 copies

The stories of Bill Manhire (2016) 4 copies

Milky Way bar (1991) 4 copies

Still Shines When You Think of It (2007) 3 copies

The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988) 3 copies

Tell me my name : Bill Manhire riddles; Norman Meehan music; Hannah Griffinn song; Peter Peryeer photographs (2018) 3 copies

Sheet music : poems, 1967-1982 (1996) 3 copies

What to call your child (Te Mata estate poet laureate) (1999) 3 copies

Palemia (2018) 3 copies

Maurice Gee (1986) 2 copies

NZ Listener Short Stories — Editor — 2 copies

Ein anderes Land : short storys aus Neuseeland (2012) 2 copies

Good Looks (1982) 1 copy

The Poet's Wife 1 copy

Malady (1997) 1 copy

South Pacific (1994) 1 copy

Some things to place in a coffin (2017) 1 copy

buddhist rain 1 copy

Manhire at 60 : a book for Bill (2007) 1 copy

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Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 109 copies

The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (1996) — Contributor — 32 copies

An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997) — Contributor — 25 copies

Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies

Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3, December 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies

The Inward Sun: Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame (1994) — Contributor — 6 copies

Second Violins: New Stories Inspired by Katherine Mansfield (2008) — Contributor — 6 copies

The colour of distance : New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories by Bill Manhire

I thought these were, generally, beautiful. Usually short stories are a mixed bag, but this is a distilled, purified collection.

There are many (many) collections of New Zealand short stories: this must be one of the best.

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GirlMeetsTractor | Mar 22, 2020 |

The Brain of Katherine Mansfield by Bill Manhire

I didn't really get this. I got that it was meant to be wacky, but I think kiwi humour is a bit, dare I say, upside down?

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MeditationesMartini | Mar 14, 2017 |

Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New… by Paul Callaghan

This has got something for everyone - short stories, poems, essays, a Dylan Horrocks comic - which turned out to mean that most of it wasn't for me. (I have highly specific taste in poems, for instance: I need them to be telling a story, and preferably to do so in good metered rhyme.) But I did enjoy Elizabeth Knox's "Unobtainium", and though "Dead of Night" by Witi Ihimaera (with scientists Carmichael and Wiltshire) wasn't a unique concept it was told differently than I've seen it before, with some nice new twists.

Oddly I bounced entirely off the Margaret Mahy story. If you want to know what that's about you'll have to read it yourself.… (more)

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zeborah | Jun 5, 2013 |

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