Blogs about: Bill Manhire
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When Alice Te Punga Somerville walked out of Lee Chapel a week ago Sunday, she looked around for water and ended up rinsing her fingers in a puddle, flicking the water back over her head. “Don’t want… more →
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From interviews to conversations
wrote 1 day ago: Trialling a community estuary monitoring kit. Waikouaiti, NZ. If ‘inter’ means ‘between’ then hopefu … more →
Ewen has taken up Bill Manhire's memory challenge
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wrote 4 days ago: Ewen from Fendalton Open Air School in Christchurch has taken up Bill Manhire’s idea for a poe … more →
#7: 'There's always a point where a routine enquiry/turns into something else entirely.'
wrote 2 weeks ago: Following this post a few weeks ago, I had an interesting chat with the poet Emily Hasler about the … more →
This week on NZ Poetry Box and Holiday Challenges
wrote 2 months ago: This week we are still playing with list poems. Today, though, I am going tell you about the school … more →
Bill Manhire talks to Poetry Box about building huts
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wrote 2 months ago: I don’t think Bill Manhire has ever written a book of poems for children, but he is one of my … more →
This Week on Poetry Box & Making Lists
wrote 2 months ago: For the next two weeks we are going to play with list poems on Poetry Box. I have always loved poems … more →
5. A Singer May Be Innocent; Never The Song
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wrote 3 months ago: 1. ABSENT MOTHERHOOD AT HOME The Problem That was my winter with Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist … more →
John Holmes
wrote 8 months ago: John owns five presses with his favourite being the cylinder proof press he has at home – it self in … more →
The Frankfurt Book Fair, and trying to have two careers
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wrote 8 months ago: So I wanted to tell you about my experiences at the Book Fair, which only vaguely comes under the … more →
These Rough Notes- Anne Noble and Bill Manhire at Te Papa this weekend.
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wrote 8 months ago: Anne Noble and Bill Manhire ‘These Rough Notes’ Saturday 6 October: 4:00pm and 7:00pm, Sunday 7 Oct … more →
Tuesday Poem: "The Confident Troubador" by Bill Manhire
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wrote 8 months ago: The Confident Troubador I. He praises her eyes. He praises her lips. He imagines her pale, experimen … more →
Fiction for the Fearful
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wrote 9 months ago: “If we had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.” … more →
Performance Tips
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wrote 9 months ago: There are many tricks that I have used repeatedly throughout my career to date, and others that I ha … more →
The Syllabic Childhood of James Brown
wrote 10 months ago: This is the first exercise I give to my under-grad Poetry Writing class (CREW253). There’s ple … more →
SWITCHEROO with Bernadette Hall
wrote 11 months ago: Why not imagine you’re someone else, speak in another voice, from another time, from another side of … more →
Te Papa on Monday 23rd; National Poetry Day on Friday 27th
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wrote 11 months ago: English: Image of the Full Moon rising over Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand) taken by Paul Moss 2002. … more →
Seamus Heaney and poets from around the world at Poetry Parnassus
wrote 11 months ago: Poetry Parnassus at the South Bank was a real treat, giving as it did an opportunity to share the wo … more →
Mobile words of consolation. Poetry Parnassus at the Royal Festival Hall
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wrote 11 months ago: Poetic patterning bumped up against a mechanical metre yesterday. I went to London’s Royal Fes … more →
Best of the best
wrote 11 months ago: We were pleased to see The Best of Best New Zealand Poems getting an enthusiastic review from Terry … more →
