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The Victims of Lightning
Author(s): Bill Manhire (author) (Author)
- Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 0864736223
- ISBN-13: 9780864736222
Book Description
Building on previous themes and introducing some new techniques, this collection reveals a respected poet at the height of his powers. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, a bracket of songs, and complex emotions―all tempered by the use of humor.
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About the Author
Bill Manhire directs the creative writing program at Victoria University of Wellington and is the author of Collected Poems and Lifted. He was the inaugural Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 1996–97, received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate award in 2005, and in 2007 received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry.
