Some Things to Place in a Coffin

Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of memory and mortality, which are also full of jokes and good tunes.

Year

2018

Language

English

Publisher

Victoria University of Wellington Press

Editions

1

Pages

95

ISBN

9781776561056

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