Bill Manhire Collected Poems
, by Manhire, Bill
- ISBN: 9781857545371 | 1857545370
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/2002
Containing select works from eight previous collections, this work covers the expanse of Bill Manhire’s distinguished career in poetry. Obsessed with barren landscapes, Manhire writes in twisting, threatening stanzas and syntax. Manhire’s experience with hands-on work in the field lends to his poetry’s brash, potent style. His travels to the South Pole and the Norse Sagas drive his work as he continues to be an explorer of language.
Bill Manhire was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He is director of the writing program at Victoria University of Wellington and the International Institute of Modern Letters. He is author of the short fiction piece South Pacific. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
| Introduction | |
| Death in Leamington | |
| Hymn | |
| The 'Varsity Students' Rag | |
| The City | |
| An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn | |
| For Nineteenth-Century Burials | |
| Camberley | |
| Croydon | |
| Westgate-on-Sea | |
| The Wykehamist | |
| The Sandemanian meeting-house in Highbury Quadrant | |
| The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel | |
| Distant View of a Provincial Town | |
| Slough | |
| Clash went the Billiard Balls | |
| Love in a Valley | |
| An Impoverished Irish Peer | |
| Our Padre | |
| Exchange of Livings | |
| Undenominational | |
| City | |
| A Hike on the Downs | |
| Dorset | |
| Calvinistic Evensong | |
| Exeter | |
| Death of King George V | |
| The Heart of Thomas Hardy | |
| Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London | |
| The Flight from Bootle | |
| Public House Drunk | |
| Cheltenham | |
| A Shropshire Lad | |
| Upper Lambourne | |
| Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden | |
| Holy Trinity, Sloane Street | |
| On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal | |
| An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 | |
| Trebetherick | |
| Oxford : Sudden Illness at the Bus-stop | |
| Group Life: Letchworth | |
| Bristol and Clifton | |
| Sir John Piers | |
| Myfanwy | |
| Myfanwy at Oxford | |
| Lake District | |
| In Westminster Abbey | |
| Senex | |
| Olney Hymns | |
| On a Portrait of a Deaf Man | |
| Saint Cadoc | |
| Blackfriars | |
| Henley-on-Thames | |
| Parliament Hill Fields | |
| A Subaltern's Love Song | |
| Bristol | |
| On an Old-Fashioned Water-Colour of Oxford | |
| A Lincolnshire Tale | |
| St. Barnabas, Oxford | |
| An Archaeological Picnic | |
| May-Day Song for North Oxford | |
| Before Invasion, 1940 | |
| Ireland with Emily | |
| Margate, 1940 | |
| Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm | |
| The Planster's Vision | |
| In a Bath Teashop | |
| Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fright | |
| On Hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts | |
| Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants | |
| East Anglian Bathe | |
| Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall | |
| The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922 | |
| In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | |
| South London Sketch, 1944 | |
| South London Sketch, 1844 | |
| Indoor Games near Newbury | |
| St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N. | |
| Beside the Seaside | |
| North Coast Recollections | |
| A Lincolnshire Church | |
| The Town Clerk's Views | |
| Harrow-on-the-Hill | |
| Verses Turned | |
| Sunday Morning, King's Cambridge | |
| Christmas | |
| The Licorice Fields at Pontefract | |
| Church of England thoughts | |
| Essex | |
| Huxley Hall | |
| House of Rest | |
| Middlesex | |
| Seaside Golf | |
| I. M. Walter Ramsden, ob. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford | |
| Norfolk | |
| The Metropolitan Railway | |
| Late-Flowering Lust | |
| Sun and Fun | |
| Original Sin on the Sussex Coast | |
| Devonshire Street W.1 | |
| The Cottage Hospital | |
| A Child Ill | |
| Business Girls | |
| Remorse | |
| The Old Liberals | |
| Greenaway | |
| The Olympic Girl | |
| The Dear Old Village | |
| The Village Inn | |
| Station Syren | |
| Hunter Trials | |
| A Literary Discovery | |
| How to Get On in Society | |
| Variations on a Theme by T. W. Rolleston | |
| Diary of a Church Mouse | |
| Wantage Bells | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus | |
| False Security | |
| Eunice | |
| Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station | |
| Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody | |
| Longfellow's Visit to Venice | |
| Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order | |
| Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class | |
| Hertfordshire | |
| Lord Cozens Hardy | |
| Variation on a Theme by Newbolt | |
| Inevitable | |
| N.W.5 and N.6 | |
| From the Great Western | |
| In the Public Gardens | |
| Preface to High and Low | |
| Cornish Cliffs | |
| Tregardock | |
| By the Ninth Green, St. Enodoc | |
| Winter Seascape | |
| Old Friends | |
| A Bay in Anglesey | |
| A Lament for Moira McCavendish | |
| The Small Towns of Ireland | |
| Ireland's Own | |
| Great Central Railway | |
| Matlock Bath | |
| An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield | |
| Lines Written to Martyn Skinner | |
| Uffington | |
| Anglo-Catholic Congresses | |
| In Willesden Churchyard | |
| The Commander | |
| Autumn 1964 | |
| The Hon. Sec | |
| Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk | |
| Good-bye | |
| Five o'Clock Shadow | |
| A Russell Flint | |
| Perp. Revival i' the North | |
| Agricultural Caress | |
| Narcissus | |
| The Cockney Amorist | |
| Harvest Hymn | |
| Meditation on the A30 | |
| Inexpensive Progress | |
| Mortality | |
| Reproof Deserved | |
| Caprice | |
| Cricket Master | |
| On Leaving Wantage 1972 | |
| On a Painting by Julius Olsson | |
| Beaumaris, December 21, 1963 | |
| Hearts Together | |
| Aldershot Crematorium | |
| The Newest Bath Guide | |
| In Memory of George Whitby, Architect | |
| Delectable Duchy | |
| The Costa Blanca | |
| Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican | |
| Executive | |
| Meditation on a Constable Picture | |
| A Wembley Lad | |
| County | |
| Greek Orthodox | |
| Dilton Marsh Halt | |
| Loneliness | |
| Back from Australia | |
| The Manor House, Hale, near Liverpool | |
| Shattered Image | |
| A Ballad of the Investiture 1969 | |
| 14 November, 1973 | |
| A Mind's Journey to Diss | |
| Fruit | |
| Inland Waterway | |
| For Patrick, aetat: LXX | |
| The Last Laugh | |
| 1940 | |
| Interior Decorator (London Magazine 1964) | |
| The Lift Man | |
| Archibald | |
| The Retired Postal Clerk | |
| Cheshire | |
| Advertising Pays | |
| Dumbleton Hall | |
| Thoughts on a Train | |
| Shetland 1973 | |
| To the Crazy Gang | |
| Kegans | |
| Henley Regatta 1902 | |
| 1930 Commercial Style | |
| Guilt | |
| A Romance | |
| Advent 1955 | |
| The Old Land Dog | |
| Before the Lecture | |
| The Parochial Church Council | |
| The Shires | |
| An Ecumenical Invitation | |
| The Conversion of St. Paul (The Listener 1955) | |
| St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill | |
| Woman Driver | |
| The Ballad of George R. Sims (New Statesman 1968) | |
| Civilized Woman | |
| To Stuart Piggott, 1975 | |
| Chelsea 1977 | |
| The Friends of the Cathedral (from Poems in the Porch, 1954) | |
| The Empty Pew (1948) | |
| Index of First Lines | |
| Index of Places | |
| Creatrix | p. 173 |
| Pombe | p. 174 |
| No Avail | p. 175 |
| Dal Riada | p. 176 |
| Belladonna in the Bar | p. 177 |
| Retro Me | p. 178 |
| Sapphics | p. 179 |
| Fur Marja | p. 180 |
| For A. C. | p. 181 |
| Small Hope | p. 182 |
| Homecoming | p. 183 |
| Unfinished Novel | p. 184 |
| Fraulein | p. 185 |
| For My God-daughter, B. A. H. | p. 186 |
| Antihex | p. 187 |
| Orphans | p. 188 |
| Cartomancy | p. 189 |
| The Old Lady Says Yes | p. 191 |
| A Falling Out | p. 192 |
| Impasse | p. 194 |
| Trapped in Shelley | p. 195 |
| The Killing of Dreams | p. 196 |
| Poets Passing | p. 197 |
| Didactic | p. 198 |
| Celtic Sacrifice | p. 200 |
| Public Art | p. 201 |
| In the Landscape | p. 202 |
| Talking Verses | p. 203 |
| Mountains, Fall on Us | p. 205 |
| That Actor Kiss | p. 212 |
| The Old Catechism | p. 213 |
| The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart | p. 216 |
| Sibelius in Silence | p. 223 |
| He'll to the Moors | p. 229 |
| Pining | p. 236 |
| Last Aisling | p. 237 |
| 'Slowly the blossoms are falling ...' | p. 238 |
| Sycamore, Sycamore | p. 239 |
| In Memoriam Sheila Hackett | p. 240 |
| Something Secret | p. 241 |
| The Blink of an Eye | p. 242 |
| A Prayer for Sleep | p. 243 |
| Author's Notes | p. 245 |
| Index of first lines | p. 246 |
| Editor's Note | p. 254 |
| The English Teacher | |
| Doctor Zhivago | p. 211 |
| The Prairie Poet | p. 211 |
| An Amazing Week in New Zealand | p. 212 |
| Moonlight | p. 221 |
| Landscape with Bride | p. 225 |
| Picnic at Woodhaugh | p. 226 |
| America | p. 230 |
| What to Call Your Child | p. 231 |
| Lonesome | p. 232 |
| Aubade | p. 233 |
| Inesilla | p. 234 |
| The Album | p. 235 |
| Grapes | p. 235 |
| Petenera | p. 236 |
| Valedictory | p. 237 |
| Domestic | p. 238 |
| Last Days of the Doge | p. 238 |
| Colin | p. 239 |
| Landscape with Pines | p. 243 |
| Between Drinks | p. 244 |
| Nevertheless | p. 245 |
| The Gong | p. 245 |
| Fist Round a Magnet | p. 246 |
| Millennial | p. 246 |
| Luck: A Villanelle | p. 247 |
| Recovered Noah | p. 248 |
| Pledge | p. 249 |
| A Final Secret | p. 250 |
| Hoosh | p. 253 |
| Into the Ice Shelf | p. 261 |
| Blood Falls | p. 262 |
| Some Frames | p. 263 |
| Time Lapse | p. 265 |
| Current | p. 265 |
| Song | p. 267 |
| Blue Flower | p. 267 |
| Erratic | p. 268 |
| Goodbye | p. 268 |
| Deep Field Song | p. 269 |
| Cape Royds | p. 269 |
| Adelie | p. 270 |
| Food Chain | p. 271 |
| The Hut | p. 272 |
| Forecast | p. 273 |
| The Polar Explorer's Love Song | p. 274 |
| Displays | p. 274 |
| Scavenger | p. 275 |
| 'Listen Nigel' | p. 276 |
| Visiting Mr. Shackleton | p. 277 |
| Goodbye | p. 277 |
| Evans | p. 278 |
| Now You See It | p. 279 |
| Going Outside | p. 280 |
| Outside the Hut | p. 282 |
| Antarctic Stone | p. 283 |
| The Next Thousand | p. 285 |
| Author's Note | p. 289 |
| Index of Titles | p. 294 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 299 |
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