Manhire, Bill

Good Looks

Bill Manhire · 1982 · Book Haven

$32.00 (€28.50 | £23.79 | ¥5,056)

Auckland University Press 1982 Paperback 68 Words themselves are the material from which poems are made, and Bill Manhire constructs his poems from words with unusual precision and style. This collection opens with poems which record the death of a father, and ens with poems a...

Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82

Bill Manhire · 1985 · Book Haven

$22.00 (€19.59 | £16.36 | ¥3,476)

Allen & Unwin 1985 Paperback 92 ZOETROPES is a selection of poems published by Bill Manhire between 1972 and 1982. New work is included along with poems from The Elaboration (1972), How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic (1977) and Good Looks (1982). An invention of the ea...

The Brain Of Katherine Mansfield

Bill Manhire · 1988 · Book Haven

NZ$32.00 (€16.06 | $18.03 | £13.41 | ¥2,849)

Auckland University Press 1988 Paperback 59 Good

New Zealand Universities Arts Festival Yearbook 1969

MANHIRE Bill & John Dickson · 1969 · Fortuna Books

$30.00 (€26.71 | £22.30 | ¥4,740)

N.Z.U. Arts Festival Committee (200 grams) New Zealand Poetry and Fiction anthology printed by Caxton Press, contirbutors include Russell Haley, Ian Wedde, Alan Brunton, Wayne Smith, Michael Wilson, Rhys G. Pasley, Loma Scarles, Kevin Cunningham, H K A McPherson, P F Ireland,...

Songs of My Life

Bill Manhire · 1996 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.99 | £8.17 | ¥1,736)

Godwit Pub. 1996 Paperback, 246pp. Description A collection of stories which include a do-it-yourself murder mystery, an assassination attempt on the Queen, a humorous account of a Writers' Congress in Kuala Lumpur and an unsettling futuristic tale set in 1999. Bill Manhire is...

Bill Manhire Selected Poems

Manhire, Bill · 2012 · Ariel Books

$20.00 (€17.81 | £14.87 | ¥3,160)

Victoria University Black bds with gilt spine title, black ribbon markers, Ralph Hotere frontis illus in colour, 160 pages. Copy is unworn, bright and crisp. Only fault is DJ has tiny tear at top front and top rear edges. H First Edition Near Fine Wellington, New Zealand Fine ...

Good Looks

Manhire, Bill · 1982 · Ariel Books

$20.00 (€17.81 | £14.87 | ¥3,160)

Auckland University Press Authors fifth book of poetry. CONDITION 68 pages. Copy is very bright and crisp with faint wear at tips. S First Edition Auckland, New Zaland Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

The New Land: A Picture Book (Pacific Writers Series).

Manhire, Bill: · 1990 · Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG

€7.70 ($8.65 | £6.43 | ¥1,366)

Austria, Bill Manhire, 1990. 119 p., Paperback. Good condition according to age. Brownished paper. Library copy with usual marks.

100 New Zealand Poems

BILL MANHIRE (ED) · 1994 · Little Lane Books

A$27.00 (€16.64 | $18.69 | £13.89 | ¥2,952)

Auckland, Godwit. 1994. Soft cover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, Just a slight bump to upper right corner o/wise it's a beaut - unpaginated but say 150 with notes at end. 100 New Zealand Poems is a journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of New Zealand - from...

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories

Bill Manhire and Marion McLeod · 1985 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.61 | £5.66 | ¥1,202)

Unwin Paperbacks 1985 Paperback, 256pp. (ISBN: 0048200182). Good.

Some Other Country - New Zealand's best short stories

Bill Manhire and Marion McLeod · 1997 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.78 | $8.73 | £6.49 | ¥1,380)

Bridget Williams Books 1997 Paperback, 450pp. At The Bay / Katherine Mansfield -- Man's Inhumanity To Man / John A. Lee -- The Totara Tree / Roderick Finlayson -- The Hole That Jack Dug / Frank Sargeson -- After The Earthquake / James Courage -- The Quiet One / Dan Davin -- Al...

The Stories Of Bill Manhire

Bill Manhire · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.99 | £8.17 | ¥1,736)

Victoria University Press 2015 Hardback. Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queens visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devis...

Doubtful Sounds

Bill Manhire · 2000 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.99 | £8.17 | ¥1,736)

University of Wellington Press 2000 Paperback, 295pp. Essays and interviews (Victoria University Press essays and interviews) Bill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the pupil and lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages unlikely people rub...

Still Shines When You Think of It: a Festschrift for Vincent O'sullivan

Bill Manhire · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$22.50 (€11.29 | $12.68 | £9.43 | ¥2,003)

Victoria University Press 2007 Paperback. (ISBN: 9780864735713). Very Good.

Are Angels Ok?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists

Paul Callaghan and Bill Manhire · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.78 | $9.86 | £7.33 | ¥1,558)

Victoria University Press 2007 Paperback, 338pp. New Zealand’s top writers and physicists collaborate to create a provocative and fascinating discussion on the most strange and fantastic aspects of physics. With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle du...

The Stories Of Bill Manhire

Bill Manhire · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$21.50 (€10.79 | $12.12 | £9.01 | ¥1,914)

Victoria University Press 2015 Hardback. Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queens visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devis...

The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica

Bill Manhire · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$20.50 (€10.29 | $11.55 | £8.59 | ¥1,825)

Victoria University Press 2004 Paperback, 336pp. Owner's Name inside. (ISBN: 9780864734853). Good.

Lifted

Bill Manhire · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.61 | £5.66 | ¥1,202)

Victoria University Press 2005 Paperback, 79pp. (ISBN: 9780864735096). Good.

Are Angels Ok?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists

Paul Callaghan and Bill Manhire · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$22.50 (€11.29 | $12.68 | £9.43 | ¥2,003)

Victoria University Press 2007 Paperback, 338pp. New Zealand’s top writers and physicists collaborate to create a provocative and fascinating discussion on the most strange and fantastic aspects of physics. With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle du...

Numbers 1.

R L Barth, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Attila Jozsef, Bill Manhire, Matthew Mead, Ken Smith, Timothy Steele, Elaine Feinstein, Nicole Ward Jouve, Vittorio Sereni · 1986 · Hessay Books

£7.50 (€8.98 | $10.09 | ¥1,594)

Numbers, 1986. First Edition. Soft Cover, 96pp, white card covers. A very clean, tight copy. Poems, including a passage from Beowulf translated by Heaney, and prose including Feinstein on Marina Tsvetayena... Fine.