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Some Things To Place In A Coffin
Paperback Edition: 1
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 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.
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Some Things to Place in a Coffin is published simultaneously with Tell Me My Name, Bill Manhire's new poetry + photographs + CD collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin and photographer Peter Peryer.
Cover painting: Ralph Hotere, Untitled (c.1971); collection of Bill Manhire.
Featured in the 13 March 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 95
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2017-03-09
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets