Books by Bill Manhire

BILL MANHIRE was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He heads the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme. He has published many books of poetry, and a number of volumes of fiction. In June 2005 he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.