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Some Things to Place in a Coffin - Bill Manhire

09 March 2017

Some Things to Place in a Coffin

By Bill Manhire
Price $25.00
ISBN 9781776561056
9 MARCH 2017

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.

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

Bill Manhire's recent books include a Selected Poems and The Stories of Bill Manhire. He lives in Wellington, and was New Zealand's inaugural poet laureate.

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