Bill Manhire
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Toitū Te Tiriti!
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Bill Manhire
@pacificraft.bsky.social
· Nov 28
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My Final Poem
Someone rides a bicycle through a cemetery,
then in and out of my poem.
Why would anyone do that?
I was expecting a dark horseman,
not a clown on a bicycle.
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Just added in terrific Vincent O'Sullivan poem selected by his son, Dominic. Read then listen to Selina read her Vincent poem. Perfect weekend interlude. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening
Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures Laureates: Chris Tse, Elizabeth Smither, Karl Stead, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, David Eggleton. Image: Miro King An …
nzpoetryshelf.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just added in terrific Vincent O'Sullivan poem selected by his son, Dominic. Read then listen to Selina read her Vincent poem. Perfect weekend interlude. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
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When rain is predicted for several days in Leeds they issue us with these so people can look at us and think "Well it's raining but I'm still not a damn poet, so there's that!"
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
When rain is predicted for several days in Leeds they issue us with these so people can look at us and think "Well it's raining but I'm still not a damn poet, so there's that!"
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‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
Opinion from Auckland University: The Govt’s boldest tertiary policy shift in years barely mentions the arts, humanities and social sciences. That’s a problem.
New tertiary plan blind to some of our most valuable assets
newsroom.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
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Our Nativity scene starring Werner Herzog as The Narrator.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Our Nativity scene starring Werner Herzog as The Narrator.
Still Life with Wind in the Trees
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Still Life with Wind in the Trees
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Prompted by the Self and Sequence: Lyric Diary symposium, Volume Books has put a page of books together that use fragments as form
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
Volume Focus: FRAGMENT AS FORM — VOLUME
A selection of books from our shelves that use the accumulation of fragments as a literary form. Click through to find out more: Garments Against Women Terrier, Worrier Flickerbook ...
volume.nz
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Prompted by the Self and Sequence: Lyric Diary symposium, Volume Books has put a page of books together that use fragments as form
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
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newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a... Good news! All publishers need is enough notice to abide by the rules.
AI cover ban overturned for book awards
Ockham reverses its ban on two books with AI covers
newsroom.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a... Good news! All publishers need is enough notice to abide by the rules.
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Mishearing the words 'the big Heaney book', my wife formed the impression that the large tome I was studying was something called 'the bikini book'.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Mishearing the words 'the big Heaney book', my wife formed the impression that the large tome I was studying was something called 'the bikini book'.
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Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
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What's your best book of 2025? If you share today, you might end up in our newsletter tomorrow.
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks
We found out the favourite 2025 books of 35 expert readers – and the Books & Ideas team shares our own picks, too.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What's your best book of 2025? If you share today, you might end up in our newsletter tomorrow.
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
Includes a terrific new poem by Jenny Bornholdt
An incredible evening - Poetry Shelf celebrates with a collage of poetry treats nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening
Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures Laureates: Chris Tse, Elizabeth Smither, Karl Stead, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, David Eggleton. Image: Miro King An …
nzpoetryshelf.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Includes a terrific new poem by Jenny Bornholdt
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It was winter, near freezing,
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dipper”
published in POETRY (June 2004)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dipper”
published in POETRY (June 2004)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It was winter, near freezing,
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dipper”
published in POETRY (June 2004)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dipper”
published in POETRY (June 2004)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Damien Wilkins remembers the violence caused by Randy Newman’s hit song. And gives away an LP.
A close reading of ‘Potholes’ by Randy Newman (and a vinyl giveaway!)
'The most honest song I’ve ever written.'
thespinoff.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Damien Wilkins remembers the violence caused by Randy Newman’s hit song. And gives away an LP.
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What the what now?
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What the what now?
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This is laugh out loud!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Murray Edmond
INTERVIEW WITH A POEM: ‘Night Shift 1’ (1970) Night-Shift 1 I get up at 4.00pm& buy a cheese3 tomatoes, an orange, & a tin of fruit juiceas usual;also a paper.I return to the kitchen& p…
nzpoetryshelf.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is laugh out loud!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
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4 decades ago i used to work for a demolition outfit and these scenes still distress me. i can imagine it would be so much worse for people with a connection to the place. buildings, homes, retain some essence of past lives. we are at a funeral here, and this is no way to conduct a funeral.
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
4 decades ago i used to work for a demolition outfit and these scenes still distress me. i can imagine it would be so much worse for people with a connection to the place. buildings, homes, retain some essence of past lives. we are at a funeral here, and this is no way to conduct a funeral.
“Sorry, I’ve been at a work do and been drinking quite heavily this afternoon, which I always feel is a really good prelude to coming on Radio New Zealand.”
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/r...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/r...
Robin Hyde house bowled
First photos of the controversial demolition of the house where author Robin Hyde wrote her greatest works
newsroom.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Sorry, I’ve been at a work do and been drinking quite heavily this afternoon, which I always feel is a really good prelude to coming on Radio New Zealand.”
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/r...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/r...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
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CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
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I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
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Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.
2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets ($9000) - Overland literary journal
About the prize Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no ...
overland.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.
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Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in.
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in.
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
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Summer
there! where the coast
turns the corner
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Summer
there! where the coast
turns the corner
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November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Summer
there! where the coast
turns the corner
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Summer
there! where the coast
turns the corner
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