The dead gaze back across their special days:cloud above clover, crisis above the crow ...Such new horizons, yet they still approach.They know how eclipse and ecstacy edge along together:whisper and wink of wind, but no real weather.
Between practice and prayer there's always praise.Mist and mistakes are in the text.And now here's the night – nobody's next – and poetryfalls from the crucifixi ... (read more)
Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire was New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate. He founded the well-known creative writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent books are a collection of short fiction, The Stories of Bill Manhire (VUP, 2015), and a Selected Poems. He has also been writing songs with the jazz musician Norman Meehan.