num_pages: 80
description: First published in 2005, Lifted won the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry."Manhire shows not only his mature formal skills but his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. He is a poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience." —Billy CollinsThese poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance and once again to curiosity. Lifted is a book by a poet writing at the height of his powers.
language: English
title: Lifted
titlecomplete: Lifted
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 27
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: Poetry (Montana NZ Awards)
publisher: Victoria University Press