Doubtful sounds
Subtitle: essays and interviews
By: Bill Manhire.
Series: Essays & interviews
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Manhire, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.; Poets, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Interviews.; New Zealand -- Intellectual life.; New Zealand -- Poetry.
Genres: Interviews.; Poetry.
Description: Bill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the pupil and lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages unlikely people rub shoulders - Ralph Hotere and Philip Larkin, Sylivia Plath and James K. Baxter, Maurice Gee and Laura Ranger - Then along the way Manhire investigates why the world's best poems sound like dirty songs, tell outrageous lies, and thrive on their own mistakes. These essays and interviews will not tell you what to think, but they will probably inspire you to do your own thinking.
Notes: Includes index.