Some Things to Place in a Coffin
Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781776561056
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: 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 by the BBC 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.