Title: Doubtful sounds
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Interviews, Poetry, Poets, New Zealand, New Zealand Poets, Poets, New zealand, intellectual life
Places: New Zealand
People: Bill Manhire (1946-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9639.3.M254 D68 2000