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Titel: Wow
Zustand: Neu
Autor: Bill Manhire
Produktart: Taschenbuch
EAN: 9781800170049
ISBN: 9781800170049
Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release date: 29/10/2020
Description: A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow', and the wonder is real at the world and at language. But the world will have the last word.Writing of Manhire, Teju Cole declared, 'Being the leading poet in New Zealand is like being the best DJ in Estonia, impressive enough on its own terms. But Bill Manhire is more than that: he's unquestionably world-class. As with Seamus Heaney, you get a sense of someone with a steady hand on the tiller, and both the will and the craft to take your breath away.'Bill Manhire was New Zealand's first poet laureate. He established and until recently directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. This is the ninth of his Carcanet books in 30 years. They include a Selected and a Collected Poems.
Anzahl der Seiten: 88
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 216mm
Länge: 135mm
Breite: 8mm
Sprache: Englisch

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