Selected Poems

This generous selection of Bill Manhires poems moves from playful early pieces like On Originality and How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic to major works of recent years such as Hotel Emergenciesa powerful response to contemporary atrocitiesand Erebus Voiceswritten to be read by Sir Edmund Hillary at the 25th anniversary of the Mt. Erebus tragedy. The poems featured in this definitive collection of New Zealands most important poet are deceptively simple, often funny, and always revelatory of his own and his countrys history.