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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Victoria University of Wellington Press
- Pages
- 95 pages
- ISBN
- 9781776561056
Some Things to Place in a Coffin
The outer archives are busy
About this book
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.
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Pacing
Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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LGBTQ+ Representation
Social & Political Themes in Stories