Lyrical Ballads
- ISBN #9781776923021
- Bill Manhire
- Paperback
- Due 12th February
- Due 12th February
Lyrical Ballads
- ISBN #9781776923021
- Bill Manhire
- Paperback
- Due 12th February
- Due 12th February
$26.08 ex GST
- Product Details
- Delivery & Returns
-
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valery's definition of poetry as 'a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense'. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that - suddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird. This is a many-peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram have walk-on parts. The collection is anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery and absurdity: 'The Tobacco Tin', a kind of folk story riding along on its own lacunae, and 'Tell You What', a set of curmudgeonly opinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world. As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don't fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 12/02/2026
- Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
- Country of Origin: New Zealand
- Pages: 136
-
There is no Handling & Delivery cost for orders over $50 ex GST unless there are large items in your order.
Orders under $50 (ex GST) & excluding Gift Card only orders :
$6.00 ex GST ($6.90 incl GST)
Surcharge for Rural Delivery addresses $3.13 ex GST ($3.60 incl GST) for orders under $50 ex GST
Orders with only Gift cards under $50 are charged $2.52 ex GST ($2.90 incl GST)There is no Handling & Delivery cost for eGift card orders.
Charges for Large or Bulky items . These are indicated by the Large item icon.
Regardless of total order value: first unit $8.70 ex GST ( $10 incl GST), then every subsequent unit $4.35 ex GST ($5 incl GST)Read more about Delivery Information
Read our Returns and Exchanges Policy
-
Product Details
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valery's definition of poetry as 'a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense'. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that - suddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird. This is a many-peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram have walk-on parts. The collection is anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery and absurdity: 'The Tobacco Tin', a kind of folk story riding along on its own lacunae, and 'Tell You What', a set of curmudgeonly opinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world. As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don't fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 12/02/2026
- Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
- Country of Origin: New Zealand
- Pages: 136
- Delivery & Returns
