Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press people are craving self-discovery

people are craving self-discovery

New members also get a welcome pack

After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted reality

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This is her third collection

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press people are craving self-discoveryBill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valry'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 freshly resonant and strange. This is a many peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T. S. Eliot