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Lifted

by Bill Manhire

First published in 2005, Lifted won the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

"Manhire shows not only his mature formal skills but his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. He is a poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience." --Billy Collins

These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance and once again to curiosity. Lifted is a book by a poet writing at the height of his powers.
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Pages:

80

Published:

1 Jul 2005

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Te Herenga Waka University Press

ISBN:

9780864735096

First published in 2005, Lifted won the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

"Manhire shows not only his mature formal skills but his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. He is a poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience." --Billy Collins

These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance and once again to curiosity. Lifted is a book by a poet writing at the height of his powers.
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