Professor Bill Manhire CNZM, (born in Invercargill in 1946) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and short story writer. His work has won the New Zealand Book Awards poetry prize five times, in 1978, 1985, 1992,1996 and his most recent work "Lifted" received the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Prize. Manhire has been a strong promoter of local poetry and other writing, acting as editor of several compilations of New Zealand short stories, … Wikipedia
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Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946, and grew up in small hotels in Otago and Southland, an experience beautifully evoked in his short memoir, Under the Influence. www.artsfoundation.org.nz/bill-manhire.html
MANHIRE, Bill Manhire has a postmodern, or perhaps simply an alert poets, consciousness of the strangeness of language. www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/manhireb.html