Doubtful Sounds: Essays and InterviewsBill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the pupil and lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages unlikely people rub shoulders - Ralph Hotere and Philip Larkin, Sylivia Plath and James K. Baxter, Maurice Gee and Laura Ranger - Then along the way Manhire investigates why the world's best poems sound like dirty songs, tell outrageous lies, and thrive on their own mistakes. These essays and interviews will not tell you what to think, but they will probably inspire you to do your own thinking. |
Contents
Impure Sounds in New Zealand Poetry | 9 |
Interviewed by Iain Sharp | 23 |
Note for The Young New Zealand Poets | 54 |
Fault | 66 |
Laura Ranger | 95 |
Mutes Earthquakes | 109 |
Maurice Gees The Big Season | 118 |
Growing Points of Truth | 124 |
Symmes Hole | 133 |
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