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Bill Manhire (born in Invercargill in 1946) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and short story writer. Invercargill is the southernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the most southern settlements in the world. ...
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
His poetry has been published in a number of volumes: Malady (1970), The Elaboration (1972), Song Cycle (1975), How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic (1977), Dawn/Water (1979), Good Looks (1982), Locating the Beloved and Other Stories (1983), The Old Man's Example (1990), Milky Way Bar (1991), My Sunshine (1996), What to Call Your Child (1999), as well as the compilations Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 (1984), Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982 (1996), and Collected Poems (2001). His work has won the New Zealand Book Awards poetry prize four times, in 1978, 1985, 1992, and 1996.
Manhire has been a strong promoter of local poetry and other writing, acting as editor of several compilations of New Zealand short stories, most notably Some Other Country (1984) and Six by Six (1989). His collection of New Zealand poetry, 100 New Zealand Poems (1993), proved particularly popular.
Bill Manhire currently lectures in English and creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, where he is also the director of the International Institute of Modern Letters. Some of the work of his former students was published in the volume Mutes and Earthquakes in 1997. Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain types of writing from writing in general. ...
Victoria University of Wellington is the oldest university in Wellington, New Zealand. ...
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