Prof Bill Manhire

Director,
International Institute of Modern Letters

On this page:

• Introduction
• Further Reading About Bill Manhire

Introduction

Bill was New Zealand's inaugural Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate, and is a four-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for poetry.

His prizewinning fiction has been published in Britain and the USA, and he is also well known for such bestselling anthologies as 100 New Zealand Poems, Six by Six, and Some Other Country.

His Collected Poems was published by Victoria University Press and Carcanet.

In 2004 he held the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton.

In 2005 he was made an arts laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of Otago.

In 2007 he received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.

Publications in the last 2-3 years include the short memoir, Under the Influence; an anthology of imaginative writing about Antarctica, The Wide White Page; a collection of poems, Lifted, which won the Poetry Prize in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and the anthology 121 New Zealand Poems.

Most recently Bill has been involved with the editing and publication of Janet Frame's posthumous collection of poems, The Goose Bath, winner of the Poetry Prize in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was also joint project leader of Are Angels OK?, a sci-art collaboration between leading New Zealand writers and physicists.

Further Reading About Bill Manhire