William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer,

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(1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at

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in 1975, founded the

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in 2001, and has been a strong promoter of New Zealand literature and poetry throughout his career. Many of New Zealand's leading writers graduated from his courses at Victoria. He has received many notable awards including a

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in 2007 and an Arts Foundation Icon Award in 2018. The ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (2006) states that he is "recognised as among the two or three finest New Zealand poets of his generation", and literary critic

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has observed that Manhire has "probably done more to widen the audience for poetry in New Zealand than any other individual".

Early life

Manhire was born in

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. His mother was from Scotland with a degree in science, and his father was a publican; they had met and married during World War II, and his mother sailed to New Zealand on a ship of

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on Valentine's Day in 1946. In his memoir ''Under the Influence'' (2003), he described growing up in different small town South Island pubs. He attended

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, and later the

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where he received his B.A. in 1967, his M.A. (with honours) in 1968, and his M.Litt. in 1970. He went on to study Norse

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(1970–73, M.Phil.). As a young writer, Manhire sent some poetry to

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; of this work, Manhire later said, "I can't remember the exact contents, but I think they had lines like 'I stalk the streets of the midnight city' and were full of soiled sheets and neon and terrible things like that". He said he was "enormously encouraged" by Brasch's response, which encouraged him to keep trying and to take himself seriously as a writer. Other writers Manhire met in Dunedin included

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, Trevor Reeves and James K. Baxter.

Career

In the 1960s, while still an undergraduate at the University of Otago, Manhire had his first poems published in New Zealand journals, including notably the journal ''

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'', then edited by

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. While studying in London in the early 1970s he had poems published in British magazines. His first book was a poem, ''Malady'', published in 1970. It consisted of just four words ("malady", "melody" and "my lady") arranged in patterns on the page, accompanied by drawings by artist

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, who had met Manhire in Dunedin while he was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow. Manhire's second book, ''The Elaboration'' (1972), was also a collaboration with Hotere, and was published by

and

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. Around this time, and while living in London, Manhire and fellow poet Kevin Cunningham set up the Amphedesma Press to publish their own and their friends' work, including poetry books by

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In 1973, after returning to New Zealand, Manhire began lecturing in the English department of

, where he founded New Zealand's first creative writing course in 1975. His creative writing course, which he taught for more than 25 years, had a major influence on New Zealand literature, with many well-known New Zealand writers having graduated, including

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, Barbara Anderson and

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. ''Mutes & Earthquakes'' (1997) was an anthology of works by his former students; the introduction by Manhire begins with two pieces of advice: "1. Write what you know, and / 2. Write what you don't know". From 2001 to 2013 he was the inaugural and founding director of the

, which offers an MA and Ph.D. in creative writing, as well as a range of specialised undergraduate workshops. Students of the Institute have included

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and

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. In 2016 the institute's building was named the Bill Manhire House in recognition of his contribution to the university and to New Zealand literature. His successor

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said on the occasion that Manhire's name "is synonymous with creative writing at Victoria". Manhire has published a number of poetry collections, including notably his ''Collected Poems'' (2001). His poetry is known for word-play, experimentation and his ironic and whimsical sense of humour. Critic

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writes that Manhire's reputation "rests on a solid, seriously intentioned body of work, notable for its oblique lyricism and sense of wonder at the strangeness of both life and language". After his fifth book of poetry, ''Good Looks'' (1982), Manhire for a time switched to writing prose, publishing ''The Brain of Katherine Mansfield'' (1988), a book in the style of the ''

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'' series with illustrations by

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, and ''The New Land'' (1990), a collection of satirical short stories. In 1986 he wrote a critical study of fellow New Zealand writer

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. In 1998, Manhire went to

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for several weeks with poet Chris Orsman and painter Nigel Brown, as part of the

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programme run by

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. The experience inspired a number of poems which formed the basis of his collection ''What to Call Your Child'' (1999), as well as a subsequent anthology of writing about Antarctica called ''The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica'' (2004) which he edited and introduced. For the 25th anniversary of the Erebus air disaster in 2004, Manhire wrote the poem "Erebus Voices", which was read by

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at the commemorative service at

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. Throughout his career Manhire has been a significant promoter of New Zealand poetry and other local writing, acting as editor of several compilations of New Zealand works, including ''NZ Listener Short Stories'' (1977), ''Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories'' (with his wife

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, 1984, with updated editions published in 1992, 1997 and 2007) and ''Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers'' (1989). His collection of New Zealand poetry, ''100 New Zealand Poems'' (1993), proved particularly popular, and was subsequently expanded to become ''121 New Zealand Poems'' (2005). He was a founding publisher of the online

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, which began in 2000. For many years he presented a poetry segment on the Kim Hill Show on

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. To mark his 60th birthday in 2006, Victoria University Press and ''

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'' published the limited edition ''Manhire at 60: A Book for Bill''. The book featured essays, poems, stories and other written work from over 40 writers who had been inspired by Manhire. Manhire has regularly worked collaboratively with other artists and creators during his career, including with the artist

, physicist

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, composer Norman Meehan and singer Hannah Griffin. His work with Meehan and Griffin has resulted in a range of music publications with lyrics or words by Manhire, including ''Buddhist Rain'' (2010) and ''These Rough Notes'' (2012).

Awards and honours

Manhire has received a number of New Zealand's most prestigious literary awards and fellowships, including the

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in 2004, an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2004 and the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in 2007. He received the

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in 1987 for fiction and in 1989 for poetry. He was appointed the first

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in 1996, and from January to May 1999 was the Fulbright visiting professor in New Zealand studies at

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. In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a

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for services to literature, and that same year received an honorary doctorate of literature from the

. In 2010 he was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. In 2015 he was the UNESCO visiting professor of creative writing at the

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. In 2018, the

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bestowed on him the Icon Award, an award recognising New Zealand's greatest artists, which is limited to 20 living recipients. In 2021 he received an honorary doctorate of literature from

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. His work has won the Poetry Prize at the

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six times: * 1978: ''How to Take Your Clothes Off at the Picnic'' * 1985: ''Zoetropes'' * 1992: ''Milky Way Bar'' * 1994: ''100 New Zealand Poems'' (as editor) * 1996: ''My Sunshine'' * 2006: ''Lifted''

Notable students

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Personal life

He is married to journalist Marion McLeod, and has two children, Vanessa and

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, who are both journalists and writers.

Selected works

Poetry

* 1970: ''Malady'' (with Ralph Hotere) (Dunedin: Amphedesma Press) * 1972: ''The Elaboration'' (with Ralph Hotere) (Wellington: Square & Circle) * 1977: ''How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic'' (Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press) * 1979: ''Dawn/Water'' (Eastbourne: Hawk Press) * 1981: ''Zoetropes'' (London: The Murihiku Press) * 1982: ''Good Looks'' (Auckland: Auckland University Press) * 1984: ''Zoetropes: Poems 1972–82'' (Wellington, Port Nicholson Press; Sydney: Allen & Unwin; Manchester: Carcanet Press) * 1990: ''The Old Man's Example'' (Wellington: Wrist & Anchor Press) * 1991: ''Milky Way Bar'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press; Manchester: Carcanet Press) * 1995: ''Selected Poems'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1996: ''My Sunshine'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1996: ''Sheet Music: Poems 1967–1982'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1999: ''What to Call Your Child'' (Auckland: Godwit / Random House New Zealand) * 2001: ''Collected Poems'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press; Manchester: Carcanet Press) * 2005: ''Lifted'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2005: ''Pine'' (with Ralph Hotere) (Dunedin: Otakou Press) * 2010: ''The Victims of Lightning'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2017: ''Some Things to Place in a Coffin'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2020: ''Wow'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press; Manchester: Carcanet Press)

Anthologies (edited)

* 1969: ''New Zealand Universities Arts Festival Yearbook 1969'' (Dunedin: Caxton Press) * 1977: ''NZ Listener Short Stories'' (Wellington: Methuen) * 1978: ''NZ Listener Short Stories Volume 2'' (Wellington: Methuen) * 1984: ''Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories'' (with Marion McLeod, revised editions published in 1992 and 1997) (Wellington: Port Nicholson Press) * 1989: ''Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1991: ''Soho Square. Four'' (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books) * 1993: ''100 New Zealand Poems'' (Auckland: Godwit) * 1995: ''Denis Glover: Selected Poems'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1996: ''1396, a Literary Calendar : 13 works, hand-set & hand-printed'' (Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press) * 1997: ''Mutes & Earthquakes: Bill Manhire's Creative Writing Course at Victoria'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 1997: ''The New Zealand Short Story Collection'' (with Marion McLeod, Australian edition of ''Some Other Country'') (St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press) * 2001: ''Southern Convergence: Antarctic art'' (Wellington: Pemmican Press) * 2001: ''Spectacular Babies: new writing'' (Co-edited with Karen Anderson) (Auckland: Flamingo) * 2004: ''The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2005: ''121 New Zealand Poems'' (Auckland: Godwit) * 2006: ''Janet Frame: The Goose Bath – Poems'' (with Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold) (Auckland: Vintage) * 2006: ''Are Angels OK? The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists'' (with

) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2007: ''Still Shines When You Think of It: A Festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan'' (with Peter Whiteford) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2008: ''Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories'' (with Marion McLeod, 4th edition) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2008: ''Storms Will Tell: Janet Frame’s Selected Poems'' (with Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold) (Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books) * 2011: ''The Best of Best New Zealand Poems'' (with

) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2012: ''Ein anderes Land: Short Storys aus Neuseeland'' (German edition of ''Some Other Country'', re-edited, translated by Saskia Bontjes van Beek) (Munich: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag) * 2019 Contributor to The New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West ISBN 9781909942288

Other works

* 1975: ''Song Cycle'' (performance, with

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and others) (Wellington: Sound-Movement Theatre) * 1978: ''Riddles for voice and piano'' (with

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) (London: Photographic Service (Music Reproductions)) * 1983: ''Locating the Beloved and Other Stories'' (Wellington: Single Title Press) * 1986: ''Maurice Gee'' (biography) (Auckland: Oxford University Press) * 1988: ''The Brain of Katherine Mansfield'' (choose-your-own-adventure book) (Auckland: Auckland University Press) * 1990: ''The New Land: a Picture Book'' (collection of short stories) (Auckland: Heinemann Reed) * 1994: ''South Pacific'' (collection of short stories) (Manchester: Carcanet Press) * 1996: ''Songs of My Life'' (collection of short stories) (Auckland: Godwit) * 1998: ''Homelight: an Antarctic Miscellany'' (collaborative work with Chris Orsman and Nigel Brown) (Karori: Pemmican Press) * 2000: ''Doubtful Sounds: essays and interviews'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2003: ''Under the Influence'' (memoir) (Wellington: Four Winds Press) * 2010: ''Buddhist Rain'' (album with music by Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin) (Wellington: Rattle Records) * 2011: ''Making Baby Float'' (album with music by Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin) (Wellington: Rattle Records) * 2012: ''These Rough Notes'' (book and album, with

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, Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2016: ''The Stories of Bill Manhire'' (collection of short stories) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2017: ''Tell Me My Name'' (riddles set to music by Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin) (Wellington: Victoria University Press) * 2021: ''Bifröst'' (album with music by Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin, Andrew Laking, Blair Latham, Lance Philip, Neil Aldridge, and Michael Sutherland) (Wellington: Rattle Records)

References

External links

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