Podcast appearances and mentions of bill manhire

Pip Adam muses on novel adaptations into TV or films. She suggests a number of NZ books that would lend themselves to a multi-episode TV series. Pip's choices include Wednesday's Children by Robin Hyde; The Time of the Giants by Anne Kennedy and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield by. Bill Manhire.

It's another fantastic package - beautiful to look at, beautiful to hold and full of amazing poems written by New Zealanders. Some of the writers are children and many are well-known poets such as Elizabeth Smither, James K. Baxter, Margaret Mahy, Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen, and Sam Hunt. From computers and robots to moa and tuatara, from popcorn and mud pies to drought and howling wind.Edited by Jo Noble. Illustrations by David Elliot.First Published 1999 Hardback - 128 pages Line drawings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/avant-garde-books/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/avant-garde-books/support

In this episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth's journey around the Commonwealth takes them to New Zealand where they meet H. E. Bede Corry – the New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK at the time of recording and now the Ambassador to the USA. Meeting at the High Commission in London, he shares his love of New Zealand, and Literature, and discusses New Zealand's poetry.  Poems this episode include Song of Allegiance, by R.A.K. Mason; Huia, by Bill Manhire; and Immigrant, by Fleur Adcock 

Surprised, honoured and just a bit intimidated... That's how our new Poet Laureate Chris Tse feels about his new role. Given he's only in his thirties, he also sees this acknowledgement as a real boost to his confidence. Bill Manhire, Jenny Bornholdt, Selina Tusitala Marsh and David Eggleton are among his predecessors. For the next two years the queer Asian-Kiwi writer will promote poetry and publish more work. We spoke to Chris earlier this year about his third poetry collection, Super Model Minority. Lynn Freeman talked to him as he got ready to take part in the Auckland Writers Festival.

CONTENT WARNING: Loud noises, supernatural disturbances aboard a commercial airliner, mentions of disappearances and memory loss, dread, and terror1207019: Back at Meriwether between missions, Maria listens to a tape from Anna's investigations in Wellington, New Zealand.We are pleased to present the 60th episode of The Sheridan Tapes as a special crossover with the acclaimed audio drama “Apocalypse Songs.” You can listen to the complete series at redscare.co.nz/apocalypse-songsStarring Airen Neeley Chaconas as Anna Sheridan, Amitola Lomas as Maria Sol, Catherine Gavigan-Binnie as the flight attendant, James Cain as Peter Slate, Virginia Spotts as Kate Sheridan, Dryw McArthur as the tour guide, Cassandra Tse as Amy-Louise Chen, and Maxwell Apse as the barista, with original music by Jesse Haugen. Written by Virginia Spotts and Cassandra Tse, based on story and characters from “Apocalypse Songs” from Red Scare Theatre Company. Directed by James Cain and produced by Virginia Spotts, with dialogue editing and sound design by Trevor Van Winkle. This episode was made possible by our supporters at Patreon.com/homesteadcorner, ko-fi.com/homesteadcorner, and our backers on Seed&Spark.Our thanks to the Wellington Writer's Walk and the writers whose work appears in this podcast, credited in order of appearance:Pat Lawlor, From Old Wellington Days, (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1959)Patricia Grace, From Cousins, (Penguin Books, 1992)Bill Manhire, From 'Milky Way Bar' in Milky Way Bar, (Victoria University Press, 1991)For more information, additional content, and episode transcript, visit homesteadonthecorner.com/tst060Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/SheridanTapes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/SheridanTapes.

Small domestic miracles, from a sleeping baby and walking along the beach to the promise of fruit are examined in words and pictures in a book called Bordering on Miraculous Saskia Leek and Lynley Edmeades have worked on the fourth in the korero series helmed by writer Lloyd Jones. He brings together artists and writers to colloborate on books that blend poetry and paintings. Saskia explained to Lynn Freeman that initially she'd been paired with Bill Manhire. Bordering on Miraculous is published by Massey University Press.

It's widely regarded as the most successful treaty in the world, and it was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War. The Antarctic Treaty, which came into force in 1961, protects what is one of the most unspoilt places on earth, from mining, from military activity and allows only scientific exploration and peaceful pursuits. It was thanks to the treaty and research carried out in Antarctica that scientists identified a hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s, but it's been most powerful as a symbol of what can be achieved to create peace between nations and give wilderness protection. So what has made this treaty so effective, and can it still hold up today in a world which is hungry for minerals and where an increasing number of states are seeking to project their technological and scientific prowess in Antarctica? Joining Bridget Kendall is Birgit Njaastad, the Chair of the Committee for the Environmental Protection of the Antarctic, and for more than 25 years a Norwegian Polar Institute environmental expert; Professor Alan Hemmings, a specialist on the geopolitics of the Antarctic from the University of Canterbury New Zealand; and Dr Jessica O'Reilly, Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington in the United States, and the author of The Technocratic Antarctic. With poetry and song about the Antarctic by the New Zealand poet Bill Manhire. Produced by Anne Khazam for the BBC World Service. (Photo: Chinstrap Penguins on Half Moon Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica. Credit: V Stokes/ iStock/ Getty Images Plus)

Music and poetry are almost always part of the opening night of Going West, and this performance from 2017 brought the two together in a remarkable set of spoken and sung poetry and jazz - Small Holes In The Silence. The poems performed, in order are: Rain by Hone Tuwhare Warehouse Curtains by Bill Manhire Wild Iron by Allen Curnow - By kind permission of Tim Curnow Blue Rain by Alistair Campbell - Copyright © the Estate of Alistair Campbell I Met a Man by Janet Frame - By kind permission of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust. Buddhist Rain by David Mitchell Yellow Room by David Mitchell 1950s by Bill Manhire Making Baby Float by Norman Meehan Live on stage in Henderson, Bill Manhire reads a selection of classic New Zealand poems with accompaniment by a jazz ensemble including Norman Meehan on piano, Hannah Griffin on vocals and Blair Latham on saxophone. While the performance takes its name, Small Holes In The Silence, from Hone Tuwhare's beloved poem Rain, Bill Manhire notes that “New Zealand's most famous, most loved, poem, owes itself to Spike Milligan”, as Tuwhare drew inspiration for the line from Milligan's poem There Are Holes In The Sky. -- Permission to set to music the poem I Met a Man from The Goose Bath (2006) by Janet Frame was granted courtesy of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust. The Goose Bath has been reprinted in Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems by Janet Frame (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).

A highlight of 2020 was the publication of 'How to Be Happy Though Human', a collection of new and previous work by virtuoso poet Kate Camp, which was published in New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Admired by Poet Laureate Dave Eggleton for its “smouldering slow burn, curdled idealism, the salvation army assembly of humorous perceptions” it ranges across eclectic subject matter “like a bumper ride in a fairground, crashing into obstacles, at once jarring and exhilarating”. Wry and deadpan, Camp's collected works exhibit all of the technical control, musicality and close observational skills for which she has become internationally renowned. In conversation with poet Bill Manhire, she shares the influences and preoccupations that charge her creativity, reads from her work, and leads some inter-poem banter with Manhire's Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted collection 'Wow'. ​Supported by Platinum Patrons Mary & Peter Biggs. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

The magic of weaving poetry and music together is on show in this Going West session from 2017.  Paula Green, poet, anthologist, reviewer and children's author, with her newly minted honours and awards, shares the stage in a charming conversation with poet, short story writer and academic Bill Manhire, and jazz composer and performer Norman Meehan, as they disclose the alchemy of setting poetic text as song. They discuss their latest collaboration, the riddle project, Tell Me My Name, and along the way Bill Manhire reads two of his poems Frolic and I am quiet when I call. This session took place the day after Manhire, Meehan and friends delivered a captivating opening night performance, https://t.co/Kb3PUgKKtX?amp=1 (Small Holes in the Silence )for the Going West audience. Paula Green describes Bill Manhire's poems as ‘music chambers' and when she asks Norman Meehan to describe the words that characterise their collaborative partnership he replies:  “The first word I would use is ‘work'.  I love work... to paraphrase Margaret Mahy, who said stories confer structure upon our lives. I think work confers a kind of structure on our lives, it gives us a still turning-point… So it's wonderful work...  And the other side of it is I suppose, love, or affection… and that permeates everything we do... So I would say ‘work' and ‘love'… for me they are big themes in life really, they're our pole stars.” 

1 November 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Ralph Hotere was one of Aotearoa’s most significant artists. His life was just as remarkable as his art. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O’Sullivan to write his life story in 2005. Now, this book — the result of years of research and many conversations with Hotere and his fellow artists, collaborators, friends and family — provides a nuanced, compelling portrait of Hotere: the man, and the artist. Vincent O’Sullivan is joined by Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen and Lisa Reihana to discuss the life and work of the man behind the iconic, stand-alone signature: HOTERE. Chaired by Sally Blundell.

Chris Tse reviews Wow by Bill Manhire, published by Victoria University Press.

Chris Tse reviews Wow by Bill Manhire, published by Victoria University Press.

1 November 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Presented by Milford Asset Management Supported by the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship administered by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi For fifty years, writers have travelled to Menton in the south of France to take up the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. While there, they work in a studio attached to the Villa Isola Bella, where Katherine Mansfield, arguably New Zealand’s most famous writer, lived and wrote for a time late in her career. We invite five of those writers to write a letter to Mansfield about their time writing by the Mediterranean, or about anything they think Katherine should know about the world in 2020. Featuring Paula Morris, Vincent O’Sullivan, Bill Manhire, Carl Nixon and Fiona Farrell.

31 October 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Bill Manhire is not only one of our leading poets but was a mentor to hundreds through the International Institute of Modern Letters, where he established the MA in Creative Writing, which for a long time was simply known as ‘Bill Manhire’s writing course.’ American writer Teju Cole says of Manhire, ‘… he’s unquestionably world-class. As with Seamus Heaney, you get a sense of someone with a steady hand on the tiller, and both the will and the craft to take your breath away.’ In the title poem of Manhire’s new collection, we hear a baby say Wow to life. Join the poet and his ex-student of Modern Poetry, John Campbell, for readings and conversation, featuring Manhire’s signature wordplay and humour.

A new collection of Bill Manhire poems is undoubtedly an event. Even if our first Poet Laureate includes a very backhanded compliment on the cover: "Being the leading poet in New Zealand is like being the best DJ in Estonia!" Bill's new collection has a musical connection too. Borrowing from a Kate Bush title, it's called Wow, and it's full of gems and, Bill says, several desperate jokes. Wow is published by Victoria University Press.

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The poems performed, in order, are: Rain by Hone Tuwhare  Warehouse Curtains by Bill Manhire Wild Iron by Allen Curnow - By kind permission of Tim Curnow Blue Rain by Alistair Campbell - Copyright © the Estate of Alistair Campbell I Met a Man by Janet Frame - By kind permission of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust. Buddhist Rain by David Mitchell Yellow Room by David Mitchell 1950s by Bill Manhire Making Baby Float by Norman Meehan Music and poetry are almost always part of the opening night of Going Wets, and this performance from 2017 brought the two together in a remarkable set of spoken and sung poetry and jazz - Small Holes In The Silence. Live on stage in Henderson, Bill Manhire reads a selection of classic New Zealand poems with accompaniment by a jazz ensemble including Norman Meehan on piano, Hannah Griffin on vocals and Blair Latham on saxophone. While the performance takes its name, Small Holes In The Silence, from Hone Tuwhare's beloved poem Rain, Bill Manhire notes that “New Zealand's most famous, most loved, poem, owes itself to Spike Milligan”, as Tuwhare drew inspiration for the line from Milligan's poem There Are Holes In The Sky. -- Permission to set to music the poem I Met a Man from The Goose Bath (2006) by Janet Frame was granted courtesy of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust.  The Goose Bath has been reprinted in Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems by Janet Frame (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).

by Bill Manhire, From ‘Big Weather: Poems of Wellington', selected by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White

This exercise includes the poem 'The 1950s' by Bill Manhire which appears in his collection Victims of Lightning (VUP, 2010) https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/the-victims-of-lightning/

This exercise includes sounds from the Free Sounds Library licensed under Creative Commons https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/ambient-sounds/ And poems from Bill Manhire's poetry collection Call Me By My Name https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/tell-me-my-name/

The poems 'Kevin' by Bill Manhire and 'Two Thieves' from Oscar Upperton's collection New Transgender Blockbusters are the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam. 

An in-depth conversation with writer (and friend) Carl Shuker. We talk about the long road to his new book, A Mistake. We go back to his childhood in Timaru and work from there to the IIML in Wellington when Bill Manhire was at the helm. To Carl meeting Katy (now my wife) and Anna Smaill (his wife). To the influences that shaped him and the insecurities that can still plague. This is a long chat - over many drinks - discussing our friendship, parenting, writing and many shared experiences as well as Carl's journey from Timaru to being one of New Zealand's greatest living novelists.

An in-depth conversation with writer (and friend) Carl Shuker. We talk about the long road to his new book, A Mistake. We go back to his childhood in Timaru and work from there to the IIML in Wellington when Bill Manhire was at the helm. To Carl meeting Katy (now my wife) and Anna Smaill (his wife). To the influences that shaped him and the insecurities that can still plague. This is a long chat - over many drinks - discussing our friendship, parenting, writing and many shared experiences as well as Carl's journey from Timaru to being one of New Zealand's greatest living novelists. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth conversation with poet and educator Bill Manhire

An in-depth conversation with Wellington-based poet Bill Manhire. We talk through his life from the bottom of the South Island to the UK and then to a temporary stop in Wellington that's been ongoing for over 40 years at this point. Manhire was the figurehead - the father - of the IIML, Victoria University of Wellington's Creative Writing undergrad and post-grad masterclasses. We talk about some of the criticisms he and the course faced and he reads from his work along the way. We talk about his many collaborators and he impersonates some of his favourite poets.

An in-depth conversation with Wellington-based poet Bill Manhire. We talk through his life from the bottom of the South Island to the UK and then to a temporary stop in Wellington that's been ongoing for over 40 years at this point. Manhire was the figurehead - the father - of the IIML, Victoria University of Wellington's Creative Writing undergrad and post-grad masterclasses. We talk about some of the criticisms he and the course faced and he reads from his work along the way. We talk about his many collaborators and he impersonates some of his favourite poets. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

Poet Bill Manhire and musician and composer Norman Meehan join poet Paula Green to discuss their latest collaboration Tell Me My Name, and how they work together to reach a place where, to quote Bill Manhire, "the music doesn't overpower the words; but neither does it defer to them". Ref: Going West Writers Festival archive, Auckland Libraries.

'I Met a Man' by Janet Frame, from the show Small Holes in the Silence. Here is the groups' interpretation of this wonderful Janet Frame poem: I Met a Man. Sung by Hannah Griffin with composer Norman Meehan on piano and Blair Latham on sax. The piece is introduced by Bill Manhire. Permission to set to music the poem 'I Met a Man' from The Goose Bath (2006) by Janet Frame was granted courtesy of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust. The Goose Bath has been reprinted in Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems by Janet Frame (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). Ref: Going West Writers Festival Archive, Auckland Libraries.

We feel blessed to kick off our season of podcasts with a recording from the extraordinary performance Small Holes in the Silence, in which one our most celebrated poets - Bill Manhire - recites Warehouse Curtains; and some of our favourite musicians - Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffith and Blair Latham - render these works in elegant and powerful musical forms. Enjoy these ideas-made-sonic.

An in-depth chat with musician, critic and educator Norman Meehan. We talk through his involvement with music as a writer of biographies and dialogues around music, as a player and composer, as a critic and a teacher. And we pay special attention to the winning collaboration/s with poet Bill Manhire and singer Hannah Griffin across a half-dozen or more recording projects and performance pieces over the last decade. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth chat with musician, critic and educator Norman Meehan. We talk through his involvement with music as a writer of biographies and dialogues around music, as a player and composer, as a critic and a teacher. And we pay special attention to the winning collaboration/s with poet Bill Manhire and singer Hannah Griffin across a half-dozen or more recording projects and performance pieces over the last decade.

Writer Hera Lindsay Bird burst onto the literary scene with her 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted eponymous poetry collection. Bill Manhire, whose latest collection is Some Things to Place in a Coffin, has made a unique contribution to the canon of NZ poetry, and to the literary landscape more generally. With Paris-based NZ poet Andrew Johnston they discuss the development of the country’s poetry practice, and its likely trajectory. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017

In this episode of 'Poem of the Week' Bill Manhire reads 'Indexing Emily'. ABR Editor, Peter Rose, introduces Bill who then reads and discusses his poem. You can find out more about 'Poem of the Week', and read 'Indexing Emily' by visiting our website: www.australianbookreview.com.au

In a week of broadcasts tracking the 100th anniversary of the first week of the Battle of the Somme, Radio 3's Essay series is featuring five new poems written in response to the battle. The poems have been commissioned by 14-18Now and these programmes will broadcast the poems for the first time and also hear from the poets about their inspiration and writing. 4th July: Paul Muldoon: July 1st 1916, With the Ulster Division 5th July: Yrsa Daley-Ward: When your mother calls you, come. 6th July: Bill Manhire: Known Unto God 7th July: Jackie Kay: Private Joseph Kay 8th July: Daljit Nagra: On your 'A 1940 Memory'Bill Manhire's poem was commissioned by 14-18 NOW:WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers' Centre Norwich. It was published by Gatehouse Press."Producer: Tim Dee.

Books, culture and more from the TLS podcast, with Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – this week featuring: Athelstan – Britain's forgotten king; Mary Beard on the ancient precedent of our very modern referendum; a philosophical look at the ugly; English Country Houses, real and literary; and a poem, "Visiting Europe", by Bill Manhire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This year saw the publication of Bill Manhire's Selected Poems (Carcanet), a good moment to look back over the New Zealand poet's career. Fellow poet Gregory O'Brien caught up with Manhire in his homeland to ask him about his Scottish ancestry, his influences, and the time he ended up in Private Eye's Pseud's Corner.

Capturing some of the excitement of StAnza's spectacular opening evening, we have an interview with David Mach, sculptor and Burns burner; poems from acclaimed poets Bill Manhire and Kate Clanchy; music from the amazing Sheena Wellington; and the StAnza 2009 opening speech from Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. With thanks to Gill Bowman and Ewen Maclean for use of their tracks. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza.

A preview of StAnza - Scotland's Poetry Festival - 18th - 22nd March in St Andrews. Featuring music from Gill Bowman, poetry from Kate Clanchy and readings of Ros Brackenbury, Bill Manhire, Adam O'Riordan and Jenny Bornholdt who will all participate in this year's festival. More info at www.stanzapoetry.org

A preview of StAnza - Scotland's Poetry Festival - 18th - 22nd March in St Andrews. Featuring music from Gill Bowman, poetry from Kate Clanchy and readings of Ros Brackenbury, Bill Manhire, Adam O'Riordan and Jenny Bornholdt who will all participate in this year's festival. More info at www.stanzapoetry.org