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Sunday 14 May
9.00–10.00am |
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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$22/$18/$12
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Bill
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Image: Grant Maiden
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Bill Manhire once told a friend, “I do very good sadness.” Some Things To Place in a Coffin is his first new collection of poetry in seven years. It promises a fair few sombre tones (includes an elegy for his close friend Ralph Hotere, and a sequence commissioned for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme). He’s also just published a sequence of riddles set to music called Tell Me My Name (in collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin, and with photographs by Peter Peryer). Bill – who grew up in small pubs in Otago and Southland – will talk about sadness, riddles and everything in between with Jolisa Gracewood.
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