Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard This bundle includes the 5

This bundle includes the 5 shortlisted titles for Best Collection and the 5 shortlisted titles for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection

the admin--Kathy Pimlott's third pamphlet is an honest

His whales are enormous symbols swimming all the seas of the world and defining us as they go

Many of these poems are personal

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard This bundle includes the 5Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valry's definition of poetry as a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense'. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that suddenly, on the page become freshly resonant and strange. This is a many peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T. S. Eliot