Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard chosen for their often crude

chosen for their often crude and childlike impression to indicate the effects of trauma

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

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

flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell

friendship and unconditional love

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard chosen for their often crudeBill 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