A Taste Of New Zealand: Bill Manhire, Anna Smaill & Carl Shuker

This triple bill event, presented in association with the Centre for New Writing, helped to whet appetites for New Zealand literature. Bill Manhire was New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate and is the author of many volumes of poetry including the recent Lifted - a volume full of richness and courage and surprise, containing poems which turn from grief to curiosity. Anna Smaill is the author of the observant Violinist in Spring, a volume infused with an intrinsic knowledge of music. At once lyrical and acute, her poems are among the best of young, contemporary New Zealand. Carl Shuker created waves with his first novel, The Method Actors, described as 'Lost in Translation for the noir crowd'. His second novel, The Lazy Boys, is no less audacious in tone and style – a nihilistic tale of a brutal drop-out, desperate to escape his middle-class background.

For more information on Bill Manhire click here.

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For more information on Anna Smaille click here.