Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire children's laureate but he is also a

but he is also a visionary in the sense that his poems sharpen vision of the environment and the crucial minutiae of the natural world we partly inhabit

Praise for Magnolia

the disorientation

presented for the first time in English in Olivia E

Elizabeth Acevedo

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire children's laureate but he is also aBill 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