Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire is the founder of the International Institute of Modern Letters writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent books are Some Things to Place in a Coffin (VUP, 2017), Tell Me My Name (VUP, 2017; riddles set to music by Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin), and Wow (VUP, 2020). Bill was born in Invercargill in 1946.
Books
Dec 11, 2020
Missing persons: How poets are erased in the world of classical music
If the words matter so little to composers or performers that they can’t be bothered naming the writer, why don’t they just settle for humming the melody?
