Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press After starting out as a

After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted reality

This is her third collection

In the poem

wrestling in her fragile possession with every detail of a life never fully accessible by the heart of another: unaware / you are entering // a series of masks

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press After starting out as 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