Bill Manhire
@pacificraft
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet in the UK.
. How Memory Works Come over here we say to the days that disappear. No, over here. .
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to @PoetryFound for letting me try to restore this healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17056…
4 of the 5 senior historian roles at Ministry for Culture & History are being cut. This cannot fail to have a significant impact on its responsibility to research #NZ history & maintain & update critical online platforms like Te Ara. @ManatuTaonga rnz.co.nz/news/political…
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‘I’m very fond of the dailyness of life. I like getting up, and going to work, and opening the post, and answering letters offensively, and coming back in the evening, and having a drink and settling down to listen to records or to try to write poetry.’
"Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading: *All is discovered: fly*, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage.." Josephine Tey, born July 25 1896
Wrote a little piece on the slashing of historian roles at MCH and the wider war on history. buttondown.com/unsettling/arc…
Husband is chuffed to bits. He has been whistling the same whistle for months at our resident big boy tui and now tui is repeating same whistle. Tui does his own whistle, click click etc, now adds husband's whistle when he sees him.
Shock, horror! English Honours graduate from Victoria University doesn't know what 'fulsome' means.
. Small Child Tying a Shoe He looks up with a happy smile, totally pleased with his failure. .
Wellington.Scoop: Food trucks? Fountains? Civic Square confusion ift.tt/GglmYBs
No one has had the heart to rebuild Nuku'alofa's gothic Church of Tonga. God has judged it with cyclone, eruption, tsunami. I crawled & climbed through its ruins, which have only been made more permanent by scaffolding.
Jon Stewart responded to CBS bowing down to Trump and canceling Colbert
Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.
Take note NZ.
Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure. It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership. That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector. Put water back into public hands, now.
Excellent read. And I'd forgotten about Brothel Creepers! newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/22/mau…
“Your your voice had to be that ‘40s wartime voice” A poem by Jean Valentine.