Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard flown from Paradise to save

flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell

L’Italie L’Ondon includes fourteen poems and four objects

His whales are enormous symbols swimming all the seas of the world and defining us as they go

friendship and unconditional love

Many of these poems are personal

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Clare Pollard flown from Paradise to saveBill 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