Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He has published many books of poetry and several works of fiction, including the short story collection South Pacific (Carcanet, 1994). Manhire holds a chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he is founding director of its Institute of Modern Letters. In 2005 he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and named an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate. In 2007 he received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.
'Manhire can be a beautifully elemental poet... whose bright, innocent quality of perception (what he himself has called "whimsy") has had a liberating effect on New Zealand poetry.' -- Jeremy Noel-Tod, Culture, The Sunday Times 'Turning the pages of Lifted, no reader can fail to be surprised and delighted by the variety of voices and tones... Manhire shows his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. His poems make us feel as if we are really there.' - Billy Collins
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