Some Things to Place in a Coffin

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Some Things to Place in a Coffin is written by Bill Manhire and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1776561058 (ISBN 10) and 9781776561056 (ISBN 13).

Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of memory and mortality, which are also full of jokes and good tunes. Some Things to Place in a Coffin is published simultaneously with Tell Me My Name, Bill Manhire's new poetry + photographs + CD collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin and photographer Peter Peryer.