Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press In the poem

In the poem

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Jay Bernard’s powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive

 Oxford Poetry

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire Two River Press In the poemBill 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