Wow by Bill Manhire
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Spanish From this imaginative core

From this imaginative core

2008) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was followed by Imagined Rooms (Salt

two women begin a quest for a lost child and a lost world of peace

Some Bright Elegance (Salt

light and its absence

Wow by Bill Manhire <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Spanish From this imaginative coreBill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow', and the wonder is real at the world and