Sweetman Podcast: Episode 130 – Bill Manhire

An in-depth conversation with Wellington-based poet Bill Manhire. We talk through his life from the bottom of the South Island to the UK and then to a temporary stop in Wellington that's been ongoing for over 40 years at this point. Manhire was the figurehead - the father - of the IIML, Victoria University of Wellington's Creative Writing undergrad and post-grad masterclasses. We talk about some of the criticisms he and the course faced and he reads from his work along the way. We talk about his many collaborators and he impersonates some of his favourite poets.