Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews

In Doubtful Sounds, Bill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages, unlikely people rub shoulders – Ralph Hotere and Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath and James K. Baxter, Maurice Gee and Laura Ranger.

Along the way Manhire investigates why the world's best poems sound like dirty songs, tell outrageous lies, and thrive on their own mistakes.