Milky Way Bar
BILL MANHIRE

$16.95
Bill Manhire's first book of verse since the award-winning Zoetropes: Poems 1972-1982 . His new poems are by turns deadpan and lyrical—mischievous, code-switching narratives which are just as much at home in the living rooms of soap opera as in the dress circles of grand opera. Several of these poems go travelling (Brazil, Japan, Europe and the American West), but all of them speak consistently from that unimportant, surprising place—'the edge of the universe'—where the author lives, `like everybody else'.

Winter Walk at Morning
IAIN LONIE $16.95
lain Lonie is one of New Zealand literature's most troubling absences—missing from all the anthologies, yet one of our finest poets. When he died in 1988, he left the nearly completed text of Winter Walk at Morning . The variety of these last poems is striking—they can be deftly satiric and heartrendingly personal, light-hearted and intensely serious. But their truest power lies elsewhere. Each poem comes from the same centre—a sensibility which measures worth not only by intelligence and craft but also by integrity of feeling.

Six Stories
BILL PEARSON $19.95
Bill Pearson's novel Coal Flat has become a New Zealand classic. Allen Curnow wrote of it on publication in 1963: ` Coal Flat certainly surprises by a fine excess of unexaggerated truth, and no less by the narrative art that can describe so much, so well.' These stories were published in the years 1947 to 1951. Here collected for the first time, they give an intriguing insight into a talented writer in the process of finding his voice and subject.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
PO BOX 600, WELLINGTON