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Wellington poet Bill Manhire takes the cover of the 2008 spring edition of literary periodical Poetry London, in which his poems ‘Song with a Chorus’, ‘Velvet’ and ‘The Carpe Diem Poem’ appear. Manhire read his verse alongside UK author and poet Frank D’Aguiar at the launch of the summer issue of the publication in London’s Gallery of Foyles Bookshop. From ‘Velvet’: ‘For only a deer in solitude can be a 165, / can turn and be this other thing entire, / a great head watching from the wall.’ Manhire’s Three Poems is reviewed in the London Review of Books. He is director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington.