Wow by Bill Manhire
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Christine Marendon from the humorous to the

from the humorous to the nostalgic

fear and the limits of our knowledge – we can and cannot say about one of the most profound events we can face

lone parent Mary Thomas

and has held residencies at Merton College

Wow by Bill Manhire <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Christine Marendon from the humorous to theBill 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