Facture by Raymond de Borja Sumita Chakraborty 'Bill Manhire was New Zealand's

'Bill Manhire was New Zealand's first poet laureate

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the facing English translations are by leading Welsh poets

Facture by Raymond de Borja Sumita Chakraborty 'Bill Manhire was New Zealand'sRaymond de Borjas facture is an inventive book, both literary and wondrously attuned to the most minute subtleties. The poems in facture are uncannily cohesive, each a small sculpture, a little engine. De Borjas poems speak through the history of the art world, the history of art theory, and an acute sense of the material world as well. De Borjas work feels in service of a larger project which we could call the making of art, art which emerges through