Michael Harlow

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Publications and Biography  

• Michael Harlow nzepc bibliography
• New Zealand Book Council Writer Files

Gallery

• A selection of book covers [Events, Edges, Giotto’s Elephant, Cassandra’s Daughter]
• The Book of Quiet (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England: Skelton’s Press / Martin Booth, 1974)
• Texts for Composition (1981). Aula der Kantonschule B ülach, Suisse; Christchurch, NZ. Text with graphic scores by Kit Powell in Vlaminck's Tie (1985).

On-line works

From Events, Greece 1967–1974 (Anglo-Hellenic Publishing, 1975).

• The Nannies Are Coming!
• Still Life Photograph With Leather Goods, 1973  
• Meditation With Objects

From Edges (Lycabettus Press, 1974)

• Café Magus
• The Book of Quiet
•  'say simply a kind of perfection'
• Ars Moriendi
• After Kavafy

From Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade (Hawk Press, 1980)

• The Identikit  
• A Romance
• Grandmother the Dancing Woman
• The Albums of Young Lady Tourists
• Inside the question that has not yet been asked:
• 'Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade'  

From Today is the Piano’s Birthday   (Auckland/Oxford UP, 1981)

• Today is the Piano’s Birthday
• The final arrangement
• Predicament
• Ecclesiastical ‘body count’
• The Explanation
• Undiminished
• Pace, Voltaire: question & reply
• The witness chair
• Not Less by Dreaming More

From Vlaminck’s Tie (Auckland/Oxford UP, 1985)

• Extract, Letters from Adjoining Rooms
• Gossipmonger
• ‘Operation Identification;
• The war of course is elsewhere
• 'For words are persons’
• Herr Groddeck in a letter to his lady
• Pensioners
• Vlaminck’s Tie

From Giotto’s Elephant (John McIndoe, 1991)

• In the Picture: Donatello and Brunelleschi; 'Cucumbers and Mad Apples'(NZETC/Sport 5)
• Les Campagnes de Mer
• Apollinaire’s Bandage
• Stop-time: Galata Kebabci/Dunedin  (nzepc Capital of the Minimal)
• No Problem, But Not Easy (nzepc Capital of the Minimal)
• Giotto’s Elephant
• Interior Decorating
• Ars Moriendi
• Talking at the Boundary (nzepc Capital of the Minimal)
• Oh, What a Fetish!
• Xenophon’s Dog

From Cassandra’s Daughter (Auckland UP, 2005)

• Cassandra's Daughter
• And, yes
• A Posy
• ‘Cucumbers and Mad Apples’
• Doppelganger, Greetings
• The Feet and the Fit of Shoes  
• Cremation Blues (Best NZ Poems 2002)
• Reading Mandelstam
• The Dark Twin
• Opening the Book
  

Prose by Michael Harlow

• Statement from Edges (nzepc/Lycabettus)
• Introduction to Events, Greece 1967-1974 (nzepc/Anglo-Hellenic Publishing)
• Statement from Today is the Piano’s Birthday (nzepc/OUP/AUP)
• The Poem in Process: Operation Identification. From Take a Risk, Trust Your Language, Make a Poem (nzepc/Christchurch Teachers College)
• Rev. of Laminations by Murray Edmond. Listener (20 May 2000): 46-47.
• Reading Brunton: Fq and the Fascination of Fictions (nzepc/Landfall 207)

About Michael Harlow

• Murray Edmond. The Poetry of Michael Harlow (nzepc/Landfall 157)
  

Audio

Kit Powell and Michael Harlow. After Babel (1995). Commissioned for performance at the Kykart II Festival, St Petersburg.

•       lo-fi (rm : 7MB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 28MB )

From the Aotearoa New Zealand Sound Archive

• No problem but not easy
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.4MB )
• Cassandra’s daughter
        lo-fi (rm : 310KB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.2MB )
• Today is the piano’s birthday
        lo-fi (rm : 580KB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 2.2MB )
• And Yes
        lo-fi (rm : 240KB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 930KB )
• Magic man
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 8.1MB )
• But life goes on
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 8.1MB )
• Cremation blues
        lo-fi (rm : 1.05MB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 8.1MB )
  

Video

• Tapa Notebook (wmv: 7MB)

Links

• Capital of the Minimal (nzepc 2004)
• Michael Harlow was the 2004 Randell Cottage Writers Trust Resident 

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Last updated 22 August, 2018