Biography
Michael Harlow was the 1986
Katherine Mansfield Fellow, the 1991 New Zealand-Australia Literary Exchange
Fellow, and the 2003 Randall Fellow. As librettist for the NZ-Suisse composer
Kit Powell he has collaborated on Texts for Composition, 1981; Nelson
Songs, 1986; Les Episodes, Conversation with Questions, a commission
from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to celebrate its fortieth anniversary
in 1987, and The Tower of Babel, which was performed at the Kykart II
Festival, St Petersburg, in 1996. His most recent book of poems and short
prose texts, Cassandra's Daughter, was a decade in the making, He works
in Central Otago as a writer and Jungian Analytical Psychotherapise. In No
Problem, But Not Easy he observes:
Sometimes he is friendly
Always in a hurry to be singing.
Sometimes she is not unfriendly
She is full of lightness, and music.
Bibliography
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Poems (New York, 1965)
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Events, Greece, 1967–1974
(Athens, 1974)
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The Book of Quiet
(England, 1974)
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Nothing But Switzerland and Lemonade
(Hawk Press, 1980)
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Today Is the Piano’s Birthday
(AUP/OUP,
1981)
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Vlaminck’s Tie
(McIndow, 1985)
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Giotto’s Elephant
(McIndoe, 1991)
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Cassandra’s Daughter
(AUP, forthcoming)
Poems
© Michael Harlow 2004
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