Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection
Frequently
they slip into the alluring spaces just at the edges of language, dream and
gesture, as they carefully lower, like measuring gauges, into the ineffable:
intimations of mortality, the slippery nature of identity, longing, fear …
Nothing for it but to Sing is Harlow’s tenth
collection – the manuscript of this book won the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
in 2015. Notable for sonic playfulness and insight this selection of lyrical
poems, asks the reader to ‘keep an eye and an ear on the language’.
Nothing for it but to Sing
By Michael HarlowOtago University Press
ISBN 978-1-927322-62-8, $25
MICHAEL HARLOW has published 10 books of poetry, and was poetry editor for Landfall for some 10 years. He has judged New Zealand and international poetry competitions, and been on selection panels including for the New Zealand book awards in 1986 and 2001.
In 2016 he was awarded the PSNZ/Beatson Fellowship Award, and the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award. Two years earlier he received the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Poetry.
Michael has represented New Zealand/Oceania at many international literary festivals. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek, Spanish, German and Romanian.
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