The latest issue of broadsheet, no.14, November 2014, features the distinguished New Zealand poet Michael Harlow, who has recently read at world poetry festivals in Romania and Nicaragua. In 2014, Harlow published his selected poems Sweeping the Courtyard and a collection of love poems Heart absolutely I can.
The issue is the first journal to feature his prose poetry in New Zealand.
The prose
poems are from a work in progress that Harlow is writing.
Of these poems, Harlow writes: ‘they are best
described as very short prose texts (rather like the French récit—I resist the
“flash fiction” definition/category). Closest thing we have to it here is the
prose-poem, and I’m happy with that. I like to think of the poème en prose,
these texts as an example of the “prose that’s in poetry”--following on from
the great Greek poet Seferis, who once remarked words to the effect that “I
wish our poets would write poems with more of what our best prose writers
have...” Or something like that. Thus far, I’ve only published a few of them in
bilingual, translation form, English and Spanish, in overseas journals.’
Others included
are: Michael Duffett (USA/UK), award-winning poet Brian Turner, P. V. Reeves,
Laura Solomon, MaryJane Thomson, Nicholas Reid, Edward Sakowski (translated
from the Polish by Robert Zuch), Riemke Ensing, Noeline Gannaway, Cameron La
Follette (USA), Brentley Frazer (Australia), Michael Walker, Pat White and Mark
Young.
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