Michael Harlow

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Poet, publisher and librettist Michael Harlow was born in the USA in 1937 and travelled extensively before arriving in New Zealand in 1968. His book Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade (Hawk Press, 1980) was the first book of prose poems published in New Zealand, and his Giotto's Elephant was shortlisted in the 1992 New Zealand Book Awards. He has published four other collections of poetry with Auckland University Press. He has been editor of the Caxton Press poetry series and poetry editor of Landfall. He represented New Zealand at the 2006 Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín, Colombia; the IV Internacional Seminar of Writers, 'Frontiers in Movement' in Monterey, Mexico; the 2007 Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada, Nicaragua and the IV World Poetry Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. He was the Robert Burns Fellow and the Caselberg Artist in Residence in 2009.

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Michael Harlow

Michael Harlow

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