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Sweeping the Courtyard: Selected Poems

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Sweeping the Courtyard: Selected Poems

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ISBN: 9780473274207
Title: Sweeping the Courtyard: Selected Poems
Author: HARLOW MICHAEL

What does it mean, in the face of the absurd and shadowy
things thrown up by life, to risk delight? What is it that ‘love
dares the self to do and be’? ––Michael Harlow
Michael Harlow's work has long proclaimed its difference
from that of many mainstream writers through its sheer,
joyful celebration of life, the sense that the poet enjoys the
world. Harlow is a distinguished and serious writer, dealing
with big issues: life, death, sorrow, the inner consciousness,
yet there is a bubble of gaiety, a vitality, never far from the
surface. His words have the power to transform the dullest
objects into something beautiful, to give meaning to
everyday lives. ––Fiona Kidman
No New Zealand poet uses symbol and image more
magically and tenderly than Michael Harlow. In poems that
range from lyrics to his superlative prose poems there is
always the underpinning knowledge of how words begin
their attraction for one another. And how we owe our
salvation to them. ––Elizabeth Smither
This is a big book, generous in scope, expansive in what it
brings shape to. The word ‘achievement’ properly carries
with it what Harlow has declared his credo – ‘the rich
delight’ as he calls it, of a poet’s ‘looking-out and listening-in
for a language to say something about how mysterious we
are to ourselves and to the world’. ––Vincent O’Sullivan

Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00