Discover the profound beauty of poetry with Michael Harlow's latest collection. **Nothing For It But To Sing** invites readers into a world where words serve as small detonations, releasing richly layered narratives that explore themes of psychological separations, memory, and desire. The unique dimensions of this paperback book (150 x 235 mm, 100 pages) offer a perfect reading experience, seamlessly blending Harlow's command of music and language with profound emotional depth. Delight in the exquisite phrasing that evokes feelings of love, loss, longing, and the complexity of identity. Each poem unravels with a delicate balance between sound and meaning, echoing the electrifying energy of human experience. Michael Harlow's work is not just a collection of poems; it's an exploration of the ineffable, carefully crafted to resonate with anyone who has grappled with the nuances of life. This beautifully honed collection, published by Otago University Press on 22-08-2016, is a must-have for poetry lovers seeking a profound connection with language.

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CONDITION: Brand New
Dimensions: 150 x 235 mm
Pages: 100
Bind: paperback
Author: Michael Harlow Publisher: Otago University Press
Publication Date: 22-08-2016

Michael Harlow’s poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire. 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 … Harlow is a poet with such a command of music, the dart and turn of movement in language, that he can get away with words that make us squirm in apprentice workshops or bad pop songs – heart, soul – and make them seem newly shone and psychically right. The work is sequined by sound, rather than running its meaning along the rigid rails of metre and end rhyme. The sway and surge of various meanings in the phrasing, and the way sense trails and winds over line breaks: this movement itself often evokes the alternating dark and electric energy of feelings like love, loss and the pain of absence. This is a beautifully honed new collection.

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