Martin Harrison (poet)
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Martin Harrison (1949 – 6 September 2014) was an Anglo-Australian poet.[1]
Born and educated in
Harrison's 1997 poetry collection The Kangaroo Farm (
Harrison wrote extensively about Australian poetry. Some of his essays are collected in the internationally acclaimed volume Who Wants to Create Australia? (Halstead Press). This book was a
Harrison's poetry has been translated into Mandarin (A Kangaroo Farm trans Shaoyang Zhang, Jiangsu, Nanjing 2008) and into French.
There is a wide range of critical commentary on Harrison's work, principally in Australian and some UK journals. In the main, these views focus either on the detailed micro-perceptual approach to
On 8 September 2014, Susan Wyndham reported in the
On 1 November 2014, Cordite Poetry Review republished a 1998 interview Harrison did with Sydney poet Adam Aitken, one of five or fewer Harrison interviews known to exist.
Works
- Leisure: Poems, Limited Edition, illustr. Denise Riley, Great Works, London 1978.
- Truce: Poems, Limited Letterpress Edition, Alan Loney's Hawk Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979.
- 1975: Poems, Limited Edition, Ferry Press, London, 1980.
- The Distribution of Voice: Poems, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1993
- The Kangaroo Farm, Paper Bark Press, Brooklyn, New South Wales, 1997.
- Summer, Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 2001.
- Our ABC: A Dying Culture, Currency House, Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 2004.
- Who wants to Create Australia? Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia, Halstead, Sydney, Australia, 2004.
- Music: Poems and Prose, Vagabond Press, Newtown, New South Wales, 2005.
- A Kangaroo Farm, trans Shaoyang Zhang, Jiang-su Literature and Art Publishing, Nanjing, 2008.
- Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, Western Australia, 2008.
- New and Selected Poems: Wild Bees, Shearsman Books, Exeter, England, 2008.
References
- ISBN 978-1-57113-349-6. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Morley, David, "on John F. Deane and Martin Harrison", Poetry Review, 99 (1)
- ^ "Philosopher-poet Martin Harrison spread happiness until the end". 8 September 2014.