Sweeping the courtyard : the selected poems of Michael Harlow.

From poetry: Edges (1974) -- Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade (1980) -- Today is the Piano's Birthday (1981) -- Vlaminck's Tie (1985) -- Giotto's Elephant (1991) -- Cassandra's Daughter (2005, 2006) -- The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap (2009) -- PROSE: Take a Risk, Trust Your Language, Make a Poem (1986) -- Heavy Traffic in the Dark: Filmscript with Stephanie Donald (1991) -- Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Place of the Imagination, the Imagination of Place, first published in Spanish Translation as Poesía y Psicoanálisis: Lugar de Imaginación, Imaginación del Lugar) (2006) --

From texts/libretti with composer Kit Powell: Stone Poem (1976) -- Devotion to the Small (1980) -- Texts for Composition (1981) -- Poem then, for love (1983) -- Nelson Songs (1986) -- Stations of the Clock (1986) -- Les Épisodes, Conversation with Questions (1987) -- Father's Telescope (1989) -- The Green Man (1989) -- Today is the Piano's Birthday (2005) -- The Tower of Babel (2006) -- Missa Profana/Missa Natura (2009) -- Microzoic Piano Suite (2012).--Publisher's information.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sweeping the courtyard -- The nannies are coming! -- Edges -- 'say simply a kind of perfection' -- Kite -- Design -- Minoan sonnet -- The book of quiet -- The identikit -- The Parson's sermon -- The report -- The feet and a fit of shoes -- The albums of youf lady tourists -- In the head of the axe -- The door -- Nothing but Switzerland and lemonade -- Inside the question that has not yet been asked -- Today is the piano's birthday -- The final arrangement -- The witness chair -- Brief history of the jackboot -- Pace, Voltaire: question & reply -- Anecdotal aesthetics in Athens -- Paschal transfiguration -- Not less by dreaming more -- Devotion to the small -- Ein programm sonnet for the 21st century -- Composition in glass, for -- Texts for composition -- Vlaminck's tie -- In flight (after Berryman) -- Gossipmonger -- 'Dressed to kill'/a valediction -- Pensioners -- 'For words are persons' -- The war of course is elsewhere -- Parallax poem for the co-incident -- Missing the mark -- Printed matter/ein Freudscher Verschreiber -- Roman soldiers, a narrative -- No problem, but not easy -- 'Talking at the boundary' -- How nice -- Stop-time, Galata Kebabçi/Dunedin -- In which -- Sarabande andante -- Xenophon's dog -- Squaring the circle -- Giotto's elephant -- On the Côte d'Azur -- Necromatic interlude -- In the black box -- Oh, what a fetish -- Apocalyptic greeting card: hello, goodbye -- Fix it -- 'But the gate of heaven is everywhere' -- Spoons -- Cassandra's daughter -- And, yes -- La trapéziste -- Longing for harmonies, lettre de Menton -- Question -- Learning the language -- 'Cremation blues' -- Conversation -- Song, for two players -- Metamorphosis -- Nocturne -- Detour -- Night sister -- On day-release -- The insomnia notebook, 4 am -- 'I am a tyger' -- RSVP -- 'But life goes on' -- Evangelical 'high roller' -- Moving the dirt -- Reading Mandelstam -- Opening the book -- A shout -- In a field of snow -- Lovers' quarrel -- All about the world -- Canticle -- Beat the pot and sing -- Look, a round -- Icing on the cake, with God and Darwin -- The waywardness of words -- Heavy traffic in the dark -- Translating Narcissus -- 'Heart absolutely I can' -- Billet-doux -- The world also is a place -- The tram conductor's blue cap -- Waiting -- 'Bride with beautiful feet' -- The light is dark enough -- Our undertaker as fallen angel -- On the fault line -- The longest day of the year -- The return -- Death duties -- Nightmare -- Los hombres verdes -- On looking in the lost and found -- Taking a line for a walk -- The invisible reader.