About

Michael Haig has been publishing poetry, fiction and criticism since the early 1980s. He was first published in Neos, a magazine for young writers, then in Quadrant, Poetry Australia, and other Australian literary magazines and journals. He was actively involved with the Sydney University Poetry Society during the 1980s and was published in their 1984 anthology, The Kommon Sense Poetry Booque. He was also published in the Mattara Poetry Prize anthology for 1984, Neither Nuked nor Crucified and the Angus &  Robertson anthology, Australian Poetry 1986. He studied at Cambridge from 1985 to 1987 and while at Cambridge was awarded the Arthur Macquarie Travelling Scholarship from Sydney University, a scholarship for a practicing poet or sculptor. He studied law from 1989 to 1991 and was involved in acting and writing for the university law revues. Since that time he has lived abroad in the United Kingdom and has continued to publish in Australian magazines and has taken part in readings.

Proudly published by Post Pressed

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Reviews

A first book full of poems of promise and achievement — a most auspicious beginning.

—Vivian Smith

Michael Haig's is a poetry that wants innocence. It has a capacity to recreate perception so that it is fresh and immediate, yet it also has a feeling for deprivation. Whether they seek to celebrate or console, so many of these poems are

'like hands lifting
water to drink'.

—Noel Rowe

The poems are clear and easy to read, yet having subtleties and a sophistication of expression which will carry the reader well beyond any literal or realistic surface... It is a poetry of personal experience, catching the processes of personal awareness finely...

—James Tulip

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Extract

Dawn

The fog has been and gone
and left its dew;

now trees shake gently,
companionable with wind;

and light, light is there as ever,
leaning elbows on the sills of windows

staring in.

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