A Wind Harp
When leading New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen reads her work, audiences are captivated not only by the accessibility and range of her poems, but also by the drama and musicality of her performance.
That strength is captured in this sound recording. A Wind Harp features the voice and lyrics of Cilla McQueen, supported by original music from Dunedin musicians The Blue Neutrinos.
A Wind Harp brings together work from twenty years of performance and publication, with poems selected from three of McQueen’s books: Axis (2001), Markings (2000), and Soundings (2002).
Designed as a companion to Fire-Penny, a collection of McQueen’s poems published in 2005.
Track listing
- Homing In
- The Rope
- Frogs
- Mungo
- Silver
- Crikey
- Warp
- Time, on the Surface
- Studio Poem
- Benzina
- Recipe for One
- Quark Dance
- Luncheon Cove
- Living Here
- Knots
- Otherwise
- Weekend Sonnets, Careys Bay
- Death Finds the Bishop
- By the Water
- Warpath
Cilla McQueen
Cilla McQueen MNZM is a poet, teacher and artist, and a three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. She received an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Otago in 2008 and was New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2011. In 2010 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (Poetry). In 2020 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a poet. Cilla lives in Bluff, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.
More About Cilla McQueen
Fire-Penny 
Axis 
Soundings 
Markings 
Poeta 
The Radio Room 
In a Slant Light 
Edwin’s Egg and Other Poetic Novellas