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Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, N.S.W. and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. He won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for 1999, and is an editorial assistant at Meanjin. His poems are forthcoming in Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Southern Review, Cordite, Verse, and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets; he is currently drafting a novel. His overseas publications include Spit and The Kit-Cat Review in the USA, and Printout in New Zealand. Michael has two poems and a memoir of Marianne Moore forthcoming in Verse, and has read on 5UV in Adelaide. He has written and directed a play which was performed at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and has also written other performance works. His major formative literary influences include Joyce, Brecht, Stein and cummings, the surrealists; later O'Hara, Ashbery, Perec and the Language poets. Otherwise he has been greatly influenced by New Musical Express, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Warhol and people like Rauschenberg. Not fogetting movies and Madonna. Michael spent much of his childhood on a farm, the reality coloured by a rural mythology provided by his grandparents and that is the rock upon which the (catholic) church of his poetry is based. |
