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| Rob Harle |
Rob
Harle is a writer, editor, artist and reviewer - born in Sydney Australia,
August 1948.
Writing
work includes poetry, short fiction stories, academic essays, and reviews of
scholarly books, journals and papers. His work is published in journals,
anthologies, online reviews, books and he has two volumes of his own poetry
published – Scratches & Deeper Wounds (1996) and Mechanisms of Desire
(2012). Recent poetry has been published in: Rupkatha Journal (Kolkata); Nimbin
Good Times (Nimbin); Beyond The Rainbow
(Nimbin); Poetic Connections
Anthology; Indo-Australian
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry; Rhyme With Reason Anthology); Asian
Signature; Muse India; Voices Across The Ocean Anthology); Episteme Journal);
Indo-Australian Anthology of Short Fiction. LIRJELL Journal; Homeward Bound
Anthology; Voices Across Generations Anthology. World Poetry Yearbook.
(2014);Temptations (2016); Taj Mahal Review.
His
past art practice was sculpture, then digital-computer art both for the web and
print. His giclée images have been exhibited widely and featured both in, and
as the covers, of various literary journals and anthologies.
Formal
studies include Comparative Religion, Philosophy, Literature and Psychotherapy
- his thesis concerned Freud's notion of the subconscious and its relationship
with Surrealist poetry.
Rob's
main concern has been to explore and document the radical changes technology is
bringing about. He coined the term technoMetamorphosis to describe this. This
past concern is now moving towards helping to restore our abandoned
metaphysical and spiritual modes of being through literature especially poetry.
He
is currently a member of: Leonardo Book Review Panel. Manuscript reviewer for
Leonardo Journal. Advising Editor for the Journal of Trans-technology Research,
(UK); Advisory Editor for Phenomenal Literature, (India); Member of Editorial
Board for: Episteme Journal, (Bharat
College, India); International Journal on Multicultural Literature(India);
LIRJELL, (Lingayas University, India); Ars Artium (India); Iris (India); Daath
Voyage (India).
Full
Publications, Reviews and selected writings are available from: www.robharle.com
Artwork
from: www.robharle.com/retro