After serving as a pyrotechnics supervisor for acts such as Metallica and Janet Jackson, David Howard collaborated with photographer Fiona Pardington, How To Occupy Our Selves (2003).The opening poem There You Go was set for mezzosoprano, reciter and piano trio by the Czech composer Marta Jirackova. In 2007 David collaborated with Brina Jez-Brezavscek on a sound installation in northern Slovenia. He was the inaugural recipient of the New Zealand Society of Authors' Mid-Career Writer's Award (2009). The Incomplete Poems (Cold Hub Press, 2011) collects work written between 1976 and 2010
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