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Title: | The Sweeping Plain | Contributor(s): | Sharkey, Michael (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5590 | Abstract: | Of Michael Sharkey's 2002 collection, 'History', Anne Kellas wrote, 'There's nothing false in 'History': layers, depths, echoes and literary structures show real poems, the genuine article. I am sure that spending more time with Sharkey could well make quite a few poets wake up a bit. Listen to what he says. How he says it. He is not playing around'. ('Blue Dog: Australian Poetry') Tim Thorne remarked, 'If anyone else has written poems about jokes, floors and Vegemite, I doubt whether they have done so as movingly or with as much insight into the human condition. "The triumph of the Takeaway: A Threnody for John Forbes" is the best poetic tribute to the late great poet I have seen. It ranks with Lowell's "Words for Hart Crane" as a latter day "Adonais" and, as with the best elegies or threnodies, it is about so much more than grief or praise, Sharkey is one of the most under-rated of contemporary Australian poets.' (Famous Reporter) | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Five Islands Press | Place of Publication: | Carlton, Australia | ISBN: | 0734036930 | Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature | HERDC Category Description: | A2 Authored Book - Other | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.fiveislandspress.com/previous%20books.html http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26728355 |
Extent of Pages: | 84 |
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