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Around exam time in 1982, late October or early November (it's hard to have assessment of hundreds of students papers on your mind, and the dole queue immediately following your contract's expiry) Barry Sergeant, Elias Levin, and other young writers and poets around the University of New England suggested over a beer or three in the Bistro that it would be a good idea to stage a reading by poets from the country, at the 1983 Festival of Sydney. The time was drawing near, and a hurried phone call and letter to John Moulton, the Festival's coordinator, brought the response 'Interested, very, but it's a little late; maybe the following Festival?" This was sufficient incentive to practise organizing writers all over the northwest and northeast of New South Wales for 1983, and to have some warm-up readings. After all, Armidale hardly lacks people who are, or who think they could be, poets. Over the past three years especially, links have been established with poets around Tamworth, Lismore, Bellingen, Byron Bay and elsewhere. It seemed a great idea to show Sydney people what sorts of talents were scattered about the hinterland and back-blocks. An active publishing scene has also established itself in Armidale through the efforts of Tony Bennett (Kardoorair Press), Don Gentle (Tap Danz Press), and Winifred Belmont and Michael Sharkey (Fat Possum Press), by way of displaying who's in locations alternative to the Sydney and Melbourne groups, and to the poets with national names who occasionally visit Armidale from Brisbane and other capitals. Armidale has a monthly poetry reading at the Wicklow Hotel, and many other regular readings besides the large event at the university's May vacation school. But enthusiasm isn't everything. Now read on.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Poetic Eye : Occasional Writings 1982-2012 Michael Sharkey , Netherlands : Brill , 2016 10632316 2016 selected work criticism

    'This volume contains a selection of the Australian poet Michael Sharkey’s uncollected essays and occasional writings on poetics and poets, chiefly Australian and New Zealand. Reviews and conversations with other poets highlight Sharkey’s concern with preserving and interrogating cultural memory and his engagement with the practice and championing of poetry. Poets discussed range from Lord Byron to colonial-era and early twentieth-century poets (Francis Adams, David McKee Wright, and Zora Cross), underrepresented Australian women poets of World War I, traditionalists and experimentalists, including several ‘New Australian Poetry’ activists of the 1970s, and contemporary Australian and New Zealand poets. Writings on poetics address form and tradition, the teaching and reception of poetry, and canon-formation. The collection is culled from commissioned and occasional contributions to anthologies of practical poetics, journals devoted to literary and cultural history and book reviewing, as well as newspaper and small-magazine features from the 1980s to the present. The writing reflects Sharkey’s poetic practice and pedagogy relating to the teaching of literature, rhetorical analysis, cultural studies, and writing in universities'.

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Netherlands : Brill , 2016
    pg. 62-68
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  • Northern New South Wales, New South Wales,
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