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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Cold Turkey in Cantina
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'I don't suppose there was ever a time  when poets weren't concerned to make a splash among their friends and in society with their writings. I base this remark on some familiarity with comments by Persius, Horace, Martial, and a number of Greek and Chinese writers, who all appear to lament their craft's having fallen on lean times, or who make reference - usually dismissive -  to less skilful contemporaries. In an era when Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love were not admired traits in an individual, this might have done well enough. but the persistence of an element of competition among poets in particular leads me to wonder why it should be so, throughout the Renaissance and an Age of Enlightenment down to our own age.'  (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'.

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    Netherlands : Brill , 2016
    pg. 156-166
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