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Lauren Williiams was ten years old when the poets of the 'Generation of '681 were forming their networks through poetry readings, the creation of small magazines, a takeover of the important Poetry Magazine, and entry into the mainstream by way of appearance in Poetry Australia and older established literary magazines. Robert Adamson and John Tranter in Sydney, Richard Tipping in South Australia, and Kris Hemensley and Robert Kenny in Melbourne characteristically printed their own work and that of their friends in such magazines as New Poetry (the transformed, American poetry-inflected successor to the Poetry Society of Australia's Poetry Magazine), Free Grass, Transit, Mok, Our Glass, Auk, and Flagstones. These male-initiated (and male-dominated) publications were unlike the more staid, university-connected literary magazines of the period: Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, and Westerly. They expressed a dissident response to the still generally English-oriented and nativist Australian traditions distinguished by emulation of long-revered or contemporary English verse, composition of ambitious versified epics of discovery, and lingering ballad and realist verse that reflected what would now be called post-colonial Australian poetry. Many of the 'new' Australian poets also wrote in ignorance of conventional Australian modes: younger Australians were starting to look further than England for models, at a time when American popular culture was invading Australian homes and American reactions to the Vietnam War were mirrored by Australians' divided loyalties to their American allies.' (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. 464-474
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