How Poets Work : Michael Sharkey single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 How Poets Work : Michael Sharkey
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'I live in a town of twenty-five thousand citizens. A few of them know I write poetry. Some of them know what I write and like things that I write, but far fewer, including most of my students, read poetry. I sometimes think it odd that students who enrol to study literature inform me that they want to be teachers, but they don't like the act of reading or writing. That's their prerogative, and peer pressure and public dismissal of the arts and humanities conspire to encourage them to be philistine in their taste for a while, but it makes the business of encouraging them to see any merit in writing a challenging one.' (Introduction) 
 

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Five Bells vol. 14 no. 4 Spring 2007 Z1483373 2007 periodical issue 2007 pg. 46-48
  • Appears in:
    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. 494-498
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