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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Sleeping Alone
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Notes

  • Launched 16 October 2008 at Daltons Bookshop, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
  • Dedication: For Pam.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Indigo , 2008 .
      Extent: 75p.
      ISBN: 9781740274982

Works about this Work

From Bereavement to Immanence and Beyond : The Poetry of Michael Thorley John Beston , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 30 no. 2 2016; (p. 394-404)

'Michael Thorley is a Canberra poet who published an impressive book of poems,Sleeping Alone, in 2008 and who expects to publish a second shortly. His plans to publish another book of poems last year were set aside  by the illness and death of his younger brother, for whom he was caregiver. He was born in Tamworth NSW in 1945 and was educated there through high school, going on to study piano and musical education at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. He was conscripted for two years in 1966 during then Vietnam War but was not sent overseas. In 1968 he commenced an arts degree at Sydney University, graduating in 1972 with honours in psychology. He worked first as a school counselor, then as a district guidance officer in Queanbeyan, which borders Canberra. He and his partner, Pam SIoan lived there for twenty years until her death in 2000.' (Introduction)

New Poetry Reviewed Michael Byrne , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , June no. 30 2009; (p. 33-41)

— Review of The Glass Violin P. S. Cottier , 2008 selected work poetry ; Silver Cord Brenda Eldridge , 2009 selected work poetry ; Luscious Glass Cage Jessica Raschke , 2008 selected work poetry ; Moments of Perfect Poise Gillian Telford , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone Michael Thorley , 2008 selected work poetry
Poets Caught between Land and Sea and Cultures Peter Pierce , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 2008; (p. 15)

— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies John Jenkins , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone Michael Thorley , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Kingsbury Tales Yu Ouyang , 2008 selected work poetry ; Buoyancy Louise Oxley , 2008 selected work poetry
Poets Caught between Land and Sea and Cultures Peter Pierce , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 2008; (p. 15)

— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies John Jenkins , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone Michael Thorley , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Kingsbury Tales Yu Ouyang , 2008 selected work poetry ; Buoyancy Louise Oxley , 2008 selected work poetry
New Poetry Reviewed Michael Byrne , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , June no. 30 2009; (p. 33-41)

— Review of The Glass Violin P. S. Cottier , 2008 selected work poetry ; Silver Cord Brenda Eldridge , 2009 selected work poetry ; Luscious Glass Cage Jessica Raschke , 2008 selected work poetry ; Moments of Perfect Poise Gillian Telford , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone Michael Thorley , 2008 selected work poetry
From Bereavement to Immanence and Beyond : The Poetry of Michael Thorley John Beston , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 30 no. 2 2016; (p. 394-404)

'Michael Thorley is a Canberra poet who published an impressive book of poems,Sleeping Alone, in 2008 and who expects to publish a second shortly. His plans to publish another book of poems last year were set aside  by the illness and death of his younger brother, for whom he was caregiver. He was born in Tamworth NSW in 1945 and was educated there through high school, going on to study piano and musical education at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. He was conscripted for two years in 1966 during then Vietnam War but was not sent overseas. In 1968 he commenced an arts degree at Sydney University, graduating in 1972 with honours in psychology. He worked first as a school counselor, then as a district guidance officer in Queanbeyan, which borders Canberra. He and his partner, Pam SIoan lived there for twenty years until her death in 2000.' (Introduction)

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