Research Catalog

Title

• The poetic eye : occasional writings 1982-2012 / Michael Sharkey ; edited by Gordon Collier.

Author

Sharkey, Michael, 1946-

Publication

• Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Collier, Gordon

Description

xviii, 659 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

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), under-represented 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, schools, and cultural organizations in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Germany. It also evidences Sharkey's familiarity with literatures written in English and his wider career in publishing, editing, free-lance journalism, and the promotion of Australian and New Zealand literature, especially poetry.

Series Statement

• Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 194

Uniform Title

Cross/cultures 194.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Australian poetry
• Australian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Australian poetry > 21st century > History and criticism
• Poetry
• Poetry > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1 (1979-90): Romantic Hangover in Australian Poetry?; Out of Time ; New Zealand City Streets and Gipsies on the Road ; Interview with Alan Wearne ; Pulling in a Trojan Horse ; The Politics of Poetry ; Beyond the Jindyworobaks ; Storming the Teacups (Again) ; Fading Shadows ; Clear, Timeless Opus ; Minority Groups Like the Living ; Imperial Nigrescences ; The Persistence of Mallarmé ; Starting from Ulverstone ; The Myth of the New and Others ; Interview with Geoff Goodfellow ; Something to Contribute: A Conversation ; Cold Turkey in the Cantina ; Poetry: The Melbourne Alternative ; Old Tricks Transformed ; First Thoughts on Everyday Rhetoric ; An Interview with Eric Beach ; VIP and Business-Class Poetry ; The Great Singer, Icon, and Enigma ; A Caution to Reviewers ; The Australian Fascisti ; The Jokes Just Get Verse and Verse ; An Interview with Shelton Lea ; Poetical Atlas of Political Diversity ; Passionate Complexity Among the Loco-Poetic ; Diverse Flights,
• Ethereal and Grounded ; You're Imagining It -- Part 2 (1990-2003): Stepping Back: A Word of (Auto)Biography ; Zora Cross's Entry into Australian Literature ; From Duty to Tribute ; The Poetry of Gwen Harwood ; David McKee Wright, Maorilander ; Mudrooroo Narogin and William Hart-Smith ; The Province of Every Person ; Cheer Up and Take It Lightly ; McCuaig Made Poetry Talk ; A Salom Course ; Ern Burial ; Black Stump or Burning Bush? ; This is Not a Review ; Celebrating the Poetry of the Ballad ; Voyaging Through Depths and Shallows ; In Celebration of Gwen Harwood ; Harris's Pavane ; Compassionate Intensity ; Goodfellow's Semaphore and Other Messages ; L'Chaim to Life ; Far Away From How it Looks at Home ; Dransfield Among the Biographers ; New Music ; Reviewing Now ; Parody and Co. ; Defending the Line of Wit ; More About Wit ; Poetic Voice ; The Ventriloquial Muse ; How Poetry Lines Up --
• Part 3 (2004-2012): The Question in Poetry ; Poetry and the Human Comedy ; The Poetry of Lauren Williams ; Byron's 'Deluge' ; John Tranter's "Australia Day" ; How Poets Work: A Personal Note (Because I Was Asked) ; How Do Poems Sound? ; "But Who Considers Woman Day by Day?" ; Starting from Melbourne ; A Touchstone in Auckland ; After Jerusalem ; Subtle Conversation ; Page's Primer ; Moving and Memorable ; Inhabiting a Poem ; Trans-Tasman Literary Relations ; The Rapture Endures -- Part 4 (The photograph as poem): "Something of Value": An Introduction to John Fields' 'Signature' Photographs.

ISBN

• 9789004336438
• 9004336435
• 9789004336476 (online) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9789004336438

OCLC

965788555

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library