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'Patterns of Being is a fictional narrative in open verse. The story is told by Annie, who recalls her childhood trauma and imagines the remembrances of Lilly, her aunt and Aril, a nymph-like girl who moves through dimensions of time and space. The poetry conjures the landscape of South Australia; its beaches, small country towns and mallee scrubland. Annie constructs a unique world view for survival.'
Source: Back-cover blurb.
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A novel in verse form.
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Three Poetry Books
2017
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'Michael Sharkey has long been known as one of Australia’s most congenial, collegial, and agile poets and literary critics. One might have expected this anthology to be an assemblage of various tribute and assessments, all done with the urbanity and goodwill long known to be Sharkey’s hallmark. What a surprise, then, to realise that this collection, though indeed various, generous, and informative, tinged throughout with what Gordon Collier, in his preface to the book, calls Sharkey’s ‘evanescently ironical’ but not ‘acidulous’ personality (ix), is really dedicated to one theme: the shared cultural practices of Australia and New Zealand.' (Introduction)
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Three Poetry Books
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'Michael Sharkey has long been known as one of Australia’s most congenial, collegial, and agile poets and literary critics. One might have expected this anthology to be an assemblage of various tribute and assessments, all done with the urbanity and goodwill long known to be Sharkey’s hallmark. What a surprise, then, to realise that this collection, though indeed various, generous, and informative, tinged throughout with what Gordon Collier, in his preface to the book, calls Sharkey’s ‘evanescently ironical’ but not ‘acidulous’ personality (ix), is really dedicated to one theme: the shared cultural practices of Australia and New Zealand.' (Introduction)
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