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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page
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'Geoff Page's selection of 'classic Australian' poem's's is a brave effort to display the development and achievement of a body or work that will bear comparison with any in the anglosphere. Page also claims to focus on poems that strike him as "unequivocally enjoyable, even if that enjoyment is sometimes hard-won." I doubt that all his readers will entirely agree. The book occupies a space somewhere along the spectrum of middle-school poetry text and teach-yourself poetry-appreciation manual. The same might be said of his 80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now. The structure of each is strikingly similar to Ruth Padel's 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, a concatenation of poems with commentary culled from her UK weekly Independent on Sunday column. Page and Padel are enthusiastic teachers, but the whiff of the classroom is palpable in their methodological rigour and tone.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature no. 9 2009 Z1605882 2009 periodical issue 2009
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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'.

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Netherlands : Brill , 2016
    pg. 563-569

Works about this Work

Untitled Robert Savage , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , December no. 18 2009;

— Review of 60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page Michael Sharkey , 2009 single work review
Untitled Robert Savage , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , December no. 18 2009;

— Review of 60 Classic Australian Poems by Geoff Page Michael Sharkey , 2009 single work review
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