A/Prof Michael Sharkey is an Australia

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n poet. Sharkey studied at the University of Sydney

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, where he was awarded a BA, and then he completed his doctorate at the University of Auckland

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Biography

Sharkey is a prolific editor and reviewer of Australian poetry and journalism, having published over 600 works. In 1981, Sharkey won the H.M. Butterley - F. Earle Hooper Memorial Award for Days of Philangering : A Fortenight [sic] of Poems (to the Memory of J.K. Baxter) Five years later, Sharkey was joint winner of the Overland Competition, for his The Bullocky to His Creator.

Personal life

Sharkey lives in Armidale, NSW. He is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and American Literature at the School of English, Communication and Theatre at UNE. He is currently the coordinator for units such as ENCO 326 Persuading the Public: Rhetoric in Public Affairs, among others, at UNE.

Selected bibliography

• 2007, The Sweeping Plain, Melbourne, Five Islands Press.
• 2006, 'Byron's Deluge: Heaven and Earth', The Byron Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 35–48.
• 2005, with Belmont, W., The Easy Writer: Formal English for Academic Purposes, Sydney, Pearson Education.
• 2002, History: Selected Poems 1978-2000, Wollongong, Five Islands Press.
• 2001, 'Class of his Own: Francis Adams, Fiction and Biography', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 104–110.
• 2001, Poems 2001, Armidale, Kardoorair.
• 2000, Park, Armidale, Kardoorair.
• 1998, Libretto for Rolf Gehlhaar: Waiting for Rain: 10 Songs to Poems by Michael Sharkey, Feedback Studio Verlag, Köln
• 1996, Waiting for Rain: More Love Poems, Armidale, Kardoorair
• 1995, Strange Journey: Poems, Armidale, Kardoorair
• 1994, Look, He Said: Poems 1994, Armidale, Kardoorair
• 1991, Alive in Difficult Times: Poems 1985-1991, Armidale, Kardoorair
• 1988, (Ed.) An Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour, Melbourne, Oxford University Press
• 1984, The Way It Is: Selected Poems, Toowoomba, Darling Downs Institute Press
• 2001, 'David McKee Wright as Literary Editor of the Bulletin', A History of the Book in Australia 1891-1945: A National Culture in a Colonised Market, ed. Martyn Lyons & John Arnold, University of Queensland Press, pp. 49–50
• 1996, (with Horgan, M.), 'Vision Splendid or Sandy Blight? The Lawson-Paterson Debate', The 1890s: Australian Literature and Literary Culture, ed. Ken Stewart, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 66–94
• 1995, '"O Rare Young Man": David McKee Wright's Bulletin Debates with Jack Lindsay 1922-1925', Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, ed. Susan Lever & Catherine Pratt, ASAL and Department of English, ADFA, Canberra, pp. 1–6
• 1994, '"Dear Beppo": Recuperating Margaret Fane', Wallflower and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia 1910-1945, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 115–132
• 1993, 'Introduction to Lennie Lower's "Here's Luck"', Lennie Lower: He Made a Nation Laugh, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, pp. v-xi

External links

• http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$Se