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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Cheer Up
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'This book sets me between a rock and a hard place. Any consideration of sob Brissenden invites grateful acknowledgment of his gifts to reader and listeners over many years. This selection of poems for this volume was complete when illness when Illness woumd up his affairs. Regrettably. the selection is still far from complete. A really comprehensive anthology of light verse has been long overdue.  So has an expansive essay on the very nature of the beauty and anything Brissenden had to say about it would have been generous and distinguished by his authority as a writer of light verse.' (Introduction)
 

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Alternative title: Cheer Up and Take It Lightly
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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 140 May 1992 Z610926 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 56-58
  • Appears in:
    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. 308-311
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