Michael Sharkey

Re-collected over six decades, these love poems show Michael Sharkey to be a true master of the sonnet form. They demonstrate Sharkey the poet at his very best, not only dextrous, but generous, touching, wide-ranging and surprising. The poems are as manifold as there are different kinds of love: erotic, romantic, familial, and friendship. This book is destined to become...

Martin Duwell wrote in Australian Poetry Review that "Sharkey's project seems to be built on a desire to make poetry once more (or more satisfactorily) deal with life as a socially lived phenomenon," and that "not many people are writing so well and so humorously about the Australia we inhabit". Jeremy Fisher wrote in the journal Text that Sharkey "has...