{"product_id":"foliage-in-the-underworld-by-michael-sharkey-9781925780604","title":"Foliage in the Underworld","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Duwell wrote in \u003ci\u003eAustralian Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy Fisher wrote in the journal Text that Sharkey \"has the rare ability to reach into our national psyche and pull out the ugly centre yet not rail at the horror of it all\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince relinquishing editorship of the \u003ci\u003eAustralian Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharkey has published \u003ci\u003eMany Such as She: an anthology of Australian Victorian Women Poets of World War One\u003c\/i\u003e (2018, revised edition 2019) with Walleah Press, Hobart. The present collection, \u003cem\u003eFoliage in the Underworld\u003c\/em\u003e, gathers and sometimes revises poems from stray, current, or hard-to-find sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424155746540,"sku":"9781925780604","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780604.jpg?v=1774769040","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/foliage-in-the-underworld-by-michael-sharkey-9781925780604","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}