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423681
  • Title
    Michael Sharkey - letters received, 1986-1987
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MLMSS 8654
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1986-1987
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    423681
  • Physical Description
    0.33 metres of textual material (2 boxes)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Michael Sharkey, poet, was born in Sydney in 1946 and has worked as a government clerk, labourer, school-teacher, editor, and freelance journalist. He has taught literature at several universities in Australia, New Zealand, and China. He has taught writing in prisons, run his own poetry press, been a Writer-in-the-Community in two states, and is a reviewer for a number of Australian newspaper and magazines. He has also edited the work of several poets and novelists. Since Sharkey's first publication in 1978, Michael has written more than twenty collections of poetry, and has his poems published in over three dozen anthologies.

    Reference:
    http://www.michaelsharkeypoet.com/about.php (accessed 13/08/2012)
  • Scope and Content
    Michael Sharkey letters received, 1986-1987 in 4 bound volumes, including letters and cards received from his daughter, mother and aunt, from friends and acquaintances, from fellow poets, from translators, composers and journal editors. Correspondents include Alan Wearne, Bruce Dawe, Tim Thorne, Antigone Kefala, Nancy Keesing, Carmel Bird, Shane McCauley, Paul Kavanagh, Stephen Murray-Smith, Elaine Lindsay, John Millett, Barret Reid, Gwen Kelly.

    BOX 1
    Michael Sharkey correspondence, 1986 (2 vol.)

    BOX 2
    Michael Sharkey correspondence, 1987 (2 vol.)
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
    Approval for reproduction required
  • Description source

    Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2012-2013
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Bound volumes include Geoffrey Cains bookplate on cover verso
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