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Michael Sharkey

Michael Sharkey

About Michael Sharkey

Michael Sharkey lives at Armidale, NSW; he has published several collections of poems and has edited magazines and anthologies. He taught literature and writing at universities in Australia, New Zealand, China and Europe until 2010. Poems are featured on the Poetry Archive (UK) and lyrikline (Germany).



Tales Out of School (2): A Gift for Teaching

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Michael Sharkey

The Guru, Mister Whatsup, Oblomov, The Sleeping Beaut, and Madame Lash and the Vampire Bat are ensconced in the Common Room when Mrs Ick Deen harrumphs in with the Pickled Dill and the Human Egg for the Weekly Discipline get-together …

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Tales Out of School (1): He Says, She Says

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Michael Sharkey

‘I’d like to know’, says the girl who intends to be married in autumn, ‘if heaven is true and it’s made up of people like us’. And she got married too. And the boy sitting next to her says, ‘I …

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A Double Abecedary on Tertiary Teaching

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Michael Sharkey

Academically speaking, teaching’s really spaz But who expects to make an impression when every Contact confirms your sense that your life is under a hex. Don’t give up yet though; for all you know, Education theorists may one day tumble …

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A.D. Malley: A New Ballade of the Words of Yesteryear

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Michael Sharkey

Opposite Sydney School of Arts the wowser slakes his shameful lust with the debauchees of gin and lime enchanted by their sirens’ wail. At length he slopes toward his bed with dreams of Lilith in his head. Where are the …

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