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Manuscript Name | Papers of Michael Sharkey |
Manuscript Number | MSS 043 |
Last Updated | October 2021 |
Extent | 4 boxes + 1 folio |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Literary papers, including drafts of poetry and interviews, correspondence, and other papers. |
Literary
A collection of literary papers of Michael Sharkey, created between 1975 and 1988. The collection mostly consists of Sharkey’s correspondence, including with publishers. The collection also includes drafts and a transcript of Sharkey’s interview with Shelton Lea, published in Southerly in 1989.
1974 - 1988
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sharkey
Michael Sharkey is an Australian poet, writer and editor. He received his BA from the University of Sydney (1972) and a PhD on Lord Byron from the University of Auckland (1976), before going on to lecture in literature at a range of universities, including Sydney University (1972 - 1973) and Bond University (1989-1990). Most recently, he was Associate Professor at the University of New England from 1992-2010.
He has written prolifically, with over 700 publications to his name, including Woodcuts (1978), Alive in Difficult Times (1991), The Sweeping Plain (2007). He has contributed to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and written essays published in a wide range of academic and other publications.
In 1979, he established the Fat Possum Press in Armidale with Winifred Belmont in order to publish the work of writers in New England and other rural areas. He edited Kangaroo, the literary supplement to the New England student magazine Neucleus, 1979-1982. Sharkey has also been the editor for Ulitarra (1996-2000) and Australian Poetry Journal (2014-2016).
Sharkey has received a number of awards for poetry, including being joint winner of the Overland Competition in 1986 for ‘The Bullocky to His Creator’ and joint winner of the Grace Leven Poetry Prize in 2012 for Another Fine Morning in Paradise.
References:
Author record, Michael Sharkey, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14914 16/01/2019].
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: No copying is approved.
Papers of Michael Sharkey, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 43, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
The collection was acquired from Michael Sharkey in five consignments.
Australian poetry, poets, Australian poets, 20th century poetry, Australian essayists, essayists, Australian academics, academics, biographers
Michael Sharkey 1946-
Michael Francis Sharkey
AD Malley
Poet, writer, academic, essayist, biographer
Folder 1
Notes from Michael Sharkey accompanying correspondence
Robert D. Hume : ‘The Development of English Drama, 17th Century
Folder 2
Bibliography 2 - ‘On Writing’.
Folder 3
Miscellaneous papers.
Folder 4
Correspondence from Ian Hartley
Folder 5
Correspondence: 1974 - 1976
Folder 6
Correspondence: 1977
Folder 7
Correspondence: 1978
Folder 8
Correspondence: 1979
Folder 9
Correspondence: 1980
Folder 10
Correspondence: 1981
Folder 11
Correspondence: 1981
Folder 12
Correspondence: 1982
Folder 13
Correspondence: 1982
Folder 14
Correspondence: 1983
Folder 15
Correspondence: 1983
Folder 16
Correspondence: 1983
Folder 17
Correspondence: 1983
Folder 18
Correspondence: 1984
Folder 19
Correspondence: 1984
Folder 20
Correspondence: 1984
Folder 21
Correspondence: 1985
Folder 22
Correspondence: 1985
Folder 23
Correspondence: 1985
Folder 24
Correspondence: 1985
Folder 25
Anything Goes – poetry
Folder 26
Shelton Lea – interview with Michael Sharkey
Correspondence – responses to proposals to publish:
Literary draft:
(Published: Michael Sharkey (1989) ‘An interview with Shelton Lea’ in Southerly, vol. 49, no. 4, Dec 1989: 560-580)
Folio 1
Copies of Kangaroo, 1979 - 1985