Poetry

Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey

Item: Another Fine Morning in Paradise
Author: Paul Hetherington

by Paul Hetherington •

July–August 2012, no. 343

5 Islands Press, $24.95 pb, 100 pp, 9780734047458

Poetry

Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey

by Paul Hetherington •

July–August 2012, no. 343

The variety of Australian poetry is attested to by books such as Another Fine Morning in Paradise. Neither entirely fish nor fowl, it is by turns satirical, watchful, effusive, and lyrical. Its central preoccupation is with a sharp-eyed scrutiny of what might be called the-idea-of-a-better-life.

Paul Hetherington

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Paul Hetherington has published seventeen volumes of poetry and prose poetry and won or been nominated for more than forty national and international awards and competitions, recently winning the 2021 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. He co-wrote Prose Poetry: An introduction (Princeton, 2020), and co-edited Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP, 2020). He is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra.