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• W285754044 abstract "Michael Sharkey's Another Fine Morning in Paradise is a book of astonished apprehending; these gobsmacked flights of non-fiction fantasy are loud with the klaxons of existential questioning, and Sharkey's alarms signal a particularly Australian malaise. These authentically desperate ontological pastorals manouvre less toward the aubade, mourning instead an exhausted romance with 'the People's Republic of No Problems' (55). This paradise is an Australia-as-failure, where the 'fun is obligatory, words for laughs' (55); in this place 'where nothing you'd think of occurs,/ and repeatedly' (25), the brute descendants of colonisers roam territories still largely unknown as the poet looks on, irascible and jocular, woe-filled while ode-ing knowingly.'The Garden of Earthly Delights', which opens the collection, is a swift meditation on the empty ambits of utopianism: how humdrum a place where everyone belongs to a leisure class of 'Trim-limbed men and women (who) spend their days at sport and picnics' (11), and where 'each tomorrow they would do the same again' (11). In this poem Sharkey exercises an uncanny gait across idealised territories where, soon enough within the impossible zones, 'they took a vote and ended' the equilibrium. From here the poems swirl closer to home, kinetic and energetically recording idiosyncratic movement -The Internet tour touts the local charm:the faux-Victorian veneer, detention centre-style motels,the yearly Festival of Car Yards, wine and waterfalls and sheep,a sky that's pink at five p.m., and trees that Godhas polished bright that shed their skin as if they're gladto see us watching, church bells banging weddings outthroughout weekends until the strike and humof workdays kicks back in and Heaven's once againremote, as Heaven should be (42)The themes here - weather and metaphysics, labour and pleasure, unions intimate and/or associative - map the logos of our weird shapes; within these sites, Sharkey is a meta-realist training a wry eye on the disequilibrium and dissembling. His critiques sharpened, we are the 'Objects In A Mirror (which) Are Closer Than They Appear' (50); the poet beholds our Antipodean, once-Edenic wrong-footedness where now 'our anthems are the hit tune of America' (45), and culture performs amid 'the smog-blurred ziggurats of cash' (64). These reflective texts are satirical, dystopian but never vituperative; in the readymade zones of colonisers-now-colonised -the bully winsthe money, girl and car and our applause.(50)At heart, these (mostly) heroic couplets interrogate sites of an inauthenticity that is loud with enculturated anti-heroism. Amid the 'MacFish' and 'Mack trucks' (51), antagonists are 'waking up and cannot face the ugly thing that's in the mirror' (80); these poems, then, are confrontations asking us to consider what passes as sustenance as instead a banality -we take communion in a box: the What's Your Beefand Squid Delicious, All of Italy to Go, the Randy Rooster'sbreasts you won't believe you've sunk your choppers into,and at John Frum's pub and discotheque,a complimentary always for a friend on Topless Nights. …" @default.
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• W285754044 title "Michael Sharkey, Another Fine Morning in Paradise (Five Islands Press, 2012)" @default.
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