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Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright by Michael Sharkey

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October 2012, no. 345

Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright by Michael Sharkey

Puncher & Wattmann, $34.95 pb, 439 pp

Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright by Michael Sharkey

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October 2012, no. 345

David McKee Wright is a curious figure in Australian poetry – and in New Zealand poetry, for that matter. As editor of the Bulletin’s Red Page from 1916 to 1926, he was a well-liked and -respected figure in his own time (1869–1928), but he has seriously faded since. He is thinly represented in a number of anthologies, both here and in New Zealand, and was omitted altogether from Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann’s anthology Australian Poetry Since 1788 (2011).

Geoff Page reviews 'Apollo in George Street' by Michael Sharkey

Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright

by Michael Sharkey

Puncher & Wattmann, $34.95 pb, 439 pp

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