Tag: Lee Sharkey

  • I Will Not Name It Except to Say by Lee Sharkey: A Poetry Review by Robert Dunsdon

    I Will Not Name It Except to Say by Lee Sharkey: A Poetry Review by Robert Dunsdon

    Young poets, hotheads newly converted and ablaze with ideas, crane their necks and clear their throats, eager for their song to be heard above all, while others further advanced polish their craft and are keen to cultivate an identity. They each have an insistent urge to tell of a discovery, a mystery, a moment of…

  • Walking Backwards, a poetry collection by Lee Sharkey, reviewed by Toti O’Brien

    Walking Backwards, a poetry collection by Lee Sharkey, reviewed by Toti O’Brien

    On the cover of Lee Sharkey’s Walking Backwards, an anonymous oil painting—“Pogroms”, circa 1915. A long line of people crosses from left to right—their clothes the same color of the background, as if the landscape had already started absorbing them, soon to entirely obliterate them. Two of the men look vacuously forward—not far, as their…