SHARKEY, Michael | Many Such as She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World One | poetry | ISBN 978 1 877010 897 | 314 pgs | May 2019| $27.50

SHARKEY, Michael | Many Such as She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World One | poetry | ISBN 978 1 877010 897 | 314 pgs | May 2019| $27.50This volume samples the poetry of twenty four poets associated with the State of Victoria who were publishing significant work during the First World War. The collection is as much a social and cultural map of womens attitudes and occupations as it is a poetry anthology. Short accounts of the poets lives and their publishing history provide insights into the way the War shaped their everyday concerns. The book expands common notions of what