Sometimes the planets seem to line up and so it is with Michael Sharkey’s latest collection Another Fine Morning in Paradise. Rochford Street Review has been fortunate to be able to publish both a review by Heather Taylor Johnson and the Armidale launch speech by Anne Pender. These two views of Another Fine Morning in Paradise provides us with two different perspectives on the collection and will, hopefully, provoke some discussion – both on line and off.

• Pointing a Tongued Sword: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey
• Satire, Mischief and Joy: Anne Pender Launches Michael Sharkey’s Another Fine Morning in Paradise