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Shey has a distinguished track-record of short-listings and publications. The Hum Hearers was short-listed for the Dorothy Hewett Award, individual poems have been noticed in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Woorilla Poetry Prize and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, among others.
Like all truly satisfying works of art, Al is in possession of an auteur vision. He’s managed to pull all the disparate and quirky aspects of his reading and dreaming life (dreams are very important in this book) – he’s managed to pull all that into a persuasive whole, into poems that are small journeys, atmospheres or theatres through which a reader can roam.
When you read these books you’ll see that the work is supported by a network of women sharing their work – the Saturday Writing Sisters – and also women critiquing and editing each other’s work.