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Alan Wearne
Birth Date:1948 7, df=y
Birth Place:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:Poet, lecturer
Nationality:Australian
Period:1971 – current
Birth Name:Alan Richard Wearne
Pseudonym:Walker Norris
Alma Mater:Monash University

Alan Wearne (born 23 July 1948) is an Australian poet.[1]

Early life and education

Alan Wearne was born on 23 July 1948[2] and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University, where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott.[3] He was involved in the Poets Union.[4]

Career

After publishing two collections of poetry, he wrote a verse novel, The Nightmarkets (1986), which won the Australian Book Council Banjo Award[5] and was adapted for performance with Monash University Student Theatre.[6]

His next book in the same genre, The Lovemakers, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the NSW Premier's Book of the Year in 2002,[7] as well as the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award. The first half of the novel was published by Penguin, and its second by the ABC in 2004 as The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing and co-won The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies' Colin Roderick Award[8] and the H. T. Priestly Medal. Despite this critical success neither book was promoted properly and both volumes ended up being pulped.[9] Shearsman Press in the UK has since republished the book in a single volume.[10]

These Things Are Real was published in 2017 by Giramondo Publishing.

Wearne lectured in Creative Writing[11] at the University of Wollongong until 2016.[12]

Books

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Austlit — Alan Wearne . Austlit. 12 June 2024.
  2. Maxine Beneba Clarke, "These things are real", The Saturday Paper, 3-9 February 2018, p. 30
  3. McCooey. David. 2001-01-01. An Interview with Laurie Duggan. The Literary Review. 126–137.
  4. Web site: Poets Union of New South Wales - records, 1977-2000. State Library of New South Wales. 19 February 2021.
  5. Web site: Alan Wearne . 2022-05-16 . Giramondo Publishing . en-AU.
  6. Web site: Guide to the Papers of Alan Wearne [MSS 334] ]. 2022-05-16 . www.unsw.adfa.edu.au . en.
  7. Web site: Winners of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 1979–2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110821164924/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/documents/PLA_Winners_1979-2010_update.pdf. 21 August 2011. 2020-01-06. NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
  8. Web site: Awards. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091027131335/http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/humanities/fals/JCUPRD_036167.html. 2009-10-27. 2021-01-06. James Cook University.
  9. Neil, Rosmary. Pulping our poetry (The Australian) Accessed 9-11-2009
  10. Web site: "National Literary Awards Results 2014" . Fellowship of Australian Writers, Vic. Inc.. 12 June 2024.
  11. https://misprd.uow.edu.au/ris_public/WebObjects/RISPublic.woa/wa/Staff/selectPerson?id=9552&group=55 Alan Warne - Faculty of Creative Arts
  12. Web site: Alan Wearne . 2022-05-16 . Centre for Stories . en-AU.

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