Alan Wearne

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Alan Wearne
BornAlan Richard Wearne
(1948-07-23) 23 July 1948 (age 75)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pen nameWalker Norris
OccupationPoet, lecturer
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater Monash University
Period1971 – current

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

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Early life and education

Alan Wearne was born on 23 July 1948 [1] and grew up in Melbourne. [2] 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. [8] 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 [9] and the H. T. Priestly Medal. Despite this critical success neither book was promoted properly and both volumes ended up being pulped. [10] Shearsman Press in the UK has since republished the book in a single volume.[ citation needed ]

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

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References

  1. ↑ Maxine Beneba Clarke, "These things are real", The Saturday Paper, 3-9 February 2018, p. 30
  2. ↑ Alan Wearne Archived 2006-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (Australian Literature Resources) Accessed: 4-1-2007
  3. ↑ McCooey, David (1 January 2001). "An Interview with Laurie Duggan" (PDF). The Literary Review: 126–137.
  4. ↑ "Poets Union of New South Wales - records, 1977-2000". State Library of New South Wales . Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Alan Wearne". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "Guide to the Papers of Alan Wearne [MSS 334]". www.unsw.adfa.edu.au. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Winners of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 1979–2010" (PDF). NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  8. ↑ "Alan Wearne". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Awards". James Cook University . Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  10. ↑ Neil, Rosmary. Pulping our poetry ( The Australian ) Accessed 9-11-2009
  11. ↑ Alan Warne - Faculty of Creative Arts (University of Wollongong) Accessed 9-11-2009. (Dead link)
  12. ↑ "Alan Wearne". Centre for Stories. Retrieved 16 May 2022.

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