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CONTRIBUTORS
Alan Wearne
Alan Wearne Reviews Ross Gibson
This is a volume of (mainly) prose poems, derived by its compiler/adaptor/author Ross Gibson, from a large dossier of New South Wales Police records. If these can be described as ‘found’ poems (even if they have been edited) it would be as likely to refer to them as ‘accidental’.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Alan Wearne, Ross Gibson
Mixed Business
The speaker is… Reliable as anyone I’ve known, Bob Arnold is the kind of man for whom life works because (please excuse my sentimental aphorisms) he loves life’s work; he’s lucky too, since he makes his luck: wife, two girls, …
Posted in 62: MELBOURNE
Tagged Alan Wearne
NO THEME Editorial
The young PhD was applying for a ‘Theory for Practising Writers’ teaching position in a Creative Writing degree. He had devised a three year course, the first year of readings, lectures, tutorials and essays which though extending as far back …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Alan Wearne
Walker Norris: Magicked Away
“When D’arcy Niland’s novel The Shiralee came out in the mid-fifties, the Australian film industry was in its twenty-five year coma, but such was the book’s popularity that film rights were quickly snapped up by overseas interests and the film …
Posted in 42: CHILDREN OF MALLEY II
Tagged Alan Wearne
Ballade for Alan Gould
Alan Wearne is one of Australia's most important poets. He is one of the foremost exponents of the verse novel in the world. His works include The Nightmarkets and The Lovemakers: Volume 1 &2.
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
Tagged Alan Wearne
Girls on the Avenue
Read Alan Wearne's “My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man”, from our Driver issue.
Posted in 18: ROOTS
Tagged Alan Wearne
My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man
Alan Wearne is an internationally renowned poet and verse novelist. His book The Lovemakers won Book of the Year and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2002. Part Two of The Lovemakers is being published in 2004. He is a Melbourne poet who lives and works in the Illawara & Fremantle.
Posted in 17: DRIVER
Tagged Alan Wearne
