Australian poet and creative writing educator
Alan Wearne |
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Born | Alan Richard Wearne (1948-07-23) 23 July 1948 (age 76) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Pen name | Walker Norris |
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Occupation | Poet, lecturer |
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Nationality | Australian |
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Alma mater | Monash University |
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Period | 1971 – current |
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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.[1] 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.[1] 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]
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