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Alan Wearne (born 23 July 1948) is an Australian poet.[1]
Alan Wearne | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alan Richard Wearne 23 July 1948 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Pen name | Walker Norris |
| Occupation | Poet, lecturer |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Period | 1971 – current |
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]
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]
- Public Relations (1972)
- New Devil, New Parish (1976)
- The Nightmarkets (Penguin, 1986) ISBN 0-14-007586-0
- Out Here (Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books 1987) ISBN 0-906427-72-X
- Kicking In Danger (Black Pepper 1997) ISBN 1-876044-20-9 review
- The Lovemakers: Book One, Saying All The Great Sexy Things (Penguin, 2001) ISBN 0-14-024541-3
- The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing (ABC, 2004) ISBN 0-7333-1359-0 review review
- Sarsaparilla A Calypso (Polar Bear Press, 2007)
- The Australian Popular Songbook (Giramondo 2008) ISBN 978-1-920882-41-9
- Prepare the Cabin for Landing (Giramondo 2012) ISBN 9781920882945
- These Things Are Real (Giramondo 2017) ISBN 978-1-925336-32-0
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