Alan Wearne

Lecturer
Bachelor of Arts, LaTrobe University,
Diploma of Education, Rusden College

Consultation Hours: Tuesday 10.30am - 12.30pm, Wednesday 1.30 - 3.30pm

Alan Wearne has been part of the Australian poetry scene since the late sixties and is the author of four collections, Public Relations, New Devil, New Parish, Out Here (a verse novella) the award winning verse novel The Nightmarkets (which has also been adapted for the stage) and Kicking in Danger (a fantasy satire on Melbourne's football). The first volume of another verse novel, The Lovemakers, was published by Penguin Australia in March 2001.

Reviews were excellent but a tepid 'promotional' campaign by the publishers, and the growing middle-browisation of Australian arts and letters helped ensure that Penguin would not publish the already completed Volume Two.
With The Lovemakers Volume One winning the NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry (Kenneth Slessor Award), the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Australian Poetry, Penguin pulped remaining stocks.
In February 2004, Volume Two was published by ABC Books. The reviews were again excellent, any 'promotional' campaign non-existent.

"With Wearne, we get the combination of extremely imaginative writing on the largest possible scale in a style of absolute originality." - Peter Craven

E-mail: alan_wearne@uow.edu.au

Read about the Lovemakers: An Essay by Martin Duvell (English Department, University of Queensland).

Alan Wearne

The Lovemakers
Book One
Saying all the great sexy things

The Lovemakers
Book Two
Money and Nothing