Alan Wearne Comments

Alan Wearne has spent much of his poetry career chronicling the world of 20th Century urban Australia. These have resulted in 2 verse novels and a verse novella. In 2008 his sequence of sonnets and other 14-liners that are centred around popular Australian songs from the late 19th Century through to 1980, was published by Giramondo.

Alan Wearne was born (23 July 1948) and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He studied history at Monash University, and lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong up until the end of 2016.