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Alan Wearne
A sequence of inter-connected narratives from pre-World War One to the 2020s, Mixed Business is Alan Wearne's latest contribution to the verse novel genre.
Propelled at times (though never exclusively)…
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Alan Wearne is this country’s most public poet, a master of the Australian idiom, the recorder of its fashions, and the scourge of its big-noters, pretenders and crooks. They are…
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This is a selection from a poet who believes that Australia still has countless stories to tell, re-tell and imagine. These are works by someone intrigued by the varieties of…
Centred on Australian suburbia in the 60s, 70s and 80s, this book explores the inner and outer tensions of families, friendships and society whilst charting the sleaze, mayhem and humanity…
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"Wearne's epics and fragments are like the traces of aruined culture, in which everybody got to star in their own domestic drama orscrewball romance. Until you realise that it's happening…
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