Alan Gould

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| birth_date = 22 March 1949

| birth_place = London, England

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| occupation = Novelist, essayist and poet

| language = English

| nationality = Australian

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| awards = Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry 1981 winner; Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 2006 winner

| years_active = 1974-

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Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet.{{cite web|title= Austlit — Alan Gould |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A387|access-date= 27 March 2024}}

Life and career

Gould was born in London to an English father and an Icelandic mother.{{Cite web |url=http://actwritersshowcase.com/Writers/F-K/Gould_Alan.shtml |title=Alan Gould |access-date=9 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610205926/http://actwritersshowcase.com/Writers/F-K/Gould_Alan.shtml |archive-date=10 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} His family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966.

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He completed a BA at the Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education.

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Having worked as a nuclear physics technician and agricultural labourer, he began writing full-time in 1973, occasionally teaching and writing journalism.

Gould's first book of poems, Icelandic Solitaries, was published in 1978. Numerous volumes of poetry and fiction have followed, with his best known novel being To the Burning City (1991), about the relationship between two brothers, set in World War II. His work has been awarded the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (1981), the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Best Book of the Year Award (1985), the National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1992), the Royal Blind Society Audio Book of the Year Award (1999), the Philip Hodgins Memorial Award for contribution to Australian Literature (1999), and the Grace Leven Award For Poetry (2006 for The Past Completes Me - Selected Poems 1973-2003). His novel, The Schoonermaster's Dance, was joint winner of the ACT Book of the Year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/frequentlyaskedquestions/Events/literaryawards/book_of_the_year/book_of_the_year_2001|title=ACT Book of the Year - 2001 Winners|website=ACT Book of the Year|date=10 May 2022 }}

Later books include a novel, The Lakewoman, from Australian Scholarly Publishing, and a collection of poems, Folk Tunes, from Salt Publishing, both in 2009. The Lakewoman was shortlisted for the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. The Seaglass Spiral was published in 2012 by Finlay Lloyd, and in 2013 appeared a collection of poems and a comic opera libretto, Capital from Puncher & Wattmann, and a collection of essays, Joinery and Scrollwork: A Writer's Workbench from Quadrant Books.

In 2015 he published a picaresque novel, The Poet's Stairwell, Black Pepper publishing.

Bibliography

=Poetry=

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The Skald Mosaic : A Sequence of Poems (1975)
Icelandic Solitaries (1978)
Astral Sea (1981)
The Pausing of the Hours (1984)
The Twofold Place (1986)
Years Found in Likeness (1988)
Formerlight : Selected Poems (1992)
Momentum (1992)
Mermaid : Poems and Illustrations (1996)
Dalliance and Scorn (1999)
A Fold in the Light (2001)
The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 (2005)
Folk Tunes (2009)
Capital (2013)
Charlie Twirl : Sixty-One New Poems (2017)

;List of poems

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A Sixties poem \|1996 \|{{cite journal \|author=Gould, Alan \|date=Jul–Aug 1996 \|title=A Sixties poem \|journal=Quadrant \|volume=40 \|issue=7–8 \|page=20 \|url= }} \|

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A Sixties poem

|1996

|{{cite journal |author=Gould, Alan |date=Jul–Aug 1996 |title=A Sixties poem |journal=Quadrant |volume=40 |issue=7–8 |page=20 |url= }}

=Novels=

The Man Who Stayed Below (1984)
To the Burning City (1991)
Close Ups (1994)
The Tazyrik Year (1998)
The Schoonermaster's Dance (2001)
The Lake Woman (2009)
The Seaglass Spiral (2012)
The Poet's Stairwell (2015)

= Short fiction =

;Collections

The Enduring Disguises: Three novellas (1988)

;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

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The Webley \|1995 \|{{cite journal \|author=Gould, Alan \|date=Dec 1995 \|title=The Webley \|journal=Quadrant \|volume=39 \|issue=12 \|pages=72–74 \|url= }} \| \|

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The Webley

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=Non-fiction=

Three Streets in Search of an Author (1993)
The Totem Ship (1996)
Joinery and Scrollwork (2013)
{{cite journal |author=Gould, Alan |date=Jan–Feb 2016 |title=Short takes XIX (from a journal) |journal=Quadrant |volume=60 |issue=1–2 |pages=120–122 |url= }}
{{cite journal |author=Gould, Alan |author-mask=1 |date=Jan–Feb 2018 |title=Immoderate reactions : on Much ado about nothing |journal=Quadrant |volume=62 |issue=1–2 [543] |pages=104–107}}

Awards

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry 1981 winner for Astral Sea{{cite web|title= Austlit — Astral Sea by Alan Gould |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C178423?mainTabTemplate=workAwards|access-date= 27 March 2024}}
Miles Franklin Award 1992 shortlisted for To the Burning City{{cite web|title="Five vie for literary award" |newspaper= Canberra Times|date= 12 May 1992|publisher= The Canberra Times, 12 May 1992, p4|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132378734|access-date= 27 March 2024}}
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 2006 winner for The Past Completes Me : Selected Poems 1973-2003{{cite web|title= Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007 |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v186?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=3&count=3|access-date= 27 March 2024}}
Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Fiction 2010 shortlisted for The Lake Woman[http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards10/2010_shortlist 2010 Shortlist] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906021555/http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards10/2010_shortlist|date=6 September 2010}}

References

External links

{{cite web|url= http://site.calidrislitagency.com/art/the_seaglass_spiral_alan_gould.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070830173858/http://site.calidrislitagency.com/art/the_seaglass_spiral_alan_gould.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2007-08-30 |title=The Seaglass Spiral }} {{small|(233 KiB)}} Synopsis & extract of upcoming novel
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927030130/http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=1019 A Birdseye View of the Norwegian Sea] another extract from The Seaglass Spiral
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061010121928/http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=1376 More Short Takes] at Quadrant
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061004074210/http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla7/thyla7h.html On poets being paid for their work] Essay with Geoff Page at Thylazine
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070830104304/http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000548.html ‘Ballade for Alan Gould’] Poem by Alan Wearne
[http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/throughmyeyes/vi_toh.asp Marching in the Streets] Gould on protesting against the Vietnam War (Video & transcript)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120320133854/http://www.the-chimaera.com/March2010/Spotlight/Interview.html Interview with Alan Gould] at The Chimaera. Other poems by Alan Gould and appreciations of his work at the same site.