Papers of Alan Wearne
MSS 334
Collection Title
Papers of Alan WearneCollection Identifier
MSS 334Inclusive date(s)
1970 to 1994Extent and Medium
Creator(s)
Category
Subject: Person(s)
Collection Description
Literary papers, including notes on Nightmarkets, relating to the stage adaption by Monash University Student Theatre, 1994.
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wearne
Alan Wearne is an Australian poet and writer. He was born and educated in Melbourne and considers himself a Melbourne poet 'living in exile' while based outside his home city. He has been involved in the Australian poetry scene since the 1960s and has won a number of awards for his writing, including the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2008 for The Australian Popular Songbook.
One of his better known works is the verse novel The Nightmarkets (1986), which won the Australian Literary Studies Gold Medal and National Book Council Award for Australian Literature. Wearne followed with another verse novel, The Lovemakers: Book One, in 2001. This won the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and 2002 Book of the Year at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
Until late 2016, Wearne was Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, and also taught at Curtin University.
References:
Author record, Alan Wearne, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16822, 29/01/2019.]
University of Wollongong. (2016). Alan Wearne. Retrieved from: https://lha.uow.edu.au/taem/contacts/UOW214121.html, 29/01/2019.
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
A collection of literary papers of Alan Wearne. The collection consists largely of material relating to the stage adaption of Wearne's verse novel Nightmarkets (1986). This adaption was developed by James Lawson and the Students of Monash University Student Theatre in 1994. There are also notes with other dates and photocopies of news clippings from the 1970s, although the actual date of creation is not clear.
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Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material authored by Alan Wearne for private study and research is approved.
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Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.