Greg McLaren

Greg McLaren (born 1967) is an Australian poet. Born in the New South Wales Hunter Region coalfields town, Kurri Kurri. He moved to Sydney in 1990 where he studied at the University of Sydney and in 2005 he was awarded a PhD in Australian Literature.[1][2][3] His thesis was on Buddhist influences on the Australian poets Harold Stewart, Robert Gray and Judith Beveridge. As well as poetry, he has published reviews and criticism. Julieanne Lamond writes in Southerly that "McLaren attempts to find a stable connection between the Buddhist acceptance in the face of unknowing ... and the anger and drama of his sense of history". McLaren's work has been anthologised almost widely. His poems appear in Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith's Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry (Pandanus Press, 2006), Australian Poetry from 1788 (edited by Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann), A Slow Combusting Hymn (edited by Kit Kelen and Jean Kent) and Contemporary Australian Poetry (edited by Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson and David Musgrave).

Bibliography
  • Everything falls in (Vagabond, 2000)
  • Darkness Disguised (Sidewalk, 2002)
  • The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead (Puncher & Wattmann, 2007)
  • After Han Shan (Flying Islands, 2012)
  • Australian ravens (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016)
  • Windfall (forthcoming with Puncher & Wattmann, 2018)
gollark: Without transistors, we would be in the 1950s, approximately!
gollark: So what? Without the horse there probably wouldn't be cars. That doesn't make horses good.
gollark: Everyone on here has a few billion in their phone/computer/whatever!
gollark: Transistors are often made very small and are in computers!
gollark: * transistors

References
  1. Riemer, Nick (2008). "Greg McLaren – The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead". Jacket magazine #36. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  2. "Greg McLaren". Mascara Literary Review #3. March 2008. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  3. Beveridge, Judith (2009). "Review". Island Magazine 119. ISSN 1035-3127. Archived from the original on 27 March 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.


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