Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano
Born(1947-10-30)30 October 1947
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died8 December 2002(2002-12-08) (aged 55)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupations
  • Poet
  • art critic
Spouse
Helen Hewitt
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(m. 1990)​
Writing career
Notable awardsGrace Leven Prize for Poetry (1992)

Gary Catalano (30 October 1947 – 8 December 2002) was an Australian poet and art critic.

Life

Calatano was born on 30 October 1947 in Brisbane. He married writer Helen Hewitt in 1990. Prominent amongst regular art critics for news periodicals, he wrote for The Age 1985–1990.

He died on 8 December 2002 in Melbourne.

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

  • Remembering the Rural Life. University of Queensland Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-7022-1309-0.
  • Heaven of Rags: Forty Poems, 1978-1981. Hale & Iremonger. 1982. ISBN 978-0-86806-021-7.
  • Slow Tennis. University of Queensland Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-7022-1775-3.
  • Fresh Linen, sixty prose poems, 1980-1986. University of Queensland Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-7022-2114-9.
  • The Empire of Grass. University of Queensland Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-7022-2321-1.
  • Selected Poems 1973-1992. University of Queensland Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7022-2542-0.
  • Household : eleven poems. Finlay Press. 1998.
  • Jigsaw. Paper Bark Press, Craftsman House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9586482-5-7.
  • Light and Water. Finlay Press. 2002.
  • New and Selected Poems, 1973-2002. Brandl & Schlesinger. 2006. ISBN 978-1-876040-87-1.
  • The King of Clarity and Other Poems. Picaro Press. 2010.
  • Collected Prose Poems. Gazebo Books. 2021. ISBN 978-0-6451-0305-2.

Selected list of poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The cupboard 1998 Catalano, Gary (July 1998). "The cupboard". Jacket. 4.
Sacred site 1998 Catalano, Gary (July 1998). "Sacred site". Jacket. 4.
Thoughts 1998 Catalano, Gary (July 1998). "Thoughts". Jacket. 4.
Translation 1995 Catalano, Gary (December 1995). "Translation". Quadrant. 39 (12): 61.
Creek 1995 Catalano, Gary (December 1995). "Creek". Quadrant. 39 (12): 61.

Short stories

Non-fiction

  • The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism, 1959-1968 1981
  • The Bandaged Image: a study of artists' books 1983
  • An Intimate Australia: The Landscape and Recent Australian Art 1985
  • Catalano, Gary (December 1995). "Vivian Smith". Quadrant. 39 (12): 57–60.
  • Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists 1997
  • The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and His Art 2001

Anthologies

  • Peter Porter, ed. (1998). The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-550706-5.
  • Martin Duwell; Bronwyn Lea, eds. (2003). "Arles". The Best Australian Poetry 2003. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-3420-0.
  • Thomas W. Shapcott, ed. (1998). "The Great Museum". The moment made marvellous: a celebration of UQP poetry. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-3012-7.
  • Cassandra Atherton; Paul Herrington, eds. (2020). Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-5228-7474-7.

References