Alan Gould

Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.

Life
Gould was born in London, England. His family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education. 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 books of poems, Icelandic Solitaries, was published in 1978. Since then 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 most recent books have been a novel, The Lakewoman, from Australian Scholarly Press, 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.

He is at work on a picaresque novel, The Poets’ Stairwell.

Poetry

 * Icelandic Solitaries. (1978)
 * Astral Sea. (1981)
 * The Pausing of the Hours. (1984)
 * The Twofold Place. (1986)
 * Years Found in Likeness. (1988)
 * Formerlight. (1992)
 * Momentum. (1992)
 * Mermaid. (1996)
 * Dalliance and Scorn. (1999)
 * A Fold in the Light. (2001)
 * The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973–2003. (2005) ISBN 0-7022-3516-4
 * Folk Tunes. (2009)

Novels

 * The Man Who Stayed Below. (1984)
 * The Enduring Disguises: Three novellas. (1988)
 * To the Burning City. (1991)
 * Close Ups. (1994)
 * The Tazyrik Year. (1998)
 * The Schoonermaster's Dance. (2001) ISBN 0-7322-6654-8 Review
 * The Lakewoman. (2009)

Essays

 * Three Streets in Search of an Author. (1993)
 * The Totem Ship. (1996)