Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano (30 October 1947 – 8 December 2002) was an Australian poet and art critic.^[1]

Life

Calatano was born on 30 October 1947 in Brisbane.^[1] He married writer Helen Hewitt in 1990.^[2] He died on 8 December 2002 in Melbourne.^[1]

Awards

• 1992 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry (with Kevin Hart)
• 1997 Australia Council's Keesing Studio in Paris residency
• 2002 Harold White Fellowship from the National Library in Canberra

Works

• "The Cupboard"; "Sacred Site"; "Thoughts", Jacket 4

Poetry

• 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.
• 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.

Short stories

• The Woman Who Lives Here and Other Stories. Champion Books. 1983. ISBN 978-0-908483-05-1.

Criticism

• 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
• 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.

Reviews

Gary Catalano makes the most ordinary sights and sounds extraordinary. In "Wholemeal Loaf," he compares "even the lightest loaf" to "a lump of masonry from a demolition site."^[3]

References

1. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A0Qp
2. http://www.paperbarkpress.com/authors/Catalano.htm
3. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/reviews.htm

• Obituary, The Age