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".

Bibliography

• Everything falls in (Vagabond, 2000)
• Darkness Disguised (Sidewalk, 2002)
• The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead (Puncher & Wattmann, 2007)

References

1. Riemer, Nick (Late 2008). "Greg McLaren – The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead". Jacket magazine #36. Retrieved 24 January 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. "Greg McLaren". Mascara Literary Review #3. March 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
3. Beveridge, Judith (2009). "Review". Island Magazine 119. ISSN 1035-3127. Retrieved 24 January 2010.