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]

Assessment

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]

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

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.

List of poems

Title	Year	First published
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

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

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.

References

review by Gig Ryan, The Age, 31 January 2004

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Obituary, The Age

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