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Alan Gould Alan Gould i(A387 works by) (a.k.a. Alan David Gould)
Born: Established: 1949 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1966
Heritage: English
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1 A Fold in the Light : Five Poems from a Sequence Alan Gould , single work poetry
1 Short Takes XXIV Alan Gould , 2017 single work diary
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 61 no. 11 2017; (p. 102)
1 Titanium Where My Hipsters Rub i "I kept my two Icelandic hips", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 61 no. 10 2017; (p. 25)
1 Maidenly i "The Akureyki girls are out on Sulur", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 61 no. 10 2017; (p. 24-25)
1 Short Takes XXII Alan Gould , 2017 single work diary
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 61 no. 4 2017; (p. 96-99)
1 Kindling the Real Estate Pages i "Igniting a journal’s pages,", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 61 no. 4 2017; (p. 31)
1 Tonight's Scotch i "Tarpaper hobos–holed socks who kip beneath", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 61 no. 3 2017; (p. 97)
1 Emerging from Our Shells Alan Gould , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 61 no. 3 2017; (p. 90-92) 'With one small qualification I’ll come to, I enjoyed this book. It comprises twenty-five pages of illustration followed by twenty-six poems, and the integration of the two art forms is most skilfully done. Indeed, if artfulness were not in its present epoch of beggary, then the exquisite watercolour illuminations of shells and marine mortuary here, together with these shapely poems, might merit being placed within a finessed sample of bookcraft, hardcover, saddle-stitched, marbled endpapers and tasselled bookmark such as that quiet craftsman Alec Bolton used to create on his Brindabella Press. But the paperback we have from RMIT University Link yields a volume workaday and effective enough. In the first half of the book it displays nautilus, cone shell, seahorse, conch, each with an arresting singularity on a creamy page, while the poems that commence halfway through disclose Morgan-Shae’s commitment to the wrought-ness of verbal art, shapeliness as a presence-in-words for ear, eye and intellect.' (Introduction)
1 Two Pomegranates Blush like Mars i "Two pomegranates blush like Mars,", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 61 no. 1 2017; (p. 127)
1 Dream-Ballad i "Last night I dreamed I merely died", Alan Gould , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 61 no. 1 2017; (p. 61)
1 y separately published work icon Charlie Twirl : Sixty-One New Poems Alan Gould , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 10716536 2017 selected work poetry

'From the intrigue of his earlier poetry in fatalism and the mysteries of character, Alan Gould’s interest has moved to music. In many of the poems in this book, the folk songs or the homages to Vaughan Williams, his enquiry is one of synaesthesia: What is it we see when we hear? In meditating this the poet prefers the crisp, accessible, narrative voice to the philosophical. Here are ballads and celebrations, homages to past authors who have been his spiritual companions – Graves, Yeats, Shakespeare, and tributes to the Finnish resistance to Soviet aggression in 1939. There are some ‘equivalents’ to popular folk songs, and the volume’s title poem, a commemoration of the extraordinary George Street dancer of VJ Day 1945.' (Publication summary)
1 The Demoniser's Song Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: First Refuge : Poems on Social Justice 2016; (p. 52)
1 Short Takes XX Alan Gould , 2016 single work diary
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 60 no. 5 2016; (p. 99-102)
1 Cat-minding i "Beyaz the cat has a-hunting gone", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 60 no. 6 2016; (p. 95)
1 A Somerset Jig i "Mmmenuhin, Menuhin", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 60 no. 6 2016; (p. 95)
1 The Insistent Face to Face i "At whiskey light I scratch my head;", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 90-91)
1 The Epochs Must Go Chatterbox i "This ailing mean's a gentleman", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 88-89)
1 Short Takes XIX Alan Gould , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 60 no. 1-2 2016; (p. 120-122)
1 Captain Armchair i "When I was Skipper Armchair and I trimmed a swell topgallant", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 60 no. 12 2016; (p. 109)
1 Stanzas for Nearby Insects i "Our dapper moths in capes of velveteen", Alan Gould , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 60 no. 12 2016; (p. 59)
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