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Alan Loney Alan Loney i(A66685 works by) (a.k.a. Alan Perress Loney)
Born: Established: 1940 Lower Hutt, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 7 May 2001
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1 [From] Crankhandle Alan Loney , 2017 single work poetry extract
— Appears in: 20 Poets : Selected Poems, Cordite Books Series 1 & 2 2017; (p. 32-35)
1 2 y separately published work icon Melbourne Journal : Notebooks 1998-2003 Alan Loney , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016 9635511 2016 selected work poetry

'Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is the third instalment in Alan Loney’s notebooks, covering the period in between his previous publications (Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976-1991 and Crankhandle: Notebooks June 2010–November 2013).

'Allowing observations and ideas to fall on to the page half formed, poems to shimmer into and out of existence like apparitions, Alan Loney’s Melbourne Journal celebrates the reflexive muscle of the poet’s mind, heightened by the stimuli of a new place: Melbourne.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon UWAP Poetry Club David McCooey , Alan Loney , J.H. Crone , Bruce Dawe , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016 10166649 2016 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon ConStellations Alan Loney , Australia : Work & Tumble Press , 2015 9484198 2015 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon Crankhandle : Notebooks November 2010-June 2012 Alan Loney , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2015 8815115 2015 selected work poetry

'Crankhandle is the latest part of an ongoing Notebooks series, the first part of which was published as Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976–1991 (Auckland University Press 1998). Between Sidetracks and Crankhandle comes a longer unpublished section, Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998–2003, begun when I first came to Australia. From the beginning, these writings were never seen as notes or sketches towards poems that were yet to be fully realised – each entry was intended to be as finished an act of writing as any other, longer, individual work.

'Over the nearly forty years of this endeavour, there have of course been gaps, but the Notebooks provide a way for me to be quickly attentive to my environment, and to circumstances of wherever I might happen to be sitting, standing, waiting, travelling at any time. Perhaps one could speak of the individual pieces as ‘fragments’, but they are not fragments in the way that ancient Greek poetry has come to us on torn, worn, eaten, half-destroyed bits of papyrus. If these works are fragments, then each of Ezra Pound’s cantos are also fragments, placed against the totality of all poetry, from all over the planet, and from throughout recorded world history. In this sense, fragments are all we have, and will ever have. If some are very long and some very short, then that is simply how things are.

–Alan Loney' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon 10 Books, 5 Makers : Australian Books in Washington DC Ten Books, Five Makers : Australian Books in Washington DC Alex Selenitsch , Marian Crawford , Jorge Albert Lozoya , Alan Loney , Melbourne : Codex , 2014 8265727 2014 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon eMailing Flowers to Mondrian Alan Loney , Melbourne : Hawk Press , 2014 7419613 2014 selected work poetry
1 Alan Loney launches ‘Open Sesame’ Alan Loney , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , August-October no. 5 2012;
1 y separately published work icon Anne of the Iron Door Alan Loney , Fitzroy North : Black Pepper , 2011 Z1809528 2011 single work novella historical fiction 'A tale of Gutenberg and his mistress, Anne of the Iron Door, set in Strasbourg in 1436. In this extraordinary novel historical records weave the remarkable life of Anne. A world of deceit, betrayal, disease, unicorns, playing cards, the birth of printing and a strange tale of mutually unrequited love. [From the publisher's website]
1 Testament : Ninth Muse i "of whatever part of the world", Alan Loney , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Jacket , July no. 40 2010;
1 Testament: Tenth Muse i "whatever done by one's own hand", Alan Loney , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Jacket , Early no. 37 2009;
1 1 y separately published work icon Day's Eye Alan Loney , Edmonton : Rubicon Press , 2008 Z1638712 2008 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon The Printing of a Masterpiece Alan Loney , Fitzroy North : Black Pepper , 2008 Z1513955 2008 single work essay 'I cannot think of any work that resembles The printing of a masterpiece. It is a memoir of the flowing intermesh of typography, ink-and-paper, Renaissance cultural history and deeply personal, hands-on knowledge. It is about the printing of an exquisite book, an object in which every stage of craftsmanship has been scrupulously considered.' (Chris Wallace-Crabbe, quoted on publisher's website, http://users.vic.chariot.net.au/~bpepper/index.html)
1 y separately published work icon Nowhere To Go and Other Poems Alan Loney , Carlton : Five Islands Press , 2007 Z1451703 2007 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon New Leaf : Poems Alan Loney , Malvern East : Electio Editions , 2005 Z1638906 2005 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Gallipoli Alan Loney , Mission : Barbarian Press , 2005 Z1451706 2005 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon Fragmenta Nova Alan Loney , Melbourne : Five Islands Press , 2005 Z1228002 2005 selected work poetry
1 The Importance of Being Edited Alan Loney , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 243 2002; (p. 62)

— Review of Szabad Alan Duff , 2001 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon A Book in the Hand : Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand Penny Griffith (editor), Peter Hughes (editor), Alan Loney (editor), Auckland : Auckland University Press , 2000 Z945264 2000 anthology essay
1 Question and Response Alan Loney , Kris Hemensley , 1977 single work prose
— Appears in: 3 Blind Mice 1977; (p. 10-13)
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