{{Short description|Australian poet and art critic (1947–2002)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2015}} {{infobox writer |name=Gary Catalano |birth_date={{birth date|1947|10|30|df=y}} |birth_place=Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |death_date={{death date and age|2002|12|8|1947|10|30|df=y}} |death_place=Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *art critic }} |nationality=Australian |awards=Grace Leven Prize for Poetry (1992) |spouse={{marriage|Helen Hewitt|1990}} }} '''Gary Catalano''' (30 October 1947 – 8 December 2002) was an Australian poet and art critic.<ref name="austlit">{{Cite web|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A0Qp|title = Gary Catalano | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories}}</ref>
==Life== Calatano was born on 30 October 1947 in Brisbane.<ref name="austlit"/> He married writer Helen Hewitt in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.paperbarkpress.com/authors/Catalano.htm |title=Paper Bark Press: Authors: Gary Catalano |access-date=30 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817205221/http://www.paperbarkpress.com/authors/Catalano.htm |archive-date=17 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Prominent amongst regular art critics for news periodicals, he wrote for ''The Age'' 1985–1990.
He died on 8 December 2002 in Melbourne.<ref name="austlit" />
==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==== * {{cite book| title=Remembering the Rural Life| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1978| isbn=978-0-7022-1309-0 }} * {{cite book| title=Heaven of Rags: Forty Poems, 1978-1981| publisher=Hale & Iremonger| year=1982| isbn=978-0-86806-021-7 }} * {{cite book| title=Slow Tennis | publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1984| isbn=978-0-7022-1775-3 }} * {{cite book| title=Fresh Linen, sixty prose poems, 1980-1986| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1988| isbn=978-0-7022-2114-9 }} * {{cite book| title=The Empire of Grass| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1991| isbn=978-0-7022-2321-1 }} * {{cite book| title=Selected Poems 1973-1992| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1993| isbn=978-0-7022-2542-0 }} * {{cite book| title=Household : eleven poems| publisher=Finlay Press | year=1998}} * {{cite book| title=Jigsaw| publisher=Paper Bark Press, Craftsman House| year=1999| isbn=978-0-9586482-5-7 }} * {{cite book |title=Light and Water |title-link=Light and Water |publisher=Finlay Press |year=2002}} * {{cite book| title=New and Selected Poems, 1973-2002| publisher=Brandl & Schlesinger| year=2006| isbn=978-1-876040-87-1 }} * {{cite book| title=The King of Clarity and Other Poems| publisher=Picaro Press| year=2010}} * {{cite book| title=Collected Prose Poems| publisher=Gazebo Books| year=2021| isbn=978-0-6451-0305-2}}
==== Selected list of poems ==== {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !width=25%|Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- |The cupboard |1998 |{{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Jul 1998 |title=The cupboard |journal=Jacket |volume=4 |url=http://jacketmagazine.com/04/catalano.html <!--accessdate=2016-0825-->}} | |- |Sacred site |1998 |{{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Jul 1998 |title=Sacred site |journal=Jacket |volume=4 |url=http://jacketmagazine.com/04/catalano.html <!--accessdate=2016-0825-->}} | |- |Thoughts |1998 |{{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Jul 1998 |title=Thoughts |journal=Jacket |volume=4 |url=http://jacketmagazine.com/04/catalano.html <!--accessdate=2016-0825-->}} | |- |Translation |1995 |{{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Dec 1995 |title=Translation |journal=Quadrant |volume=39 |issue=12 |pages=61 |url= <!--accessdate=-->}} | |- |Creek |1995 |{{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Dec 1995 |title=Creek |journal=Quadrant |volume=39 |issue=12 |pages=61 |url= <!--accessdate=-->}} | |- |}
===Short stories=== * {{cite book| title=The Woman Who Lives Here and Other Stories| publisher=Champion Books| year=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 * {{cite journal |author=Catalano, Gary |date=Dec 1995 |title=Vivian Smith |journal=Quadrant |volume=39 |issue=12 |pages=57–60 |url= <!--accessdate=-->}} * ''Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists'' 1997 * ''The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and His Art'' 2001
===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse| editor=Peter Porter| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=1998| isbn=978-0-19-550706-5 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cy7-rJoFsrEC&q=Gary+Catalano+poet&pg=PA14| chapter=Arles| title=The Best Australian Poetry 2003|editor=Martin Duwell |editor2=Bronwyn Lea| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=2003| isbn=978-0-7022-3420-0 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BaEFMdkel2MC&q=Gary+Catalano+poet&pg=PA97| chapter=The Great Museum| title=The moment made marvellous: a celebration of UQP poetry| editor=Thomas W. Shapcott| publisher=University of Queensland Press| year=1998| isbn=978-0-7022-3012-7 }} * {{cite book| title=Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry| editor=Cassandra Atherton| editor2=Paul Herrington| publisher=Melbourne University Press| year=2020| isbn=978-0-5228-7474-7}}
==References== *[http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&kw=gig+ryan&pb=age&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=author&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE040131PNLV20EIA3E] review by Gig Ryan, The Age, 31 January 2004 {{reflist}} *[http://newsstore.theage.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=age&kw=Gig+Ryan&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=author&sf=headline&rc=50&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE030123ULBVN4NQJGE Obituary, The Age]
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