For the economist see Joel Dean (economist)

Joel Dean (economist)

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Joel Deane (born 1969) is an Australian poet, novelist, and speechwriter.

Biography

Deane, born in Melbourne, Australia, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s, working as a technology journalist. He has also worked as a press secretary and speechwriter for the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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Deane's first novel, Another, was considered a “striking debut” by Melbourne Weekly and "reminiscent of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet" by Australian Book Review

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. His first collection of poetry, Subterranean Radio Songs, was short-listed for the 2006 Anne Elder Award

Anne Elder Award

The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry is administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and is awarded annually, as the Anne Elder Award, for the best first book of poetry published in Australia. It was established in 1976 and currently has a prize of A$1000 for...

, and has been called "brilliantly energetic" and "virtuosic" by Australian Book Review.

In 2010, Deane published The Norseman's Song to critical acclaim. Described by its publisher as "a stylish blend of gothic mystery and modern crime noir", the book balances two very different narratives, that of a C19th whaler trapped in the Arctic Circle alongside a contemporary Melbourne cab driver's night from hell. Peter Pierce, in the Sydney Morning Herald called it "a bold unfolding of a succession of nightmares, issuing from probable truths and from feverish imaginings, a striking juxtaposition of legendary past and seedy present", noting that "Deane belongs to a long line of yarn-spinners in Australian fiction from Henry Lawson to Frank Hardy to Peter Carey".

Fiction

• The Norseman's Song (Hunter, 2010) ISBN 9780980740523
• Another (IP, 2004) ISBN 1876819251

Poetry

• Subterranean Radio Songs Interactive Publications (2005) ISBN 9781876819316.
• 10 Pound Poems, Picaro Press (2007) ISBN 9781920957476.
• Magisterium, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9781740971799.

External links

• Interview with Joel Deane
• Review of Another in API Review of Books