Paul Grano
Paul Langton Grano (22 October 1894 – 11 January 1975) was an Australian poet and journalist.
Biography
Born in Ararat, Victoria, Grano studied Law at the University of Melbourne. He worked as a journalist and commercial traveller, and in 1932 moved to Queensland where he worked in the Main Roads Commission.[1] In 1933, he founded the Catholic Poetry Society in Brisbane, and in 1934 the Catholic Readers' and Writers' Society.
Works
- Quest, Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1940
- Poet's Holiday, Brisbane : Yallaroi Publication, 1941
- Poems Old & New, Melbourne: Georgian House, 1945
- Witness to the Stars: an Anthology of Australasian Verse by Catholic Poets, edited by Paul Grano; with foreword by George O'Neill, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1946
- Selected Verse of Paul Grano (1894–1975), Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1976
References
- ^ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
