Greg McLaren
Greg McLaren (born 1967) is an Australian poet. Born in the New South Wales Hunter Region coalfields town, Kurri Kurri. He moved to Sydney in 1990 where he studied at the University of Sydney and in 2005 he was awarded a PhD in Australian Literature. His thesis was on Buddhist influences on the Australian poets Harold Stewart, Robert Gray and Judith Beveridge. As well as poetry, he has published reviews and criticism. Julieanne Lamond writes in "Southerly" that "McLaren attempts to find a stable connection between the Buddhist acceptance in the face of unknowing ... and the anger and  drama of his sense of history". McLaren's work has been anthologised almost widely. His poems appear in Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith's "Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry" (Pandanus Press, 2006), "Australian Poetry from 1788" (edited by Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann), "A Slow Combusting Hymn" (edited by Kit Kelen and Jean Kent) and "Contemporary Australian Poetry" (edited by Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson and David Musgrave).