Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet.
[1] Gould was born in London to an English father and an Icelandic mother.
[2] His family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966.
Numerous volumes of poetry and fiction have followed, with his best known novel being To the Burning City (1991), about the relationship between two brothers, set in World War II.
The Seaglass Spiral was published in 2012 by Finlay Lloyd, and in 2013 appeared a collection of poems and a comic opera libretto, Capital from Puncher & Wattmann, and a collection of essays, Joinery and Scrollwork: A Writer's Workbench from Quadrant Books.