Paul Grano

Paul Langton Grano (22 October 1894 – 11 January 1975)[1] was an Australian poet and journalist.

Biography

Born in Ararat, Victoria, Grano studied Law at the University of Melbourne.[1] He worked as a journalist and commercial traveller, and in 1932 moved to Queensland where he worked in the Main Roads Commission.[2] In 1933, he founded the Catholic Poetry Society in Brisbane, and in 1944 the Catholic Readers' and Writers' Society.[1]

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

  1. ^ a b c "Paul L. Grano". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
  2. ^ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996


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