2018	Copello, Beatriz	‘BOOK REVIEW: Alan Wearne These Things Are Real’ Writing NSW www.writingnsw.org.au – review
2018	Beneba Clark, Maxine	‘PORTRAIT: Lunch with ’that’ teacher Alan Wearne’ The Saturday Paper No 190, February 3-9, 2018.
2017	Keneally, Peter	‘These Things Are Real by Alan Wearne’ Australian Book Review, 397 December, 2017. www.australianbookreview.com.au – review
2017	Duwell, Martin	‘Alan Wearne: These Things Are Real and as editor: With the youngsters’ Australian Poetry Review September, 2017.
2017	Pierce, Peter	‘Contemporary Australian Poetry review: A fine anthology of quality and quantity’ The Age January 26, 2017.
2013	Keneally, Peter	‘Boomers’ Review of Prepare the Cabin for Landing by Alan Wearne’ Australian Book Review #348 February 2013.
2013	Scotney, Fiona	‘Review Short: Alan Wearne’s Prepare the Cabin for Landiing‘ Cordite Poetry Review August 6, 2013.
2013	Craven, Peter	‘Taking wing on a flight of fancy’ Sydney Morning Herald March 23, 2013.
2013	Page, Geoff	‘From Nugan hand to men on the land: the vivid poetry of unsentimental blokes’ The Australian February 16, 2013.
2013	Duwell, Martin	‘Alan Wearne: Prepare the Cabin for Landing’
		Australian Poetry Review March, 2013.
2013	Musgrave, David	‘Fasten your seatbelts: Prepare the Cabin for Landing by Alan Wearne’
		Sydney Review of Books May 3, 2013.
2012	Tranter, John	‘Introduction’ in Best Australian Poetry (Ed. John Tranter) 2012. See page xvi.
2011	Pierce, Peter	‘The Silver Age of Fiction’ Meanjin Summer Vol 70 no 4, pp110-115.
2009	McCooey, David	Book Chapter: ‘Poetry and Non-Fiction from 1950’ in
		Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Project
		Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009.
2008	Baum, Caroline	‘Rhyme and Punishment: The Melbourne born poet tackles the unpopular
		and forgotten in his latest collection’ Sydney Morning Herald
		Spectrum Supplement p.33, July 12-13, 2008.