His published works were extensive. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels. Some works also included issues of science fiction and new-age spiritual guidance related to the interpretation of dreams. He was also involved in the Western Australian Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Some sources claim that he won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1955, but subsequent research has disproved this, finding that he was awarded a grant in 1957 which he could not retain due to living outside Australia at the time.[4] His works were received more favourably in Europe than in Australia. He lived mostly in Asia and later the Netherlands, until returning to Perth in 1967. His extensive time overseas may have been because of the oppressive Australian moral climate of the period against homosexuality. In 1961, he had been charged with indecent exposure on a Perth beach.[5]
A resident of Cottesloe, he was enthusiastic for its beach environment.[6] As a writer in Western Australia conditions were not always supportive of the profession.[7]
His involvement with the Christos experiment[8][9] saw his writing a number of books related to the subject.[10][11][12][13][14]
His novel A Waltz Through the Hills was made into a 1988 film of the same title.[15] His most commercially successful work was a novel about a homosexual love affair, No End To The Way (1965),[16] published under the pseudonym Neville Jackson.[17][18] Interviewed in later life about the novel, Glaskin said: "It was banned in Australia and the paperback publishers, Corgi, researched the Australian censorship laws, and discovered that the book could not be shipped to Australia. So they chartered planes and flew them in".[19] It was partly autobiographical, and inspired by his relationships with Dutch men.[20] Its publication preceded his relationship with noted genealogist Leo van de Pas (Leonardus Francisus Maria van de Pas, 1942–2016), whom he met in 1968 in a gay bar in Amsterdam, and lived with from then onwards till the end of his life.[21]
He was also a silent financial partner in The Coffee Pot, a popular Perth meeting place for homosexuals, bohemians and students which was established in the 1950s by Dutch Indonesian migrants, and was then the city's only late night cafe.[22][23]
In 1967 he met the British writer Iris Murdoch, who was visiting Australia. In a letter to her friend Brigid Brophy she wrote: ... the opera house is the most beautiful single object I've seen since getting here (with the possible exception of a West Australian novelist called Jerry Glaskin, whom I had reluctantly to leave behind in Perth).[24]
^Gerald Glaskin — talks about his love of Cottesloe (March 1984); suffers bad health needing hospitalisation (Sept. 1984). The West Australian, 24 March 1984, p.146; 26 Sept. 1984, p.13
^Clary, Mike (1971) "It isn't easy to make a living as a writer. (WA authors comment on making a living as a writer)". Daily News, 7 July 1971, p. 10
^Parkhurst, Nicolas (1973). The Christos Experiment. Open Mind Publications. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
^Parkhurst, Jacqueline; Parkhurst, Nicolas H (1976). Altered states of consciousness and the Christos experiment. Open Mind Publications. ISBN978-0-9596609-1-3.
^Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus) (1986). Windows of the mind : the Christos experience. Prism. ISBN978-0-907061-81-6.
^Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus); Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus), 1923-2000. Door to eternity (1989). A door to infinity : proving the Christos experience (Rev. ed.). Prisim. ISBN978-1-85327-033-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus) (1979). A door to eternity : proving the Christos experience. Wildwood House. ISBN978-0-7045-3002-7.
^Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus) (1978). Worlds within (Arrow ed. with new appendix ed.). Arrow Books. ISBN978-0-09-918600-7.
^Fisher, Jeremy No end to the way: using G.M. Glaskin’s life and works in creative writing teaching, University of New England, in Strange Bedfellows: Refereed Conference Papers of the 15th Annual AAWP Conference, 2010
^Burbidge, John Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin, Monash University Publishing, 2014, pp135-139
^Fisher, Jeremy No end to the way: using G.M. Glaskin's life and works in creative writing teaching, University of New England, in Strange Bedfellows: Refereed Conference Papers of the 15th Annual AAWP Conference, 2010
^Coffee Pot Exhibition Catalogue City Of Perth, 2010 ISBN978-0-9808513-1-1 also as Darbyshire, Jo; Perth (W.A. : Municipality) (2010). The coffee pot. City of Perth. ISBN978-0-9808513-1-1.
^Glaskin, G. M. (Gerald Marcus); Steunebrink (1984), One way to wonderland : letters to a pen-friend in Europe, 1938-1945, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN978-0-909144-91-3
^Fisher, Jeremy (2014), O Life: Review of 'Dare me! The life and work of Gerald Glaskin' by John Burbidge: Monash University Publishing, $34.95 pb, 349 pp, 9781921867743, Australian Book Review Inc, ISSN0155-2864
