Peter Rose (poet)

Peter Rose
BornPeter John Rose
(1955-06-08) 8 June 1955 (age 69)
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1985–present

Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor.[1] For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of Australian Book Review.

Career

Peter Rose was born in Wangaratta on 8 June 1955,[2] and grew up there. Rose belongs to a famous Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother, Robert (1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for Victoria. Rose was educated at Haileybury, Melbourne and Monash University.

Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the Australian Book Review. He has also edited two poetry anthologies.

In 2001, Rose published Rose Boys,[3] a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003. Rose Boys was reissued as a Text Classic in 2013.[4]

In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and in 2011 he judged the National Biography Award. He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive selection of his poetry appears in the Australian Poetry Library.[5]

Rose's poetry has won several awards. The collection Crimson Crop, published in 2012, won a Queensland Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award.[6]

Personal life

He has acknowledged his homosexuality,[7] and his work has appeared in the anthology Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets.[8]

He lives in Melbourne.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Rose, Peter (1990). The house of vitriol. Picador Poetry. Sydney: Pan.
  • — (1993). The Catullan rag. Sydney: Picador.
  • Donatello in Wangaratta, Hale & Iremonger, 1998 ISBN 0-86806-654-0
  • Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publications, 2005 ISBN 978-1-84471-069-0
  • Crimson Crop, UWA Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-1-74258-390-7
  • The Subject of Feeling, UWA Publishing, 2015 ISBN 978-1-74258-688-5
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected/notes
Anniversary 2014 Rose, Peter (Autumn 2014). "Anniversary". Meanjin. 73 (1): 104–105. Part of the ongoing series of poems The Catullan rag.

Memoir

Fiction

  • A Case of Knives, Allen & Unwin, 2005 ISBN 1-74114-536-8
  • Roddy Parr, Fourth Estate, 2010, ISN 9780732290276

Anthology

Book and other reviews

Date Review article Work(s) reviewed
2011 Rose, Peter (September 2011). "In the ring with Susan Sontag" (PDF). Australian Book Review. 334: 20–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016.
  • Nunez, Sigrid. Sempre Susan : a memoir of Susan Sontag. Atlas & Co.
  • Rieff, David. Swimming in a sea of death : a son's memoir. Melbourne University Press.
2014 Rose, Peter (September 2014). "Don Giovanni". Australian Book Review. 364: 38. Opera Australia's Don Giovanni, directed by David McVicar at the Sydney Opera House, 7 August 2014.
2022 Rose, Peter (October 2022). "Unconditional refusal : a stark and uncompromising memoir". Australian Book Review. 447: 31–32. Burns, Shannon (2022). Childhood. Melbourne: Text Publishing.

References

  1. ^ "Dynasties: The Rose Family". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  2. ^ John Arnold; John Hay, eds. (2000). The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P-Z. University of Queensland Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-7022-4031-7.
  3. ^ Rose Boys, Notes for Reading Archived 20 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Text Publishing - Rose Boys by Peter Rose
  5. ^ Australian Poetry Library - Peter Rose
  6. ^ Prime Minister's Literary Awards - 2013 shortlists
  7. ^ Eureka Street, Vol. 20, No. 4, A poetic word on gay spirituality. Retrieved 22 June 2013
  8. ^ Library Thing, Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets. Retrieved 22 June 2013