Peter Rose (poet)



Peter Rose (born 1955) is an award-winning Australian poet, memoirist, novelist and editor.

Life
Peter Rose belongs to a notable Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob Rose, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother, Robert Rose (1952-1999), played for Collingwood and opened the batting for Victoria before an accident left him a quadriplegic in 1974.

Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta and 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 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.

In 2001 Peter Rose published Rose Boys, a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003.

Personal life
Peter Rose wrote about his childhood and adolescence in Rose Boys.

Poetry

 * The House of Vitriol. Sydney: Picador, 1990. ISBN 0330271989.
 * The Catullan Rag. Sydney: Picador, 1993. ISBN 0330274155.
 * Donatello in Wangaratta. Alexandria, NSW: Hale and Iremonger, 1998. ISBN 0868066540.
 * Rattus Rattus: New and Selected PoemsCambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2005. ISBN 9781844710690.
 * Crimson Crop. Brisbane: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2012. ISBN 9781742583907.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Australian Poetry Library. ''

Memoir

 * Rose Boys, Allen & Unwin, 2001 ISBN 9781865086392.

Fiction

 * A Case of Knives, Allen & Unwin, 2005 ISBN 1741145368.
 * Roddy Parr, Fourth Estate, 2010, ISN 9780732290276.

Edited

 * The Best Australian Poems 2007, Black Inc., 2007 ISBN 9781863954174.
 * The Best Australian Poems 2008, Black Inc., 2008 ISBN 9781863953050.