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Peter Rose. Courtesy Salt Publishing.
Peter Rose (born 1955) is an award-winning Australian poet, memoirist, novelist and editor.[1]
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.
Recognition[]
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.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The House of Vitriol. Sydney: Pan, 1990.
- The Catullan Rag. Sydney: Picador, 1993.
- Donatello in Wangaratta. Alexandria, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1998.
- Rattus Rattus: New and selected poems. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2005.
- Crimson Crop. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2012.
Novels[]
- A Case of Knives. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005.
- Roddy Parr. Pymble, NSW: Fourth Estate, 2010.
Non-fiction[]
- Rose Boys (memoir). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2001.
Edited[]
- The Best Australian Poems, 2008. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008.[3]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat..[4]
References[]
- ↑ "Dynasties: The Rose Family". http://www.abc.net.au/dynasties/txt/s982946.htm. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ↑ Rose Boys, Notes for Reading
- ↑ Mr. Peter Rose, Flinders University. Web, Jan. 28, 2015.
- ↑ Search results = Peter Rose 1955, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 28, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Subject of Feeling"
- Peter Rose (1955– ) in the Australian Poetry Library (239 poems)
- Audio / video
- About
- Etc.
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