Peter Rose | |
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Born | Peter John Rose 8 June 1955 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1985–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 .
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]
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.
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected/notes |
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Anniversary | 2014 | Rose, Peter (Autumn 2014). "Anniversary". Meanjin. 73 (1): 104–105. | Part of the ongoing series of poems The Catullan rag. |
Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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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. |
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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. |