Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor. 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, 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,Rose Boys, Notes for Reading a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003. Rose Boys was reissued as a Text Classic in 2013.Text Publishing - Rose Boys by Peter Rose
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.Australian Poetry Library - Peter Rose
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.Prime Minister's Literary Awards - 2013 shortlists
Personal life He has acknowledged his homosexuality,Eureka Street, Vol. 20, No. 4, A poetic word on gay spirituality. Retrieved 22 June 2013 and his work has appeared in the anthology Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets.Library Thing, Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets. Retrieved 22 June 2013
He lives in Melbourne.
Bibliography
Poetry Collections
Donatello in Wangaratta, Hale & Iremonger, 1998 Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publications, 2005 Crimson Crop, UWA Publishing, 2012 The Subject of Feeling, UWA Publishing, 2015
Selected list of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected/notesAnniversary2014Part of the ongoing series of poems The Catullan rag.
Memoir Rose Boys, Allen & Unwin, 2001 Rose Boys, Text Classics, 2013
Fiction A Case of Knives, Allen & Unwin, 2005 Roddy Parr, Fourth Estate, 2010, ISN 9780732290276
Anthology The Best Australian Poems 2007, Black Inc., 2007 The Best Australian Poems 2008, Black Inc., 2008
Selected book and other reviews DateReview articleWork(s) reviewed2011 2014Opera Australia's Don Giovanni, directed by David McVicar at the Sydney Opera House, 7 August 2014.2022
References
External links Dynasties - The Rose Family Collingwood Football Club Prime Minister's Literary Awards The Robert Rose Foundation Australian Poetry Library