Peter Rose
Peter Rose grew up in country Victoria and belongs to a well-known sporting family. He is a poet, memoirist and novelist as well as being the editor of the Australian Book Review and the former publisher of Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Peter’s memoir Rose Boys won the National Biography Award in 2002. In 2005 he published a new collection of poetry Rattus Rattus: new and selected poems and his first novel, A Case of Knives.
He divides his time between Melbourne and Adelaide.
Books by Peter Rose
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Rose Boys
Rose Boys is the story of two brothers who are profoundly different, yet compellingly linked by blood ties, a famous sporting family and the terrible misfortune that befell one of them. Above all, it is a family memoir of rare penetration and candour.
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A Case of Knives
Witty, satirical and full of intrigue, set against a backdrop of opera, publishing and politics, Peter Rose's first novel is unlike any other Australian fiction.
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Rattus Rattus
Rattus Rattus combines Peter Rose’s latest poetry with almost 100 poems from his first three collections, which have made him one of the most individual voices in Australian poetry. Rose’s poetry, always intimate and challenging, ranges from personal subjects and private epiphanies to the satirical and the mordant. Readers of this long-awaited Selected Poems will particularly enjoy his continuing series of Catullan satires.
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The Best Australian Poems 2007
In The Best Australian Poems 2007, Peter Rose collects many of the outstanding poems of the previous year. Among the poets are some of the abiding luminaries of Australian poetry, along with some impressive if unfamiliar new voices. Peter Rose writes in his introduction, ‘I have looked for poetry that is, if not reductively personal, then highly expressive and resonant and open-hearted’. This entertaining anthology makes a fine entrée to the pleasures and provocations of Australian poetry today.
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