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Peter Rose Peter Rose i(A33440 works by) (a.k.a. Peter John Rose)
Born: Established: 1955 Wangaratta, Wangaratta area, North East Victoria, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, a member of a well-known sporting family associated with the Australian Rules Football club, Collingwood.

Rose himself pursued a different direction, as a poet and publisher. The author of several books of poetry and the winner of various awards, Rose became a well-known figure in publishing, writing and reviewing circles. In 2001, after an early career in publishing, as Oxford University Press's Australia and New Zealand academic publisher, Rose became editor of the Australian Book Review.

For five years Rose was a judge of the Miles Franklin Award. Rose Boys, his first work of non-fiction, is 'a joint fraternal biography, an unsentimental exploration of an intimate world shared by two, very different individuals'.

( Source: Allen & Unwin website)

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Subject of Feeling Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2015 8587331 2015 selected work poetry

'"Youth and maturity, love and infatuation, memory, music, loss, landscape, Peter Rose exposes the human experience in poems that are gorgeously lucid and often profound. The Subject of Feeling reveals a fearless wisdom, a wry wit and a quiet depth. These poems stop you in your tracks." - Andrea Goldsmith "The poetry of Peter Rose moves from classical Rome to contemporary Australia; from mordant comedy to moving elegy; from searing clarity to teasing obliquity. In his brilliant anatomies of the relationship between 'art' and 'life', the public and the private, Rose shows himself to be a master stylist. But style for Rose is not divorced from experience. Rather, experience is understood as, and through, style, a fact illustrated by the welcome new additions to the 'Catullan Rag', Rose's caustic and hilarious ongoing satire of Australian literary life." -David McCooey "Peter Rose's poems encapsulate a passionate vision of life, fusing sardonic wit, sophisticated irony and unsettling gestures. Through their innovative imagery the poems repristinate the mundane and the quotidian, transforming their experience into a unique revelation of the uncanny and the miraculous. It is the poetry of the ultimate sensations, crystalised in lucid formal transparency and imperceptible rhythmic patterns. It is finally the space where words show their love for the real, and besiege its secrets, with intensity and empathy." - Vrasidas Karalis' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Poetry
y separately published work icon Crimson Crop Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2012 Z1831695 2012 selected work poetry

'Crimson Crop has at its core a series of elegies, several about his late father Bob Rose, and contains new "Catullan" poems - imitations of Catullus that Rose has been writing and publishing since the 1980s.

Parts I and III comprise individual poems, not specifically themed. Part II - the core of the book - comprises a series of elegies and ruminations on death. There are references to the death of Peter's father, Bob Rose (a respected Australian Rules footballer and coach), thus continuing the themes of Peter's bestselling memoir Rose Boys (2001). Part IV comprises fifteen more themed poems in his ongoing series "The Catullan Rag" - a series of satires and love poems in the manner of the great Roman satirist, Catullus. Peter's poetry collection The Catullan Rag (1993) is notorious, in some circles because of its satirising of literary life in Australia.' Source: http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/crimson-crop (Sighted 14/10/2016).

2012 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Poetry
2013 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Poetry
2012 winner Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award
y separately published work icon Roddy Parr Pymble : Fourth Estate , 2010 Z1703006 2010 single work novel 'A witty, seductive and moving novel of a famous writer and his protégé Roddy Parr takes us into the luminous circle of a literary giant. It is a world of family intrigues, importunate fans -- and dark secrets. Roddy Parr is an outsider, an ambitious young man who has just completed his PhD on the legendary David Anthem - a writer regularly tipped to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature. Through his friendship with Anthem′s publisher, the dazzling svengali Julia Collis, Roddy joins the Anthem household as David′s secretary. Julia′s not-so-secret agenda is for him to become David′s biographer. Soon Roddy is indispensable, and finds his new status as insider increasingly addictive. Yet Anthem′s world is steeped in tragedy and its truths are not simple ones' (Publisher website).
2011 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Best Fiction Book
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