Peter Rose

Peter Rose

Peter Rose is a poet, memoirist and novelist who grew up in country Victoria. Throughout the 1990s he was the publisher at Oxford University Press and since 2001 he has been Editor of Australian Book Review.

His first poetry collection, The House of Vitriol, was published in 1990 – The Subject of Feeling is his sixth collection since then. He has published two novels, the most recent being Roddy Parrin 2010, and his family memoir, Rose Boys, published in 2001, won the 2003 National Biography Award.