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. His new novel, Roddy Parr, has just been released by 4th Estate.
He lives in Melbourne.
Books by Peter Rose
-
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.
Details -
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.
Details -
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.
Details -
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.
Details -
Roddy Parr
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.
Literary insider Peter Rose has created an irresistible novel of ambition, passion and moral dilemmas.
Read Jo Case’s interview with Peter from the Readings Monthly here.
Peter Rose talks to Kevin Rabelais for the Australian here.
Details