Nationality Australian Role Poet | Name Peter Steele Occupation poet and academic | |
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Full Name Peter Daniel Steele Born 22 August 1939 ( 1939-08-22 ) Perth, Western Australia, Australia Known for Plenty: Art into Poetry Died June 27, 2012, Kew Vic, Melbourne, Australia Books Braiding the Voices: Essays in, The Gossip and the Wine, White Knight with Beebox, Medical Handbook for Walke, The Man Who Mapped t | ||
Alma mater University of Melbourne | ||
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Peter Daniel Steele AM (22 August 1939 – 27 June 2012) was an Australian poet and academic, who was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award, for lifetime achievement in poetry, in 2010.
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- Peter steele type o negative interview 24 10 2009
- Peter steele on divinity type o negative anesthesia second chances children facing the future
- Poetry collections
- Non Fiction
- Obituaries
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Steele was educated at Christian Brothers' College, Perth; Loyola College, Melbourne; the University of Melbourne; Canisius College, Sydney and the Jesuit Theological College, Melbourne. He gained an MA and PhD from the University of Melbourne and joined the academic staff there in 1966. He later administered the Department of English and held a Personal Chair in English there; he went on to become Emeritus Professor of English at the university. He remained at the university until his death in 2012.
Steele was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, at Georgetown University and at Loyola University Chicago.
In 2012 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for service to literature and higher education as a poet, author, scholar and teacher, and to the Catholic Church.