Peter Daniel Steele AM (22 August 1939 – 27 June 2012) was an Australian poet and academic, a member of the Jesuit order and a Catholic priest, who was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award, for lifetime achievement in poetry, in 2010.
Peter Steele | |
|---|---|
| Born | Peter Daniel Steele 22 August 1939 Perth, Western Australia |
| Died | 27 June 2012 (aged 72) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation(s) | poet and academic |
| Known for | Plenty: Art into Poetry |
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 was Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne and gained an MA and PhD there and joined it English Department in 1966. He later held a Personal Chair in English there and went on to become Emeritus Professor of English at the university. He remained at the university until his death in 2012.[1]
He was much published poet, critic and commentator in books, magazines and journals. He 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, for service to literature and higher education as a poet, author, scholar and teacher, and to the Catholic Church.[2]
Bibliography edit
Poetry edit
- Collections
- Word from Lilliput : poems. 1973.
- Marching on Paradise. 1984.
- Invisible Riders (1999)
- Plenty: Art into Poetry (2003)
- The Whispering Gallery: Art Into Poetry (2006)
- White Knight with Beebox: New and Selected Poems (2008)
- A Local Habitation: Poems and Homilies (2010)
- The Gossip and the Wine (2011)
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saying | 1965 | Steele, Peter (March 1965). "Saying". Meanjin Quarterly. 24 (1): 112. |
Non-fiction edit
- Jonathan Swift: Preacher and Jester (1978)
- The Autobiographical Passion: studies in the self on show (1989)
- "Joseph Brodsky 1940–1996". Tribute. Quadrant. 40 (3): 16–17. March 1996.
- Bread for the Journey: Homilies (2002)
- Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry (2012)
Obituaries edit
Notes edit
- ^ University of Melbourne - Award of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters - Professor Peter Steele Archived 2015-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Austlit - Peter Steele
- ^ "Remembering Peter Steele" by Kate Middleton, Australian Book Review
- ^ "Peter Daniel Steele, AM Priest, Poet, Academic" by Gerald O'Collins, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 July 2012