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Peter Minter
Peter Minter is a poet, editor, publisher and teacher living in Sydney. He lectures in Indigenous Cultural Studies and Poetics at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney, and edits poetry for the eminent Australian print journal, Meanjin.
His first chapbook of poems, Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, was shortlisted for the 1996 NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and his first full-length volume, Empty Texas, won the 2000 Age Poetry Book of the Year award. He has also published chapbooks with Folio (Salt) and Vagabond Press, and the complete volume of his Morning, Hyphen series has been accepted for publication by Equipage Press, Cambridge UK.
Since 1995 he has founded and edited publications such as the Varuna New Poetry broadsheets and Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, and in 2000 co-edited Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. His poetry and critical essays have been published throughout Australia and internationally in publications such as The Age, The Australian Book Review, Ariel View, Avernus, Boxkite, The Chicago Review, The Cortland Review, Heat, Hermes, Hobo, Jacket, Meanjin, papertiger, Picador New Writing 4, PLASTIC, Poetry Australia, The Prague Review, Salt, scarp, Semtext, Slope, Southerly, Stand, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney Review, Thylazine, Ulitarra, Verse, Westerly, and in the special Australian editions of Poetry Review, Verse and The Atlanta Review. His work has been anthologised in Catalyst, Interactive Geographies, Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry and New Music.
He is presently writing a volume of new poems, blue grass, and an ongoing poetic journal project called arc hive.
'What is remarkable is the economy of means through which Minter manages conclusive, unillusioned, poetic and visionary possibility.'
~ Times Literary Supplement
'Genuinely exhilarating, assured and truly seductive, with a control of mood and precision of vocabulary and lineation that are truly winning. Peter Minter's poems unlock the fission of language.'
~ Australian Book Review
'Something of a virtuoso.'
~ The Age
Links
- Poetry Editor, Meanjin
- Founding Editor, Cordite
- Poetry online – Jacket Magazine
- Poetry online – Australian poetry supplement at How2Connect
- Poetry online – Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetics, 2000
- Poetry online – Cortland Review, 1998