Noel Rowe (20 June 1951 – 11 July 2007) was a poet who lived in Sydney, Australia, and was senior lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney where he was also awarded the University Medal (1984) and doctorate (1989).
[1] Rowe was born in Macksville in northern New South Wales on 20 June 1951.
[2] He also, with Vivian Smith, edited Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry (Pandanus Books, 2006).
In 2005, Rowe was awarded the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize for poetry.
In 2015 the Noel Rowe Poetry Award was set up by Vagabond Press to be presented every two years for an unpublished manuscript by an emerging poet.