Peter Rose (poet)

Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor.

Rose belongs to a famous Collingwood Football Club family.

His brother, Robert (1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for Victoria.

He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries.

[6] He has acknowledged his homosexuality,[7] and his work has appeared in the anthology Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets.