Peter Daniel Steele AM (22 August 1939 – 27 June 2012) was an Australian poet and academic at the University of Melbourne.
Peter Daniel Steele was born on 22 August 1939, the eldest of three sons, to an English immigrant father and Irish-English-Australian mother, Jesse.
[3] 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][1] Other recognition and honours include: Steele died of liver cancer[1] several years after diagnosis,[5] on 27 June 2012 at Caritas Christi Hospice in Kew, Melbourne, aged 72.
[1] The Peter Steele Poetry Award is a scholarship available to PhD students at the University of Melbourne,[6] funded by the Peter Steele Poetry Trust Fund, which was established by Susan Crennan AC QC in November 2017.