Peter Minter
Poet
Peter Minter is a highly regarded, multi-award winning poet, editor, reviewer and academic who has published creative and critical work in a wide range of national and international journals, magazines and anthologies. He has recently published his fifth volume of poems, blue grass.
His most recent projects include co-editing the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature and the forthcoming Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. He lectures in Indigenous Studies and Poetics at the University of Sydney.
Peter is an academic at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. He was founding editor of the Varuna New Poetry broadsheet, a founding editor of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, and co-editor of Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. He holds fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australian Council for the Arts.
Born in Newcastle of Scottish, English and Aboriginal ancestry, his writing, teaching and research activities are strongly focused on indigenous literary, cultural and political studies.
Peter was poetry editor of Meanjin from 2000 to 2005 and guest editor of a special ‘Indigenous Australia' issue of Meanjin, published in March 2006. His work is anthologised in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry and numerous other Australian and international publications.
Peter and his coeditor, Dr Anita Heiss, recently shared the 2008 'Deadly' Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Indigenous Literature for their Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature.
Peter's first book, Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, was short-listed for the 1996 New South Wales Premier's Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. He received the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry in 1999 and was awarded The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2000 for Empty Texas.
