Literary Studies

Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Item: Author! Author!
Author: Peter Steele

by Peter Steele •

October 1998, no. 205

OUP $26.95 hb, 294 pp

Literary Studies

Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

by Peter Steele •

October 1998, no. 205

‘Anecdotes’ meant originally ‘the unpublished’ – sometimes, no doubt, the unprintable. Nowadays we think of them as being tales which have something or other up their sleeves: a morsel of irony, a pinch of encouragement, a gesture of affectation. Anecdotes are yarns which have had a couple of drinks.

Peter Steele

Peter Steele (1939–2012) was a poet, academic, Jesuit priest, and Professor Emeritus of English literature at the University of Melbourne. His publications included seven books of poetry: Word from Lilliput (1973), Marching on Paradise (1973), Invisible Riders (1999), Plenty: Art into Poetry (2003), The Whispering Gallery: Art into Poetry (2006), White Knight with Bee-Box: New and Selected Poems (2009), and The Gossip and the Wine (2010). He wrote for ABR many times between 1982 and 2012.