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Peter Minter Peter Minter i(A2397 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Scottish ; English
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1 The Hunter i "The hunter falls to his knees, sheds the", Peter Minter , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 July 2021; (p. 15)
1 These Old Bones of Mine i "at first", Peter Minter , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
1 To Collect Sky... i "To collect sky to trace out repetition. Wet sand condenses over", Peter Minter , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 131)
1 Two Poems from Mountain Journal i "Grey cover rain approaching", Peter Minter , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 71-72)
1 Remembering Sandstone Country i "The road is long, always bending winding", Peter Minter , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 123-124)
1 [Review] A Brief Take on the Australian Novel Peter Minter , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Ab-Original , vol. 1 no. 2 2017; (p. 279-283)
— Review of A Brief Take on the Australian Novel Jean-François Vernay , 2016 multi chapter work criticism
1 The Indigenous Australian Novel Peter Minter , Belinda Wheeler , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 2017; (p. 284-299)

'Emerging in the second half of the twentieth century from the traditions of the oldest living cultures on earth - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia - the Indigenous Australian novel makes a unique contribution to the history of the novel in its contemporary phase...' (Introduction) 
1 A Letter to You i "I can't think of anything. I have nothing to say.", Peter Minter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing to the Wire 2016; (p. 121)
1 Craft i "The craft of my enemy is my only aim", Peter Minter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2016 2016; (p. 132) Meanjin Online 2016; Meanjin , Autumn vol. 75 no. 1 2016; (p. 35)
1 John Cage Quartets i "I drive down a road in a tunnel of branches", Peter Minter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 30) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 30)
1 Everything is Speaking i "I go to sleep near the infants", Peter Minter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Biography , Summer vol. 39 no. 3 2016;
1 Settlement Defiled : Ventriloquy, Pollution and Nature in Eliza Hamilton Dunlops' 'The Aboriginal Mother' Peter Minter , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia 2016; (p. 137-151) Eliza Hamilton Dunlop : Writing from the Colonial Frontier 2021;
1 The 2015 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize Toby Fitch , Peter Minter , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 222 2016; (p. 23-24)

Writing in June 1971 to the classical scholar and poet Martin Robertson, Judith Wright fondly remarked on a young man who was caretaking ‘Calanthe’, her forest home:

Now I am here again, and sharing the house with one of Meredith’s friends, a delightful young man who is reading his way onwards through all my books, hasn’t a penny and is technically on the run from the police, being a draft resister. [...] He has a very good mind, the kind that turns things over and comes up with the other side of them unexpectedly two days later as though the conversation was still going on. (Introduction)
1 The Suspended Image i "How long will this go on? The spruce", Peter Minter , 2016 single work poetry essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2016;
1 Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), Judith Wright and Decolonised Transcultural Ecopoetics in Frank Heimans’ ‘Shadow Sister’ Peter Minter , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sydney Studies in English , no. 41 2015; 'Aboriginal poet and activist Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Anglo-Australian poet Judith Wright shared an intense and multi-layered friendship over many decades. In Frank Heimans’ classic 1977 documentary ‘Shadow Sister: A Film Biography of Australian Aboriginal Poet Kath Walker’, Wright visits Walker at her home at Moongalba on Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island), and in a compelling sequence of scenes they share a lively discourse that reveals a curious and complex assemblage of cultural, political and aesthetic formations. Prompted by Walker’s gift to Wright of a ‘Stradbroke Island Orchid’, this essay proposes a decolonised transcultural ecopoetics in which Walker’s Aboriginal land-rights activism and Wright’s counter-cultural environmentalism are synthesised in a sororal, cross-cultural feminist framework that disrupts western patrilineal, colonial epistemes. Walker and Wright’s decolonised transcultural ecopoetics is shown to be an exemplar of late-modernism in Australia, and a unique antipodean contribution to a transformational planetary environmentalism.' (Publication abstract)
1 Emerging Poet Series : Berndt Sellheim Peter Minter (interviewer), 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2015;
1 Graceful Asymmetries : Judge’s Report for the 2014 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Peter Minter , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 218 2015; (p. 82-83)
1 Nothing Satisfies i "The extraordinary trickles, just as expected.", Peter Minter , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , March no. 14 2015; (p. 31)
1 The Handwriting of Marianne Moore i "In the generation before mine they wrote about the world", Peter Minter , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 April 2015; (p. 19)
1 Emerging Poets Series : Marissa McDowell Peter Minter , 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2015;
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