Peter Macrow is a former tutor and lecturer in European
Literature at the University of Tasmania and for 14 years
was a Sound Librarian at the ABC.
He writes haiku and longer poems, book reviews and fiction,
and his work has been published not only in Australia but
also in New Zealand, Japan,
the United States, Canada, Scotland, Belgium, Bulgaria
and England.
Since December 2000 when his
first published poem appeared in Famous Reporter, Peter
has had several hundred poems published, as
well as book reviews, an animal alphabet, the first
chapter
of Goldbec the Mole, an animal fantasy for kidults,
and The Golden Ball, a play with verse for children.
He edited 2 issues of Republic Readings, a chapbook
series (n. 8, September 2004; n.9, December 2004). Peter
Macrow was invited to be poetry editor of the Melbourne-based
print journal, The Other Side, for one issue.
He is the founding editor of the poetry chapbook series, Blue
Giraffe -- the first issue came out in June 2005.
(Entry updated:
6 January, 2011
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