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The wild mind of Peter Steele
- Morag Fraser
- 28 May 2010
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When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly grateful following.
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After the Latin
- Peter Steele
- 04 May 2010
1 Comment
They change the sky but not their soul who run .. across the sea: the impartial earth .. gapes for the child of a pauper as for a princeling ... (For Peter Porter)
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Peter Porter in the capital of the English language
- Peter Steele
- 30 April 2010
1 Comment
Feed and clothe this Australian poet and lodge him in a library attached to a music venue, and remarkable things would happen. He made of London a country of the mind, its vices, virtues, constant features and mutability there to be inspected and eventually portrayed.
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New ways of talking about God
- Philip Harvey
- 19 March 2010
2 Comments
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 'God', writes Stephanie Dowrick, 'is a vulnerable neighbour one moment, like a clump of a hundred roots the next; an ancient work of art, then a much-needed hand, a cathedral, a dreamer. Absent here, breath-close there; as often in darkness as in light.'
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Seductive melancholy of a poet's last works
- Carolyn Masel
- 03 April 2009
Vincent Buckley's work evolves from the explicitly religious to the exploration of experience. But when individual and common experience of love, suffering, or conflict is treated with such depth of seriousness, the result is much the same.
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Comradely with Ginsberg
- Philip Harvey
- 21 November 2008
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
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German author wed lucidity to mystery
- Peter Steele
- 09 May 2008
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W. G. Sebald wrote as somebody evolving a new sensory capacity or a new vein of intellectual attention. The Emergence of Memory offers five interviews with him and four essays about him, which show that while he considered life to be 'a grave affair', he also knew sources of joy.
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Mutual charities between saints and beasts
- Peter Steele
- 01 April 2008
1 Comment
Did Colman's mouse, nibbling his ear, provoke him.. indeed to worship?
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CONTRIBUTORS

Peter Steele
- Peter Steele
- 26 July 2007
Peter Steele SJ is a poet and scholar and a longtime contributor to Eureka Street. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. He also holds a a visiting chair at Georgetown University in Washington DC, to which he will return in July.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Joycepoem
- Peter Steele
- 25 July 2007
A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
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Knowledge that eludes the search engine
- Philip Harvey
- 08 March 2007
2 Comments
The poetry of Peter Steele is well-tempered, even when the subject is not. His themes are often modesty, doubt and brokenness, but his uses his grand style to produce measured tones and educated observations.
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The human as such
- Peter Steele
- 08 July 2006
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
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