{"id":233,"date":"2014-03-05T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-03-05T23:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:34:18","slug":"peter-steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Peter Steele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PeterSteele.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60\" alt=\"Braidingthevoicescover\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PeterSteele-300x167.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PeterSteele-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PeterSteele.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Steele, who was born in Perth in 1939, moved to Melbourne in 1957 to join the Jesuits, of whom he remained a member. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, his base for a lifetime of teaching and writing, along with the equivalent of several years at universities in Chicago, New York and Washington DC. Alongside numerous books of poetry, including\u00a0\u2018<em>The Gossip and the Wine<\/em>\u2019\u00a0(JLP, 2010) and\u00a0\u2018<em>White Knight with Beebox: New and Selected Poems<\/em>\u2019\u00a0(JLP, 2008),\u00a0\u00a0he published books of literary criticism, including studies of Jonathan Swift and Peter Porter.<\/p>\n<p>With great sadness, we record that Peter Steele died on June 27, 2012. He was an outstanding presence throughout his life as a priest, a university teacher, a writer of criticism and a poet. John Leonard Press published three of his last volumes:\u00a0<em>White Knight with Beebox: New and Selected Poems<\/em>;<em>\u00a0The Gossip and the Wine,\u00a0<\/em>poems; and\u00a0<em>Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry.\u00a0<\/em>This last was published two weeks before Peter died. He was able to read it through and enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Peter\u2019s poems from the two poetry books are reproduced on this website.<\/p>\n<p>His life and work are celebrated by Morag Fraser in\u00a0<em>The beauty that was Peter Steele\u2019s mind<\/em>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekastreet.com.au\/article.aspx?aeid=32067\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Eureka Street<\/a>; and Brendan Byrne in\u00a0<em>The eloquence of God<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekastreet.com.au\/article.aspx?aeid=32134\" target=\"_blank\">Eureka Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo:\u00a0Jim McDermott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Steele, who was born in Perth in 1939, moved to Melbourne in 1957 to join the Jesuits, of whom he remained a member. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, his base for a lifetime of teaching and writing, along with the equivalent of several years at universities in Chicago, New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}