The Catullan Rag

The second collection of the author's poetry, which includes 'Vantage', winner of the St Kilda Centenary Poetry Prize in 1990, and 'The Catullan Rag' and 'Dog Days', which won the Queensland Premier's Poetry Prize in 1991 and 1992 respectively. The author is a publisher with Oxford University Press (Australia) and his previous collection was 'The House of Vitriol' (1990), of which Peter Craven wrote: '... the most impressive new book of poetry to appear in the last decade. It places Peter Rose in the mainstream of Australian writing, alongside such accomplished figures as Porter and Murray'.