Dr Peter Minter
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Dr Peter Minter

Senior Lecturer
Discipline of English and Writing
Phone
+61 2 9351 7448
Address
A22 - Old Teachers' College
The University of Sydney
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Dr Peter Minter is Coordinator of the Indigenous Australian Studies Major and Coordinator of Honours in Indigenous Australian Studies. He is an ARC Chief Investigator on the “AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource” consortium, contributing to the national "BlackWords" Aboriginal literature digital humanities infrastructure project.

A leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, Dr Minter’s expertise is concentrated in Indigenous literatures and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. His work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between Indigenous literatures and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. He is particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between Indigenous poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics. He is uniquely experienced in the history and formation of Australian editing, publishing, critical and archival communities, and is a specialist educator in graduate and postgraduate poetry, poetics and creative writing programs.

Dr Minter is coeditor (with Dr Anita Heiss) of the groundbreaking Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, for which they shared the 2008 “Deadly” Award for outstanding literary achievement. He has also edited and coedited a number of highly regarded anthologies and academic journals, include a special “Ecopoetics and Pedagogy” issue of the A* ERA-ranked journal Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Routledge, 2009), The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, (published in the United States by W.W. Norton & Co.), Espejo De Tierra: Earth Mirror, an anthology of Chilean Mapuche and Australian Aboriginal poetry and art, and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, in 2000. Between 2000 and 2005 he was Poetry Editor of the A ERA-ranked journal Meanjin, where he also guest edited two special issues (“Poetics” 60.2, 2001 and “BlakTimes” 65.1, 2006). He is presently a contributing editor to Blackbox Manifold (UK) and Poetry Editor of the A ERA-ranked journal Overland. His work has been widely translated and anthologised, appearing in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (ed. Tranter and Mead) and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (ed. Kinsella) among others.

  • Aboriginal Literature
  • Aboriginal Poetry and Poetics
  • Australian Literature and Poetry
  • Rhetoric and Aesthetics
  • Ecopoetics and Ecocriticism
  • Romanticism, Modernism and Countermodernism
  • Creative Writing
  • KOCR2612 Introduction to Aboriginal Literature,
  • KOCR3605 Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics,
  • KOCR3612 Transnational Indigenous Poetics, and
  • KCSE3203 Reading Indigenous Writing
  • 2011-continuing: Poetry Editor, Overland
  • 2009-continuing: Contributing Editor, BlackBox Manifold
  • 2000-2005: Poetry Editor, Meanjin
  • 2008, "Deadly" Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Literature for the Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, with co-editor Dr. Anita Heiss
  • 2000, The Age Poetry Book of the Year, awarded to Empty Texas
  • 1996, NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Shortlisted, Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin
Project titleResearch student
RewetiBrendon MCLEOD

Selected publications

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Publications

Books

  • Minter, P. (2003). Morning, Hyphen. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Equipage.

Edited Books

  • Jose, N., Cunnane, M., Goldsworthy, K., Heiss, A., McCooey, D., Minter, P., Moore, N., Webby, E. (2009). The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. New York: W.W Norton & Company.
  • Heiss, A., Minter, P. (2008). Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature. Canada: McGill-Queens University Press.
  • Minter, P., Rojas, G. (2008). Espejo de Tierra = Earth mirror. Australia: Chilean Embassy, Australia.

Book Chapters

  • Minter, P. (2021). All the Trees. In Dan Disney and Matthew Hall (Eds.), New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 55-69). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2021). Indigenous Studies: Australia. In John Frow, Mark Byron, Pelagia Goulimari, Sean Pryor, Julie Rak (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2021). Settlement Defiled: Ventriloquy, Pollution and Nature in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's "The Aboriginal Mother". In Anna Johnston, Elizabeth Webby (Eds.), Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier, (pp. 107-120). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • van Dooren, T., Rooke, D., Sadokierski, Z., Osborne, N., Wiggin, B., Armiero, M., Muecke, S., O'Gorman, E., Adamson, J., Ureta, S., Minter, P., et al (2024). Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons (Forthcoming). Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 11(2-3).
  • Minter, P. (2020). Drifting Dangerously: Pharmacological Art and Simon Reece's "Flotsam and Jetsam". Ceramics Art and Perception, 116, 46-51.
  • Minter, P. (2017). Review of Jean-Francois Vernay's A Brief Take On The Australian Novel. ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures, 1(2), 279-283.

Edited Journals

  • Fagan, K., Kinsella, J., Minter, P. (2009). Editorial introduction: Ecopoetics And Pedagogies. Angelaki, 14(2). [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2006). Meanjin: Indigenous Australia. Meanjin, 65(1).
  • Minter, P. (2001). Meanjin: Poetics. Meanjin, 60(2).

Visual Art

  • Minter, P. (2020). 1. After the Fires, Green Shoots 2. Newnes Plateau Alchemy, Chemical Bonds/Bombs. In: Black & Blue 2. Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba, Australia. [More Information]

Textual Creative Works

  • Minter, P. (2022). 1. The Roadside Bramble 2. The Clearing. In Case of Fire: Poems from the Blue Mountains, (pp. 74 - 76). Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia: Spinebill Press.
  • Minter, P. (2022). From 'Mountain Journal'. In Case of Fire: Poems from the Blue Mountains, (pp. 51 - 53). Katoomba, NSW, Australia: Spinebill Press.
  • Minter, P. (2021). The Giant Dragonfly: A Fire Allegory before The Eternal Rest. Plumwood Mountain Journal, Special Issue N.03, Australia: Plumwood Inc. [More Information]

Other Works

  • Minter, P. (2012). The Clearing. Rabbit number 6, (pp. 55 - 56). Melbourne, Australia, Australia: Rabbit.

Live Performance - Interarts

  • Minter, P. (2009). Prophesize with your pen: can poets change the times they live in?. Festival of Ideas | Writers, Poets and Novels in Times of Change. University of Melbourne, Australia, Australia: Live @ Melbourne.

Recorded / Rendered

  • Minter, P. (2011). Australian Poetry Circa 1988. Newcastle, Australia.

Exhibitions / Events

  • Minter, P., Slade, L. (2009). Poets Paint Words II. Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Heritage Pier Cafe, Sydney, Australia: Sydney Writers' Festival.
  • Minter, P., Slade, L. (2007). Poets Paint Words I. Newcastle, Australia: Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

Festivals

  • Minter, P. (2013). Apoetic: A Festival of Innovative Australian Poetry. Rozelle, Sydney, Australia: NSW Writers' Centre.

Other

  • Minter, P. (2022), Book Launch: "Undercoat: Poems about Paintings", by Mark O’Flynn. [More Information]

2024

  • van Dooren, T., Rooke, D., Sadokierski, Z., Osborne, N., Wiggin, B., Armiero, M., Muecke, S., O'Gorman, E., Adamson, J., Ureta, S., Minter, P., et al (2024). Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons (Forthcoming). Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 11(2-3).

2022

  • Minter, P. (2022). 1. The Roadside Bramble 2. The Clearing. In Case of Fire: Poems from the Blue Mountains, (pp. 74 - 76). Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia: Spinebill Press.
  • Minter, P. (2022), Book Launch: "Undercoat: Poems about Paintings", by Mark O’Flynn. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2022). From 'Mountain Journal'. In Case of Fire: Poems from the Blue Mountains, (pp. 51 - 53). Katoomba, NSW, Australia: Spinebill Press.

2021

  • Minter, P. (2021). All the Trees. In Dan Disney and Matthew Hall (Eds.), New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 55-69). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2021). Indigenous Studies: Australia. In John Frow, Mark Byron, Pelagia Goulimari, Sean Pryor, Julie Rak (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2021). Settlement Defiled: Ventriloquy, Pollution and Nature in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's "The Aboriginal Mother". In Anna Johnston, Elizabeth Webby (Eds.), Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier, (pp. 107-120). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

2020

  • Minter, P. (2020). 1. After the Fires, Green Shoots 2. Newnes Plateau Alchemy, Chemical Bonds/Bombs. In: Black & Blue 2. Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba, Australia. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2020). Drifting Dangerously: Pharmacological Art and Simon Reece's "Flotsam and Jetsam". Ceramics Art and Perception, 116, 46-51.
  • Minter, P. (2020). from "Morning, Hyphen" To collect sky .. The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, (pp. 131 - 131). melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Publishing. [More Information]

2017

  • Minter, P. (2017). A Mount Tomah Companion. Sydney, Australia: Red Room Company. [More Information]
  • Minter, P. (2017). Remembering Sandstone Country. The Kenyon Review, 39(2), (March/April 2017), Gambier, OH, United States of America: Kenyon College.
  • Minter, P. (2017). Remembering Sandstone Country. The Best Australian Poems 2017, (pp. 143 - 144). Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc.

2016

  • Minter, P. (2016). Craft. The Best Australian Poems 2016, Carlton, VIC, Australia: Black Inc.
  • Minter, P. (2016). Everything is Speaking. Biography, (pp. 334 - 338). Honolulu, United States of America: University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Minter, P. (2016). Settlement Defiled: Ventriloquy, Pollution and Nature in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's "The Aboriginal Mother". In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 137-151). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

2015

  • Minter, P. (2015). Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), Judith Wright and Decolonised Transcultural Ecopoetics in Frank Heimans' Shadow Sister. Sydney Studies in English, 41, 61-74. [More Information]

2014

  • Minter, P. (2014). 1. The Eggs 2. Lost Residence. Southerly, 74(3), (pp. 21 - 22). Blackheath, Australia: Brandl & Schlesinger.
  • Kilner, K., Minter, P. (2014). The BlackWords Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature. JASAL, 14(3), 1-10.

2013

  • Minter, P. (2013). 1. Never Return to a Meadow Permit 2. The Roadside Bramble 3. Th e Clearing 4. In the Serious Light of Nothing 5. Cleaning Flakes from Grass 6. Valentinea. (pp. 1 - 42). Hong Kong, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province): Chinese University Press.
  • Minter, P. (2013). Apoetic: A Festival of Innovative Australian Poetry. Rozelle, Sydney, Australia: NSW Writers' Centre.
  • Minter, P. (2013). Archipelagos of Sense: Thinking about a Decolonised Australian Poetics. Southerly, 73(1), 155-169.

2012

  • Minter, P. (2012). 1. Introducing the Overland Emerging Poets Series 2. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Patrick Jones 3. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Sam Langer. Overland Blog (10 September 2012), 10 September 2012, (pp. various - various). Melbourne, Australia: O.L. Society Ltd..
  • Minter, P. (2012). 1. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Astrid Lorange 2. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Ella O'Keefe. Overland Blog (27 September 2012), 27 September 2012, (pp. various - various). Melbourne, Australia: O.L. Society Ltd..
  • Minter, P. (2012). 1. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Fiona Hile 2. Overland Emerging Poets Series: Stephen Nichols. Overland Blog (5th October 2012), 5th October 2012, (pp. various - various). Melbourne, Australia: O.L. Society Ltd..

2011

  • Minter, P. (2011). Australian Poetry Circa 1988. Newcastle, Australia.
  • Minter, P. (2011). Peter Minter reports on the 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry prize for new and emerging poets. Overland, issue 202, (pp. 45 - 45). Victoria, Australia: O.L. Society Ltd..
  • Minter, P. (2011). The Tree, The Tree. Carved Trees, online, (pp. 0 - 0). Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia: Red Room Company.

2010

  • Minter, P. (2010). 1. Claustrophilic Lavalliere. Home & Away 2010 A Trans Tasman Poetry Symposium : All together now, (pp. 1 - 4). Auckland, New Zealand: The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre.
  • Minter, P. (2010). Fugue Moment. Jacket 40, (pp. 7 - 8). NSW, Australia: Australian Literary Management.
  • Fagan, K., Minter, P. (2010). Murdering alphabets, disorienting romance: John Tranter and postmodern Australian poetics. In Rod Mengham (Eds.), The Salt Companion to John Tranter, (pp. 69-95). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Salt Publishing.

2009

  • Fagan, K., Kinsella, J., Minter, P. (2009). Editorial introduction: Ecopoetics And Pedagogies. Angelaki, 14(2). [More Information]
  • Minter, P., Slade, L. (2009). Poets Paint Words II. Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Heritage Pier Cafe, Sydney, Australia: Sydney Writers' Festival.
  • Minter, P. (2009). Prophesize with your pen: can poets change the times they live in?. Festival of Ideas | Writers, Poets and Novels in Times of Change. University of Melbourne, Australia, Australia: Live @ Melbourne.

2008

  • Minter, P. (2008). 1. Gum Leaf Instruments 2. Face of Night 3. Rural. Zoland Poetry: An Annual of Poems Translations & Interviews, (pp. 187 - 187). Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America: Zoland Books Steerforth Press.
  • Heiss, A., Minter, P. (2008). Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature. Canada: McGill-Queens University Press.
  • Minter, P., Rojas, G. (2008). Espejo de Tierra = Earth mirror. Australia: Chilean Embassy, Australia.

2007

  • Minter, P., Slade, L. (2007). Poets Paint Words I. Newcastle, Australia: Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
  • Minter, P. (2007). Settler Cemetery. Poets Paint Words I, (pp. 1 - 2). Newcastle, Australia: Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

2006

  • Minter, P. (2006). 1. Voyager 2. History of the Present 3. Auto Heaven 4. Australiana 5. Fresh Kills. Blue grass, (pp. 1 - 115). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Salt Publishing.
  • Minter, P. (2006). Meanjin: Indigenous Australia. Meanjin, 65(1).
  • Minter, P. (2006). Telling our own stories: Peter Minter talks to artist Brook Andrew. Meanjin, (pp. 141 - 148). Victoria, Australia: Meanjin Company Limited.

2005

  • Minter, P. (2005). 1. Extinction 2. Emperor go godspeed. Cordite Poetry Review 22, (pp. 5 - 6). Carlton South Victoria, Australia: Cordite Press Inc..
  • Minter, P. (2005). 1. Jou 2. Assent 3. Quiet Hunt. The Literary Review, 48(2), (pp. 115 - 115). United States of America: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Literary Review.
  • Minter, P. (2005). A Radical Tonic - Review of 'Minyung Woolah Binnung: What Saying Says' by Lionel Fogarty and 'Smoke Encrypted Whispers' by Samuel Wagan Watson. Australian Book Review, (268), 53.

2004

  • Thorpe, K., Minter, P., Lui-Chivizhe, L., Smith, A. (2004). Indigenous Philosophy in Pedagogy and Research. Synergy, 19.

2003

  • Minter, P. (2003). Morning, Hyphen. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Equipage.

2001

  • Minter, P. (2001). Meanjin: Poetics. Meanjin, 60(2).

2000

  • Minter, P., Brennan, M. (2000). Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. Brooklyn: Paper Bark Press.
  • Minter, P. (2000). John Kinsella's Poetics of Hybridity. In Rod Mengham and Glen Phillips (Eds.), Fairly Obsessive: Essays on the Works of John Kinsella, (pp. 144-158). Nedlands, WA: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature.

Selected Grants

2022

  • Narrative Ecologies of Warragamba Dam, van Dooren T, Minter P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2012

  • The AustLit Resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures, Kilner K, Minter P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)