Peter McDonald
- January 8, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Peter McDonald |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 28, 1962(1962-10-28) |
| Age | 62 |
| Birthplace | Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | Belfast |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
Peter McDonald Biography
| Name | Peter McDonald |
| Birthday | Oct 28 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
| Place Of Birth | Belfast |
| Home Town | Belfast |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Peter McDonald is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 28, 1962 in Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom. Professor Peter McDonald (born 1962 in Belfast) is a poet, university lecturer and writer of literary criticism. He holds the post of Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford (and where the term “Student” is used for what elsewhere would be termed a “Fellow”).
McDonald’s second collection of poetry was Adam’s Dream (1996); a third, Pastorals, was published by Carcanet in 2004; and a fourth, The House of Clay, appeared from Carcanet in 2007.
In 1991, McDonald published Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts, and his critical and academic work on that poet has continued with his coedited Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice, and a number of articles; he has re-edited, for Faber and Faber, MacNeice’s Collected Poems. More generally, he has been a prolific critic of modern and contemporary poetry, writing both for the national press in Britain and Ireland, and for poetry journals, such as Poetry Review, PN Review, Thumbscrew and Metre. His book Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland discusses poets such as Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. More recently, in Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill, he has challenged contemporary views of poetry and personality with new readings of Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill.
Peter McDonald Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Peter McDonald is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter McDonald 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
McDonald was educated at Methodist College, Belfast, and University College, Oxford. He has been writing poetry since his teens, and was the winner of national young poet competitions in 1978 and 1979. His first published poems were collected in the book Trio Poetry 3 (Blackstaff Press, 1982), and he was publishing poems in the national literary press while still an undergraduate. In 1983, he won Oxford’s Newdigate Prize for poetry, and from 1983-5 he was coeditor of the literary magazine Oxford Poetry. In 1986, he was selected as one of the six writers (including Jo Shapcott and Adam Thorpe) featured in New Chatto Poets. His first full collection of poems, Biting the Wax, was published in 1989.
McDonald has been a university teacher of English for many years. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1988–92, and was Lecturer (subsequently Reader) in English at the University of Bristol from 1992-99. In 1999, he became the first holder of the Christopher Tower Studentship and Tutorship in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, Oxford, also holding a lectureship in the English Faculty of Oxford University.
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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Peter McDonald celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.
Was Peter MacDonald a code talker?
MacDonald knows a few things about defeating enemies, he returned home in the late-1940s a war hero after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps where he served as a Navajo Code Talker from 1944 to 1946.
What did Peter MacDonald do in ww2?
He entered the Marine Corps as a Navajo language code talker during World War II. The war ended soon after his training was complete and he was deployed in post-war China to guard surrendered Japanese officers. After the war, MacDonald earned an electrical engineering degree at the University of Oklahoma.
Is Navajo Code Talker Peter MacDonald still alive?
More than 400 qualified Navajo Code Talkers served during WWII and only four are still living. Marine Corps Veteran Peter MacDonald (pictured above) is one of those four.
What did Peter MacDonald do?
He was also convicted of inciting a riot at tribal headquarters in Window Rock, Arizona in July 1989 during which two of his supporters were shot and killed by tribal police. At the time, MacDonald had been suspended by the tribal council who accused him of taking kickbacks and bribes.
How long did Henry Chee Dodge live?
He died in January 1947 at the age of 86 or 87 before the sixth Tribal Council convened and he could take office. Zhealy Tso was appointed Vice- Chairman in his stead. Chee Dodge passed away in his sleep from complications due to pneumonia on January 7, 1947 in Ganado, Arizona.