Pulse

Peter Knight lives in the world’s second most isolated major city, Perth, Western Australia, on the fringe of a continental desert and the sparsely populated eastern shore of the Indian Ocean. He worked as a lawyer, mostly as an employee of the Australian Securities & Investment Commission for 25 years. Prior to that he worked as a clerk for government legal entities including the Family Court & the Perth Court of Petty Sessions. Before that he worked in unskilled jobs and as a trainee psychiatric nurse in now defunct mental asylums in Sydney & New Norfolk, Tasmania. That experience influenced how he perceives the range of the human condition. In his early 20’s he lived in other Australian cities & in Greater Manchester, UK, where his wife Audrey grew up. In relative isolation he developed his own selection and treatment of the subject matters of his poems, tending to a philosophic or surrealist approach and avoiding intellectual pretension.