Paul Knobel

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Paul Knobel (born 1948) is an Australian poet and the author of An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry and its Reception History (2002), a CD-ROM encyclopedia of 1 million words covering 243 languages and 118 countries. It is believed to be the largest work in the field of male homosexuality compiled by one person; Knobel worked on it for 19 years.

He has also published An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Art (2005), a CD-ROM with 8,500 entries.

Knobel is also the author of several books of poetry including Events (1982), A Gay Saga (1999), and Male Homosexuality and Australian English Language Poetry (1999). He has been widely published in Australian periodicals and has also published several poem cards and broadsheets.

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• The Australian National Library Catalogue, Canberra
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