Cecily Crozier Cecily Crozier i(A54229 works by) (a.k.a. Cecily Green)
Gender: Female
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1 Untitled Cecily Crozier , 1947 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Comment , Winter no. 26 1947; (p. 20)
1 New Country Cecily Crozier , 1944 single work column
— Appears in: Comment , July no. 20 1944; (p. 2)
1 Sand Cecily Crozier , 1944 single work short story
— Appears in: Comment , January no. 18 1944; (p. 4, 6)
1 y separately published work icon Tails Up Sylvia Green , Eila Green , Cecily Crozier (editor), Melbourne : Comment Publications , 1944 Z1066180 1944 selected work poetry children's fiction children's Each story in this collection is about pet dogs and the humans who care for them.
1 Untitled Cecily Crozier , 1942 single work column
— Appears in: Comment , October no. 13 1942; (p. 9)
1 Parfum Exotique i "When, my eyes closed, on an Autumn night", Charles Baudelaire , 1942 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , October no. 13 1942; (p. 6)
1 Untitled Cecily Crozier , 1941 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Comment , July no. 6 1941; (p. inserted after page 10)
1 Angry Penguins Cecily Crozier , 1941 single work review
— Appears in: Comment , May no. 5 1941; (p. 14)

— Review of Angry Penguins 1940-1943 periodical (9 issues)
1 Untitled i "they walk down the street", Cecily Crozier , 1941 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , May no. 5 1941; (p. 11)
1 Cafe Concert i "She walked, for walking, using curvulatious hips for swinging at...", Cecily Crozier , Irvine Green , 1941 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , March no. 4 1941; (p. 15)
1 Untitled Cecily Crozier , 1941 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Comment , November no. 8 1941; (p. 11)
1 Tears for a Dead Bird i "the grass is high, there are purple patches in the grass,", Cecily Crozier , 1940-1941 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , Christmas no. 3 1940-1941; (p. 12)
1 As in a Dream Cecily Crozier , 1940-1941 single work prose
— Appears in: Comment , Christmas no. 3 1940-1941; (p. 9)
1 Windy Afternoon i "Wildly shaking trees", Cecily Crozier , 1940 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , November no. 2 1940; (p. 13)
1 Le Bon Dieu Cecily Crozier , 1940 single work short story
— Appears in: Comment , November no. 2 1940; (p. 10-12)
1 Untitled Cecily Crozier , 1940 single work column
— Appears in: Comment , November no. 2 1940; (p. 3)
1 Untitled i "green are her eyes.", Cecily Crozier , 1940 single work poetry
— Appears in: Comment , September no. 1 1940; (p. 7)
1 17 y separately published work icon Comment Cecily Crozier (editor), 1940 Melbourne : Bradley Printers , 1940-1947 Z824006 1940 periodical (25 issues)

The first issue of Comment was published in September 1940. Edited by Cecily Crozier, the magazine declared that it would 'put into print the newest ideas in writing and design.' A year later an editorial claimed that Comment 'offer[s] . . . reading of a type not found in any other Australian publication, and we give Australia's writers and designers an opportunity of having published work that other more popular magazines find unprofitable to print.' These comments coincided with a call for subscriptions because the magazine was running at a loss. But despite a low circulation, Comment ran for another six years.

Comment promoted experimentation, publishing the work of some of Australia's most prominent modernists of the 1940s, including Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor and Alister Kershaw. The work of the visiting Americans Karl Shapiro and Harry Roskolenko also appeared regularly in Comment, raising awareness of artistic developments in the United States. The international interests of the magazine also extended to European literature, supporting translations of Kafka, Baudelaire and Maupassant.

Comment continued to run at a loss, forcing Crozier and others to pay production costs. The additional one hundred and fifty subscribers required to continue production were not found after Crozier's plea for more subscribers in early 1947. In the Winter issue, Crozier announced that it would be the last for 'some time' and offered subscribers a refund for the remaining issues of 1947. She suggested alternately that subscribers could wait until the reappearance of Comment in the future, remaining hopeful of changing fortunes. But the Winter issue of 1947 remained the last.

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