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In this work, Dobson and Campbell published 'imitations', rather than 'translations' of the poems of seven Russian poets - Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Olga Berggolts, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaia, and Yunna Morits. A literal English translation of each Russian poem was examined and used as a foundation for new works created by Dobson and Campbell in the style of the Russian poets.

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Author note: 'We have given the title in English to those poems which had a title in the original Russian. We have given the opening words of each poem in transliterated Russian.'
Author note: 'We do not present these poems as translations but rather as imitations of the originals, re-created in English.'

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Hautes Fenêtres : Thoughts on the Place of Translation in Recent Australian Poetry Simon West , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 333 2011; (p. 54-58)

Imitations and Versions of Russian Poetry : The Record of an Experiment Rosemary Dobson , 1983 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 1 1983; (p. 94-99)

Translations from the Life-Text Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Helix , no. 7/8 1981; (p. 174-176)
— Review of Seven Russian Poets : Imitations Rosemary Dobson , David Campbell , 1979 selected work poetry

Untitled Barry O'Donohue , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 8 no. 2 1980; (p. 93-96)
— Review of Seven Russian Poets : Imitations Rosemary Dobson , David Campbell , 1979 selected work poetry ; Poems from The Age, 1967-79 1979 anthology poetry

Asserting the Personal Bruce Pascoe , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 24 1980; (p. 18)
— Review of Seven Russian Poets : Imitations Rosemary Dobson , David Campbell , 1979 selected work poetry

Poets Who Publish Their Own Geoffrey Dutton , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 January vol. 100 no. 5193 1980; (p. 50-51)
— Review of The Forbidden City : Poems R. A. Simpson , 1979 selected work poetry ; Sisters Poets, 1 Anne Lloyd , Kate Llewellyn , Joyce Lee , Susan Hampton , 1979 anthology selected work poetry ; The Man in the Honeysuckle : Poems David Campbell , 1979 selected work poetry ; Poems Ian Templeman , 1979 selected work poetry ; Passacaglia and Fugue Timoshenko Aslanides , 1979 selected work poetry ; Seven Russian Poets : Imitations Rosemary Dobson , David Campbell , 1979 selected work poetry ; The Fabulous Dross T. H. Naisby , 1979 selected work poetry ; Pyrobolontas Te Monaxia Terry Mazarakis , 1979 selected work poetry ; Tide Pools and Other Verse Frank McMahon , 1979 selected work poetry