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  • Author:agent Rosemary Dobson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dobson-rosemary
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Who?
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    y separately published work icon The Adelaide Review no. 48 Festival 1988 Z1144133 1988 periodical issue 1988 pg. 26
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems Rosemary Dobson , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z152001 1991 selected work poetry drama North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 215
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century Robert Gray (editor), Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1991 Z27032 1991 anthology poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1991 pg. 189
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    y separately published work icon Untold Lives : A Sequence of Poems Rosemary Dobson , Deakin : Brindabella Press , 1992 Z274362 1992 selected work poetry Deakin : Brindabella Press , 1992 pg. 17
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    y separately published work icon The Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse Susan Lever (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1995 Z566500 1995 anthology poetry biography South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1995 pg. 102
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

    'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.

    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.

    'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Allen and Unwin have a YouTube channel with a number of useful videos on the Anthology.

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 651-652
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 pg. 473-474
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    y separately published work icon The Invisible Thread : One Hundred Years of Words Irma Gold (editor), Canberra : Halstead Press , 2012 Z1878100 2012 anthology extract autobiography essay non-fiction novel poetry prose short story

    An anthology of 100 years of writing by Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, writers.

    The anthology is an official publication of the National Year of Reading 2012 and the Centenary of Canberra 2013.

    Canberra : Halstead Press , 2012
    pg. 126

Works about this Work

The Figure in the Doorway : On the Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Gary Catalano , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 38 no. 10 1994; (p. 28-32)
The Figure in the Doorway : On the Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Gary Catalano , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 38 no. 10 1994; (p. 28-32)
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