Rosemary Dobson
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Rosemary Dobson (born 1920) is an award winning Australian poet.
Rosemary Dobson was born in Sydney, attended Frensham School, and later worked as an editor for the publisher Angus and Robertson.[1] Her first collection (In a Convex Mirror) appeared in 1944 and many more have followed since. She married the publisher Alec Bolton, and they have had three children. Among her accolades are the Patrick White Award (1984), the Grace Leven Prize (1984) and the Australia Council Writer’s Emeritus Award (1996) and The Age Book of the Year for Poetry (2001).
[edit] Bibliography
Poetry
- In a Convex Mirror. (Dymocks, 1944)
- The Ship of Ice. (Angus & Robertson, 1948)
- Child With a Cockatoo. (Angus & Robertson, 1955)
- Cock Crow. (Angus & Robertson, 1965)
- Selected Poems. (Angus & Robertson, 1973) ISBN 0-207-12809-X
- Greek Coins: A sequence of poems. (Brindabella, 1977) ISBN 0-909422-05-2
- Over the frontier. (Angus & Robertson, 1978) ISBN 0-207-13636-X
- The Continuance of Poetry. (Brindabella, 1981) ISBN 0-909422-09-5
- The Three Fates & Other Poems. (Hale & Iremonger, 1984) ISBN 0-86806-133-6
- Seeing and Believing. (NLA, 1990) ISBN 0-642-10500-6
- Collected poems. (Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1991) ISBN 0-207-16864-4
- Untold Live & Later Poems. (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2000) ISBN 1-876040-26-2
Translation
- Moscow Trefoil: Poems from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam. with David Campbell and Natalie Staples (ANU, 1975) ISBN 0-7081-0141-0
- Seven Russian Poets: Imitations. with David Campbell (UQP, 1980) ISBN 0-7022-1418-3
Non-Fiction
- Focus on Ray Crooke. (UQP, 1971) ISBN 0-7022-0702-0
- A World of Difference: Australian poetry and painting in the 1940s. (Wentworth Press, 1973) ISBN 0-85587-064-8
Secondary sources
- Hooton, Joy (ed). Rosemary Dobson: A celebration. (NLA, 2000) ISBN 0-642-10728-9
[edit] External links
- The Three Fates a poem
- Interview by John Tranter
[edit] References
- ^ Rosemary Dobson Contents Page (Australian Literature Resources) Accessed: February 13, 2007.
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| NAME | Dobson, Rosemary |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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