Rosemary Dobson

Collected by Rosemary Dobson

July–August 2012, no. 343

This volume contains all the poems that Rosemary Dobson wants to preserve. They represent a substantial portion of her output, which seems right for a poet who began with a degree of quiet confidence and poise that belied her youth. From the earliest, published when she was in her twenties ...

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'Osip Mandelstam and Rosemary Dobson: A translation', a new poem by Rosemary Dobson

by Rosemary Dobson •

July–August 2011, no. 333

'Osip Mandelstam and Rosemary Dobson: A translation', a new poem by Rosemary Dobson. ... (read more)

Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark by Susan Sheridan

by Shirley Walker •

February 2011, no. 328

Susan Sheridan’s Nine Lives, a ‘group biography’, analyses the life stories and literary achievements of nine Australian women writers. The purpose, according to Sheridan, is not only to rediscover the life story of each, but also, by exploring their publishing and aesthetic context, to create a ‘fresh configuration’ of our literary history.

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The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson

by Philip Martin •

November 1984, no. 66

Philip Martin reviews 'The Three Fates and Other Poems' by Rosemary Dobson

Sometimes I’ve written reviews ‘because I was invited’, or felt I should. But this is a book I really want to review. And I wasn’t invited: I applied for the job. For close on thirty years I’ve been grateful to Rosemary Dobson, especially for her third book, Child with a Cockatoo (1955), the one through which I came to know her work. Her latest, despite obvious continuities, gives a rather different kind of pleasure, and new reasons for gratitude.

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