Rosemary Dobson

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Rosemary Dobson (b. 1920) is an award winning Australian poet.

Born in Sydney Rosemary Dobson attended Frensham School, and later worked as an editor for the publisher Angus and Robertson. Her first collection (In a Convex Mirror) appeared in 1944 and many more have followed since. She was married to the publisher Alec Bolton, they 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).

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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 020712809X
Greek Coins: A sequence of poems. (Brindabella, 1977) ISBN 0909422052
Over the frontier. (Angus & Robertson, 1978) ISBN 020713636X
The Continuance of Poetry. (Brindabella, 1981) ISBN 0909422095
The Three Fates & Other Poems. (Hale & Iremonger, 1984) ISBN 0868061336
Seeing and Believing. (NLA, 1990) ISBN 0642105006
Collected poems. (Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1991) ISBN 0207168644
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 0708101410
Seven Russian Poets: Imitations. with David Campbell (UQP, 1980) ISBN 0702214183

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 0855870648

Secondary sources