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Rodney Hall, launching The Collected Verse of Mary Gilbert. |
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Launch of The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1, 1887-1929
On 27 October 2005 the Academy was proud to launch the seventh title in the Academy editions of Australian Literature series. The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1, 1887-1929 was edited by Jennifer Strauss and published in conjunction with University of Queensland Press. Novelist and poet, Rodney Hall, launched the successful event at Wagga Wagga City Library.
Mary Gilmore was Australia's foremost woman poet during the first half of the twentieth century as well as an activist concerned with indigenous and environmental issues. Volume 1 of a two volume text unites 388 poems previously uncollected poems with those published. In this variorum edition her poetry has benefited from scholarly scrutiny, reliable texts, alternate readings and annotation.
