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The collected verse of Mary Gilmore
Edited by Mary Gilmore and Jennifer Strauss
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press, 2004
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Book description
Though probably the only Dame of the British Empire to write a regular
column for a Communist newspaper, it was as a poet that Mary Gilmore wanted
to be remembered when she died in 1962. She had been publishing poems since
the 1880s.
But changing tastes as well as newcomers eager for attention have consigned
her to a quiet corner in anthologies of Australian poetry.
This fully annotated variorum edition will make Gilmore’s remarkable
achievement visible again. Gilmore had over 1360 poems published between
1887 and 1960. Of those, over 500 had never appeared in collections.
Volume 1 brings together many of these poems for the first time, gathered
from varied and sometimes inaccessible sources ranging from The Barrier
Miner to the National Library of Uruguay. These virtually unknown works
are complemented by poems from collections including Marri’d and
Other Verses (1910) and The Passionate Heart (1918). These
collections, selected for different times, tended to showcase her more
‘womanly’ poems, playing down the harsher, more roughly made poems of social
protest. For the first time, these poems stand side by side, and a truer
picture of Gilmore’s work emerges.
The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore Volume 1: 1887–1929 is part of
the Academy Editions of Australian Literature. The Academy Editions
are committed to more than the textual aspects of scholarly editing; they
embrace the needs of modern readers by providing the historical
introductions and annotations needed in order to engage richly with the
literature of a previous age and different culture. [UQP]
About the author
Associate Professor Jennifer Strauss is an Honorary Associate in the
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University.
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