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Rosemary Dobson

  • Surely everyone who writes poetry would agree that this is part of it — a doomed but urgent wish to express the inexpressible.

    • Rosemary Dobson,
    • introduction, Selected Poems ()
  • Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless ...

    • Rosemary Dobson,
    • "Wonder," Selected Poems ()
  • Morning: such long shadows / Like low-bellied cats / Creep under parked cars / And out again, stealthily / Flattening the grasses.

    • Rosemary Dobson,
    • "Canberra Morning," Selected Poems ()

Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet, illustrator, anthologist

(1920 - 2010)