The Three Fates & Other Poems

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The Three Fates & Other Poems
Author Rosemary Dobson
Language English
GenrePoetry collection
Publisher Hale and Iremonger
Publication date
1984
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages67 pp.
Awards1984 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, winner; 1985 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, joint winner

The Three Fates & Other Poems is a collection of poems edited by Australian poet Rosemary Dobson, published by Hale and Iremonger in 1984. [1]

Contents

The collection contains 43 poems from a variety of sources. [2]

It was the winner of the 1984 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

In The Bulletin critic Geoffrey Dutton commented that the poet shows "an extraordinarily good eye for the movement of detail that is about to become the stillness of poetry. There is also a generous but not docile sharing of people, poems, paintings, and, above all, time." [3]

Philip Martin, writing in Australian Book Review noted: "For me at least, the poems which stand out beyond the others in a fairly even collection, pleasurable throughout, are those which look squarely at the truths of death and ageing, and do so without self-pity but with much compassion." Of the poet he found that her "eye is sharp for the telling and terrible detail, but without belittling anything." [4]

Awards

See also

References

  1. "The Three Fates & Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Three Fates & Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson". Austlit. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  3. ""Seeking that mysterious movement By Geoffrey Dutton"". The Bulletin, 2 October 1984, pp80-81. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  4. ""The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson"". Australian Book Review, November 1984. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  5. "Malouf takes $15,000 Palmer prize". The Age, 15 August 1985, p3. ProQuest   2521256342 . Retrieved 11 August 2025.