| Author | Rosemary Dobson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | Hale & Iremonger |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 67 pp. |
| Awards | 1984 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 and written by Australian poet Rosemary Dobson, published by Hale & Iremonger in 1984. [1]
The collection contains 43 poems from a variety of sources. [2]
It was the winner of the 1984 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. [2]
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]