The Collected Works of an Australian Literary Luminary Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most important poets. This volume celebrates her long and distinguished career, bringing together a vast and striking body of work. ‘Dobson’s greatest service to Australian literature has been to write poems that are beautiful without being precious, challenging without being obscure, and that strive for timelessness without sight of what grounds them to reality.’ David McCooey