The Three Fates & Other Poems

Award-winning poetry collection from Rosemary Dobson.

Rosemary Dobson received the Patrick White Award in 1994 with the selection committee declaring that her poetry ‘abounds in penetrating observation and quiet wisdom; it is blessedly free from sensational effects — one reason perhaps why her work has not attracted the attention it deserves.’

Yet it had been noticed. First published in 1984 this collection The Three Fates and Other Poems won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and was joint winner of the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

About the Author

Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 1920 – 27 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry and has been translated into French and other languages. Rosemary Dobson died in Canberra in 2012.