Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore 1887-1929

Mary Gilmore was Australia's foremost woman poet during the first half of the 20th century as well as an activist who cared about what Australians had done to the continent's Indigenous people and its natural environment. Yet Gilmore was intensely proud of her pioneer heritage. Her sometimes inconsistent ideas about European settlement, White Australia, the church, sexuality, eugenics, heroism and warfare provide vivid insights into the social and ideological shifts and conflicts that have marked the course of Australian history. This edition is part of The Academy Editions of Australia Literature (AEAL) series, which provides for the very first time, a library of Australia's literary heritage. The volume re-unites 388 previously uncollected poems with those chosen from her published collections of this period. For the first time we have a clear view of the poet of radical politics who co-existed with the bush balladist. In this variorum edition her poetry has benefited from scholarly editorial scrutiny. This volume provides reliable texts of all her published poems as well as documenting the often revealing alternative readings when the poems were republished for different audiences in journals, collections and anthologies. Annotation has also been provided for contemporary references and allusions that might otherwise be unclear to the modern reader.Gilmore, Mary is the author of 'Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore 1887-1929 ' with ISBN 9780702234859 and ISBN 0702234850.