Download or read book The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore written by Mary Gilmore and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2004 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, for the first time, the works of Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted poetry related media & organisations.With unrivalled access to Gilmore's work, this superb volume features more than 500 previously unpublished poems.Mary Gilmore is considered by many to have been Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.This superb volume brings together all her poems - from 1887 to 1929 - and presents readers with an unrivalled and enlightening view of a poet who was able to demonstrate radical political ideals, whilst at the same time be praised for the 'womanliness' of works such as Marri'd and Other Verses and The Passionate Heart.For the first time, these poems stand side by side, presenting readers with a truly revealing picture of Gilmore's oeuvre.