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Mary Gilmore Project CompletedThe tenth title in the Academy Editions of Australian Literature project is Volume 2 of The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore 1930–1962, edited by Jennifer Strauss. It was launched by novelist David Malouf during the ASAL conference on 4 July 2007 at the University of Queensland Press bookshop. Malouf spoke about the importance of our major writers being kept in print and of the pleasure of encountering, in this scholarly edition, so many poems of Gilmore’s that he had not read before. He praised the tenacious and judicious scholarship of the editor and felt that, through her efforts, Mary Gilmore was set to re-encountered by a new generation of readers, now much better informed because of Strauss’s work. A second event was held at the Karakatta (Lyceum) Club in Perth on 19 July 2007, with Delys Bird, director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at UWA, launching. She underlined the importance of ensuring, through the Academy Editions series, that Australia’s literary past was fully and reliably documented: this is where the Gilmore edition shone. Jennifer Strauss spoke of the trials and pleasures that her work on the two-volume edition had entailed, thanked the series general editor Paul Eggert for his astute oversight of the edition, and then read, beguilingly, some of Gilmore’s more characteristic poems. The champagne flowed. Bumper Years For Australian Scholarly EditingThe appearance of this Academy Edition in 2007 follows three others in 2005 and 2006: UQP is the publisher of these handsome volumes, in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities. To order, go to http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Contact: Professor Paul Eggert Last Updated: 25 March 2008 |
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