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Margaret Scott
This drawing of Margaret Scott
is by Hobart-based
artist, potter and desktop publisher, Cate
Lowry and is used by permission.
© Copyright
Cate Lowry, ACYS, 2002
Poems on this site:
"It's good to see Margaret Scott's fine poetry so elegantly
presented. And it's poetry that
works extremely well as a collection, since the poems -- however
admirable they have seemed in isolation
in journals or anthologies -- take
on a deeper resonance and force as a group, partly through their
thematic connections,
but even more through the play
of light and shade that constantly informs their sensibility ..." From
a review by Jennifer
Strauss
of
Margaret Scott's Collected poems (Montpelier
Press)
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Margaret
Scott
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Margaret Scott was born in Bristol, England in 1934 and died
in Tasmania in August 2005.
She was educated at Redland High School, Bristol, and at
Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English from 1953
to1956. She worked at various jobs before emigrating to Tasmania,
Australia with her first husband and young son in 1959.
For twenty-four years, Dr Margaret Scott taught in the English
Department of the University of Tasmania, and, beloved of
a generation of students, nurtured the careers of several
now prominent writers.
In 1989 she retired to become
a full-time writer. After the death
of the legal scholar, Michael Scott,
with whom she lived with for 15 years,
she moved to the Tasman Peninsula,
an area which is one of her obsessions.
There, in 1997, she wrote Port Arthur: A Story of Strength and
Courage in
response to the massacre which took place
in that tourest destination in 1996.
Besides the works listed
below,
Dr Scott has also written numerous articles,
poems and short stories for periodicals
in Australia, New Zealand, UK and the
US.
Australia's national broadcaster featured Margaret Scott in a program
called
Etchings:
The poetry of Margaret Scott (PoeticA, ABC Radio
National 3 p.m. Saturday, 9 February 2002.)
She was also a regular -- and very popular -- participant
on the ABC's "Great Debate" series and "Good
News Week". She provided the text for "Southern
Ocean" by the young composer, Andrew Schultz.
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- A little more was launched during
Ten Days on the Island on Wednesday, 6 April 2005: see the
Tasmanian
Times site
- Collected
Poems
Montpelier Press,
2000, 174pp. ISBN: 1 876597 03 8
$25.00pb | Order
form
- The Black Swans: Selected work
Angus & Robertson, 1988.
- Visited
Angus & Robertson, 1983.
- Tricks of Memory
Angus & Robertson, 1980.
Fiction:
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The Baby-Farmer
Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1990.
(Also known under alternative title, In
the Shadows, Vintage, 2001.)
- Family album:
A novel of secrets and memories
Random House, 2000.
Autobiography / miscellany:
- Changing Countries
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, 2000.
As editor:
- 'Effects of Light: The poetry of Tasmania' (anthology)
Twelvetrees Publishing, 1985.
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