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Mary Blackwood lives and works in
Tasmania. She says of herself modestly
that she 'has had a small number of
poems published over a great many
years since 1977' but The Write
Stuff feels it also needs
to be said that every time she's
submitted her work to an editor,
it's been accepted -- and as every
poet will know, that is some achievement.
Mary's work has
appeared in two anthologies
(see below), and in a number of collections
for children (Weird, Off the Planet,
Fractured Fairytales).
Her rhyming children's story,
Derek the Dinosaur, illustrated
by Kerry Argent (Omnibus
1987) has been reprinted
several times and has
been translated into Korean.
It is distributed in Australia,
North America and New Zealand.
Together with Megan Schaffner,
Alison Alexander and Margaret
Ross, she contributed to
the locally published collection Grimworks, launched
in Hobart in 2000. Her current
literary interest is in deriving
amusement from the bureaucracy.
An interview with Mary Blackwood appeared
in Famous
Reporter n.4,
July 1990 (pp.39-44).
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