Marjorie Pizer (1920 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian

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Life

Pizer was born in

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and studied literature at the

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from 1939, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. Pizer began her working life as a clerk in the public service. She met and married the poet Muir Holburn (q.v.) and they left for Sydney, where they became members of the

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Party (until the invasion of Hungary). In 1947 they set up Pinchgut Press in a spare room. She was enamoured of poetry since a young age before beginning to compose her own works.

Bibliography

*Creeve Roe, Poems of Victor Daley; co-editor with Muir Holburn, 1947 *Freedom on the Wallaby, Poems of the Australian People; editor, 1953 *The Men Who Made Australia, Stories and Poems by Henry Lawson; editor, 1957 *co-editor with Joan Reed, ''Come Listen, Poetry for Schools'', Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1966. *Thou and I, Poems, 1967 *''To Life, Poems'', Sydney : M. Pizer, 1969. *Tides Flow, Poems, 1972 *''Seasons of Love, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1975. , *''Full Summer, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1977. , *''Gifts and Remembrances, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1979. , *To You the Living, Poems of Bereavement and Loss, 1981, 1991, 1992, 2010 *''The Sixtieth Spring, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1982. , *Below the Surface, Reflections on Life and Living; co-authored with Anne Spencer Parry, 1982, 1990, 1994 *Selected Poems, 1963-1983, 1984 *Poems of

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; co-editor with Drusilla Modjeska, 1985 *Equinox, Poems, 1987 *''Fire in the Heart, Poems,'' Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1990. , *''Journeys, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1992. , *''Winds of Change, Poems'', Sydney : Pinchgut Press, 1995. , *Await the Spring, Poems, 1998 *''A Fortunate Star, Poems'', Sydney, N.S.W. : Pinchgut Press, 2001. , *A Poet's Life, Poems, 2006, 2010 *Poems, Poems, 2010

References

''A lifetime's resources to call on'' (SMH, August 2006)''The Pinchgut Press''
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