On 25 May 2011, the Australian Poetry Library website (www.poetrylibrary.edu.au) was launched at Government House, Sydney, by the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir. The launch was the culmination of several years of work by a number of individuals, a process that inevitably involved many creative judgments, as well as many adjustments along the way.
Elizabeth Webby
Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA is Professor Emerita of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, where she taught from 1974-2007. She has published widely on Australian literature, with an emphasis on writing from the 19th century, and work by women. From 1988-1999 she was editor of the literary journal Southerly, and from 1999-2004 a judge of the Miles Franklin Award. She was a contributing editor, responsible for the 19th-century material, of the Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature (2009) and led the research project which created the Australian Poetry Library website in association with the Copyright Agency Ltd.
