Editing David Rowbotham (section)

==Literary career==

Rowbotham worked as a journalist for the [[Toowoomba Chronicle]] and [[Brisbane Courier-Mail]] (1955–64).<ref name=apl>{{cite web|title=David Rowbotham|url=http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rowbotham-david|publisher=Australian Poetry Library|accessdate=17 January 2014}}</ref> He lectured in English at the University of Queensland (1965–1969) and became the literary critic of the Brisbane Courier-Mail (1969–1980), and its literary editor (1980–1987).<ref name="ReferenceA" />

Though lyrical in form, Rowbotham's poems are often concerned with history. After the publication of his ''Selected Poems'' by Penguin in 1994, covering a period of fifty years, Rowbotham entered a startling late period of productivity which culminated in the publication of the much-lauded ''Poems for America'' in 2002. In 2005 the [[Wagtail]] series from [[Picaro Press]] published a chapbook of Rowbotham's called ''The Brown Island''.