Marjorie Pizer (1920 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian poet.
Life Pizer was born in Melbourne and studied literature at the University of Melbourne 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 Communist 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 Lesbia Harford; 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