[3] The Judges of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 1996 described her significance as follows: "The level of originality and strength of Rosemary's poetry cannot be underestimated, nor can the contribution she has made to Australian literature.

[5] Here she met Australian children's author, Joan Phipson, who had been asked to set up a printing press.

[3] She worked as an editor and reader for the publisher Angus and Robertson[6] with Beatrice Davis and Nan McDonald.

She married the publisher Alec Bolton (1926–1996), whom she met while working at Angus and Robertson, in Sydney, and they had three children.

As time wore on, her local circle expanded to include younger writers such as Alan Gould and Geoff Page.

[5] Her older sister, Ruth Dobson, became Australia's first woman career diplomat ambassador.

Surely everyone who writes poetry would agree this is part of it - a doomed but urgent wish to express the inexpressible".

[5] Both she and Bolton enjoyed the art of the private press in a time when computer type-setting was taking over and producing a more standardised product.