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Dorothy Swoope Dorothy Swoope i(A19086 works by)
Born: Established: 1948 Morristown, New Jersey,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1975
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1 y separately published work icon Wait 'til Your Father Gets Home! Dorothy Swoope , Milton : Middle Ridge Press , 2016 10249715 2016 single work autobiography

'Wait ‘til your father gets home! is an intimate and humorous collection of stories about a nuclear family in New Jersey during the 1950s and1960s. Set at the height of the Cold War, the American Civil Rights Movement and post war plenty, these stories give us a glimpse into a lifestyle that was unique to the urban commuting families of that time. Whether she is raiding the chocolates in the fallout shelter, hawking homemade refreshments around the neighbourhood for pocket-money, running the gauntlet past the scariest dog in town or lying in terror knowing that Frankenstein has relocated to her bedroom closet, Dorothy Swoope’s childhood memoirs both entertain and delight. In these stories, we discover a threat even greater than the atomic bomb. It is a mother’s cry: Wait ‘til your father gets home!' (Publication summary)
1 The Budawangs i "The shape of the mountains shift", Dorothy Swoope , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 1 no. 1 2014;
1 Looking up i "Silver glint", Dorothy Swoope , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Page Seventeen , no. 5 2007; (p. 128)
1 Interlude i "Your fingers caress the keys", Dorothy Swoope , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Memory Box 2007; (p. 5)
1 On the Wing i "Ellipses of flight", Dorothy Swoope , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Suburbs of the Mind : A Poetry Anthology 2004; (p. 93) Sun and Sleet 2006; (p. 55)
1 On Seeing Ned Kelly's Death Mask at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra i "A slight smile", Dorothy Swoope , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 October 2001; (p. 19)
1 Over the River i "it could have been the western mountains", Dorothy Swoope , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: 1987 Anthology of Australian Poetry 1987; (p. 119)
1 No Bear this Winter i "no bear this winter", Dorothy Swoope , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: Up From Below : Poems of the 1980s 1987; (p. 329)
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