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Notes
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Dedication: To my husband Merv. Lilley
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Overland in Conjunction With Peter Leyden Publishing House
, 1968 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Windmill Country : Foreword, single work criticism (p. 9)
- Dream of Old Lovei"The sunlight hurts me like a diseased hand", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Sarahi"Sarah, walking in the rain", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Country Idylli"A glittering girl went out one day", single work poetry (p. 13)
- There is Loveliness that Burnsi"The earth upon its axis turns,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- In Midland Where the Trains Go Byi"In Midland still the trains go by,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Once I Rode with Clancy...i"Once I rode with Clancy through the wet hills of Wickepin,", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- Here, in the Hurricanei"O keep me from the dark, my only love", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Last Summeri"In the little house with the sparrows,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Sweet Song for Katiei"The white doves are cooing", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Go Down Red Rosesi"O when shall we two meet again", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- There is Anguish in Knowingi"There is anguish in knowing that I cannot reach", single work poetry (p. 23)
- The Sailor Home from the Seai"O cock of the morning", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Dockyard Night Songi"Ah! my love's life is patterned drab all day,", single work poetry (p. 25)
- So Many Girls are in My Arms Tonighti"So many girls are in my arms tonight,", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Unanswered Love Letteri"It rained in Sydney all next day,", single work poetry (p. 27-29)
- Who Goes Round My House by Night?i"It's late at night poor Jackstraw visits me", single work poetry (p. 30)
- To a Growing Daughteri"You put everything into your pinny,", single work poetry (p. 31)
- March Through Perthi"With fixed bayonets in the wheat windy summer,", single work poetry (p. 32)
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Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeodi"Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod",
single work
poetry
On May Day 1946, in the Pilbarra district, Western Australia, Aboriginal station hands struck for 30 bob a week and the right to organise. Their leaders, the white man Don Mcleod and two Aborigines, Clancy McKenna and Dooley, were arrested and convicted. Pressure through the Labour movement and the United Nations secured their release.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Dorothy Hewett
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry 1995; (p. 119-124) -
And We Keep on Fighting
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Refrain : Poetry Review 1992; (p. 4-5) Australian Book Review , February-March no. 138 1992; (p. 34-37) -
A Tremendous World in Her Head : Introduction
1989
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. ix-xvii) -
Rapunzel in Windmill Country
Rod Moran
(interviewer),
1987
single work
interview
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December vol. 2 no. 12 1987; (p. 3-5) -
Dorothy Hewett as Poet : The Only Escape from the Labyrinth is Within the Labyrinth
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 44 no. 4 1984; (p. 423-440)
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Books
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Critic , 1 October vol. 9 no. 4 1968; (p. 53-54)
— Review of Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry -
Passion and the Prosaic : Australian Poetry, 1968
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 28 no. 2 1969; (p. 268-281)
— Review of Elijah's Ravens : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Behind My Eyes : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Law of Karma : A Progression of Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry ; My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1942-1968 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems for a Female Universe 1968 selected work poetry ; Segments of the Bowl 1967 selected work poetry ; I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Suit for Everyman 1968 selected work poetry ; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968 anthology poetry ; Citizens of Mist 1968 selected work poetry ; Grendel 1967 selected work poetry ; Open at Random : Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; Sheaf Tosser and Other Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; Showground Sketchbook and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; After the Assassination and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Rock and the Pool 1967 selected work poetry ; The Autobiography of a Gorgon and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry -
Useful Associations
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 October vol. 90 no. 4623 1968; (p. 80)
— Review of Open at Random : Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry ; Promises 1968 selected work poetry -
Recent Australian Poetry : Rush to Publication
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 29 no. 1 1969; (p. 69-77)
— Review of Open at Random : Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Autobiography of a Gorgon and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Idealist 1968 single work poetry ; Behind My Eyes : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1942-1968 1968 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1968 1968 anthology poetry ; Poems of War and Peace 1968 selected work poetry -
[Review] Poems of War and Peace [and] Windmill Country
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 February 1969; (p. 13)
— Review of Poems of War and Peace 1968 selected work poetry ; Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry -
And We Keep on Fighting
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Refrain : Poetry Review 1992; (p. 4-5) Australian Book Review , February-March no. 138 1992; (p. 34-37) -
Dorothy Hewett as Poet : The Only Escape from the Labyrinth is Within the Labyrinth
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 44 no. 4 1984; (p. 423-440) -
Dorothy Hewett : Confession and Beyond
1976
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 64 1976; (p. 24-29) -
A Tremendous World in Her Head : Introduction
1989
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. ix-xvii) -
Dorothy Hewett
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry 1995; (p. 119-124)
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