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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Collected Poems : 1940-1995
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Lupins withered and foxes rotted, and the windmill whirled and whirled against all seasons of the sky, drinking from the filled dark caves below the earth. Randolph Stow, The Merry-go-round in the Sea.
  • Dedication: For Merv Lilley
  • Sound recording available

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Dark Firesi"The dark fires shall burn in many rooms", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 16)
My Lovei"The red sun sinks over Cyprus", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 16)
Look, Look I Have Come Homei"I left you, but I always meant", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 16)
Hands of a Girli"My hands in the sun are like a doll of Titian's", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 17)
Suicide of an Architecti"I blocked you on an arc-swing of sky", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 17)
Modernistic Memoriesi"The river, and the grey sky", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 18)
'That All Your Face is Clouded'i"That all your face is clouded", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 18)
Steel Girdersi"Towers are hungry", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 19)
Dream of Old Lovei"The sunlight hurts me like a diseased hand", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Sarahi"Sarah, walking in the rain", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 20)
Flame Womani"Woman full of flame trees", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 21)
Women by Marci"Women, like red horses", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 21-21)
March Through Perthi"With fixed bayonets in the wheat windy summer,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Planesi"The planes seem to crash into my room", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Jazzi"The world rocks sideways", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 24-26)
Song of the Pearl Diveri"I will bring my black princss", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 27)
13 : IVi"The Headmistress an MA from Oxford", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 28)
Australian Sunseti"The red sun", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Look! The Mooni"Look! the red face of the moon", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 29-30)
Requiescati"The slow dark music of the hills", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 30)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

The Hedge and the Labyrinth. A Holistic Vision of Dorothy Hewett´s Poetry M. S. Suarez Lafuente , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 9 2012;
'Dorothy Hewett´s poetry follows a complex architecture, a structure which encompasses her personal beliefs and the guiding lights that consciously and unconsciously led her life, while it also draws and deploys core elements from the literary tradition of Western culture. The primary image that pervades her poems is the garden, which is either the place where many of her poems occur or a significant component in others. Hewett´s garden retains several of the characteristics of the primordial garden, such as innocence, abundance and placid solitude, but it also partakes of its Romantic nuances, which, after all, are the same as in Eden but enhanced by feeling and intensity. The garden as literary locus sets the pace of Hewett´s poetry in that it links myth-making with literary tradition, the pillars that sustain the body of her poetic reality. This triangle, myth, tradition and reality, incorporates the main topics that the Australian writer inscribes in her work, and, while each corner retains its thematic substance, it also reflects the other two, thus giving unity to the whole poetic process. As Bruce Bennett pointed out as early as 1995, "place, appropriately conceived, is a meeting ground of mental, emotional and physical states and as such is a suitable focus
for the literary imagination" (Bennett: 19).' (Author's introduction)
Dorothy Hewett's Faith in Doubt Carmel MacDonald-Grahame , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 49-61)
Uses feminist theories and concepts of the feminine sublime to investigate Dorothy Hewett's writing (particularly her poetry) and her development as a writer, concentrating on the attitudes expressed in her declarations of doubt about self and writing.
Cover Girl Pamela Brown , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 146 1997; (p. 73-75)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
On Woman's Poetry Suzy Baldwin , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1996; (p. 120-125)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
The Poetry of a Lifetime Peter Rose , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 178 1996; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
Survival of the Fittest Martin Duwell , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 April 1996; (p. rev 9)

— Review of Deja Vu Tours Nigel Roberts , 1995 selected work poetry ; Portrait of a Survivor Barry O'Donohue , 1995 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
Getting it Together Alan Wearne , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , April vol. 6 no. 3 1996; (p. 40-41)

— Review of New and Selected Poems Robert Gray , 1995 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
Three Poets Sort Out the Identity of Artists and Women Heather Cam , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 January 1996; (p. 10)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry ; The Body in Time / Nervous Arcs Diane Fahey , Jordie Albiston , 1995 selected work poetry
Seductive Verse Ken L. Goodwin , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 February 1996; (p. wkd 7)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
The Poetry of a Lifetime Peter Rose , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 178 1996; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , 1995 selected work poetry
The Hedge and the Labyrinth. A Holistic Vision of Dorothy Hewett´s Poetry M. S. Suarez Lafuente , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 9 2012;
'Dorothy Hewett´s poetry follows a complex architecture, a structure which encompasses her personal beliefs and the guiding lights that consciously and unconsciously led her life, while it also draws and deploys core elements from the literary tradition of Western culture. The primary image that pervades her poems is the garden, which is either the place where many of her poems occur or a significant component in others. Hewett´s garden retains several of the characteristics of the primordial garden, such as innocence, abundance and placid solitude, but it also partakes of its Romantic nuances, which, after all, are the same as in Eden but enhanced by feeling and intensity. The garden as literary locus sets the pace of Hewett´s poetry in that it links myth-making with literary tradition, the pillars that sustain the body of her poetic reality. This triangle, myth, tradition and reality, incorporates the main topics that the Australian writer inscribes in her work, and, while each corner retains its thematic substance, it also reflects the other two, thus giving unity to the whole poetic process. As Bruce Bennett pointed out as early as 1995, "place, appropriately conceived, is a meeting ground of mental, emotional and physical states and as such is a suitable focus
for the literary imagination" (Bennett: 19).' (Author's introduction)
Dorothy Hewett in Conversation with John Kinsella on the Release of Her `Collected Poems' John Kinsella (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 41 no. 3 1996; (p. 29-44)
Dorothy Hewett's Faith in Doubt Carmel MacDonald-Grahame , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 49-61)
Uses feminist theories and concepts of the feminine sublime to investigate Dorothy Hewett's writing (particularly her poetry) and her development as a writer, concentrating on the attitudes expressed in her declarations of doubt about self and writing.
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