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* Contents derived from the 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Jealous of Ali,
single work
short story
'That there was an outside world of prostitutes and sex was brought to me mainly I suppose by people like Alastair. Ali and the other boarders had this air of sophistication – un-provincial I would call it now, but then there was no other world but the provincial to envisage. Ali told stories of an existence different from mine, but it never amounted to a whole way of life I could ever have imagined myself in. I didn’t doubt that existence, I could picture it, with Ali’s information, vividly. But it was a world I couldn’t see myself walking through. It was Ali’s world peopled by characters and mapped by landmarks with which he was wholly familiar and which I had never encountered and which I felt I never would.' (Introduction)
- Furi"Golden", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Maisie, single work short story (p. 9-12)
- Absencei"`I see now all these deaths are to one end --", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Flying Over Pennsylvaniai"If I explained it to you", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Mid-Point : Chants Populairesi"Percolated coffee", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Mid-Point : Chants Impopulairesi"Morning. The warm tongue", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Far Endi"Sixty-five", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Reclusei"Strange granites of ocean", single work poetry (p. 20)
- The Lion in Winteri"Zoos are of the future. Poets frequent them,", single work poetry (p. 21)
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Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly,
single work
musical theatre
A musical look back at the 1930s, Bon-bons and Roses for Dolly is set in the Crystal Palace movie theatre, now a left-over dream factory, where for almost all of her life Dolly has sought consolation from the world at the sleazy alter of Hollywood. Dolly's life has also seen her surrounded by several symbolic female figures: Mary Corker, the strong intellectual grandmother who represents emotional sterility; Dolly's mother, Maddy, the older victim-dreamer without province; and Ollie Pullett, described by Hewett in her 1979 Hecate article as both the 'indomitable survivor and the final apotheosis of lower middle class suburbia... the voice of commonsense gone berserk' ('Creating Heroines' p77). When Dolly's dream world finally crumbles she finds herself middle aged, searching desperately in the blackened mirror of the old suburban fleapit for the ghost of the girl she once was. The reality is too much for her and she shoots herself during a re-run of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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Insight and Outrage : Dorothy Hewett's New Play,
single work
review
— Review of Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly 1972 single work musical theatre ; (p. 37-40) - Withini"At break of day I rarely think of you;", single work poetry (p. 41)
- The Land of Dinosaursi"Our small party rests on the rare green grass", single work poetry (p. 44)
- Davidi"The City Square has an afterthought, a product", single work poetry (p. 45)
- The Aborigine in the Works of Judith Wright, single work criticism (p. 46-50)
- Judith Wright and the Bushranger : A Haunting, single work criticism (p. 51-54)
- The Violetsi"It is dusk, and cold. I kneel to pick", single work poetry (p. 55)
- Lear, Class '71i"Trendy misses", single work poetry (p. 57-58)
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This Rough Magic,
single work
review
— Review of The Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie 1972 selected work poetry extract ; (p. 59-62)
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