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  • Author:agent Dorothy Hewett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Dangaroo Press , 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Anniversaryi"Death is in the air -", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 40-41)
First Voronezh Letteri"Catching wild birds at the bird auction", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 44-45)
Second Voronezh Letteri"1937 is close at hand: on the River Don we heard over the radio", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 46-47)
Third Moscow Letteri"After 3 years Moscow is an hallucination;", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
Fourth Exile's Letteri"I come home to find they have cancelled my permit to live in the city,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 49-50)
Last Letters from the Transport Camp Vitoraya Rechka, Near Vladivostoki"Let me tell you about the last days of Osip Mandelstam.", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 51-52)
Sydney Postscripti"This is our fate the stoney faces", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 53)
Summer Solstice : 2i"It is the miraculous summer", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 54)
Note: Epigraph: The scene is laid in Arcadia. - E.H. Coleridge
Summer Solstice : 3i"The sunset flames over the city", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 55)
Dedicationi"there was a boy called Nim", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 58)
Prefacei"Alice", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 59)
1i"She stands under the almond trees", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 60)
2i"Sometimes she walks with a crutch", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 60)
5i"her grandfather was a window dresser", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 60-61)
The Alice Poems, Dorothy Hewett , sequence poetry (p. 60-62)
10i"In the Dream Girl's Garden", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 62)
11 : 1i"So Alice invented Nim (the sinister boy)", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 63)
11 : 2i"In her secret garden", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 63-64)
The Nim Poems, Dorothy Hewett , sequence poetry (p. 63-69)
11 : 3i"After the locust plague", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 64)
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