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Notes
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Dedication: This book is dedicated to friends & lovers, sons & daughters.
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Epigraph: Four grey walls and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle embowers. Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott.
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This work includes four sequences
- Memoirs of a Protestant Girlhood
- Ah! Those Dead Ladies
- O! Baby, Baby it's a Wild World
- Rapunzel in Suburbia
Each section is preceded by a quote from Tennyson The Lady of Shalott
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Prism
, 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Memoirs of a Protestant Girlhood, sequence poetry (p. 15-23)
- Memoirs of a Protestant Girlhoodi"I was brought up on Tennyson and Eliot", single work poetry (p. 16-18)
- Easyi"look your last", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Death of My Mad Motheri"To die quietly,", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Calling on Motheri"Look! the moths are out again,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- I've Made My Bed, I'll Lie on Iti"With legs apart I lie on mother's bed", single work poetry (p. 22)
- This Version of Lovei"I have seen her, wonderful!", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Ah Those Dead Ladies, sequence poetry (p. 25-40)
- Ah! Those Dead Ladiesi"That house has gone", single work poetry (p. 26-28)
- In Moncur Streeti"It's twenty years ago and more", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Drowned Childi"Seven days rolled in the Autumn tide", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Forsaken Mermaidi"The maimed mermaid on Bondi cliff", single work poetry (p. 32)
- The Witnessesi"This is the wide country", single work poetry (p. 33)
- House That Jack Builti"Rib-cage open to the sun", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- The Single Cryi"If we lived here all summer", single work poetry (p. 36)
- Let Candid Speech at Last...i"In old age I will learn to use my tongue", single work poetry (p. 37)
- Sanctuaryi"The winter's coming on,", single work poetry (p. 38-40)
- O! Baby, Baby, it's a Wild World, sequence poetry (p. 41-62)
- Living Dangerouslyi"O to live dangerously again,", single work poetry (p. 42)
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Alice in a German Garden
35i"Do you remember the garden in the watery sunlight...",
single work
poetry
(p. 43-44)
Note: With title: Alice in a German Garden.
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) -
The Wheel, the Mirror and the Tower: Desire in the Writings of Dorothy Hewett
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 180-201) -
Imaging Dorothy Hewett
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 127-140) -
Dorothy Hewett and the Left
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 32-52) -
'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Dorothy Hewett
1994
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: 'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Negotiations of Identity in the Poetry of Dorothy Auchterlonie, Rosemary Dobson, Dorothy Hewett and J.S. Harry 1994; (p. 189-245)
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Swag
1976
single work
column
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 64 1976; (p. 54-57)
— Review of Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry -
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry -
[Review] Rapunzel in Suburbia
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 23 no. 2 1975; (p. 78-80)
— Review of Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry -
[Review] Rapunzel in Suburbia
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 July 1975; (p. 27)
— Review of Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry -
[Review] Rapunzel in Suburbia
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: National Times , 18-24 November 1976; (p. 36)
— Review of Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry -
Swamp to Supermarket : Suburbia in Recent Western Australian Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 35 no. 4 1990; (p. 93-97) -
The Boundaries of the Audience
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Span , April no. 30 1990; (p. 2-17) -
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) -
'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Dorothy Hewett
1994
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: 'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Negotiations of Identity in the Poetry of Dorothy Auchterlonie, Rosemary Dobson, Dorothy Hewett and J.S. Harry 1994; (p. 189-245)
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