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1977
The Mandelstam Letters
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Epigraph: You took away all the oceans and all the room. You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it. Where did it get you? Nowhere You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence. Osip Mandelstam, Voronezh, (1935).
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First Voronezh Letter
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"Catching wild birds at the bird auction",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 1977; (p. 35-36) Greenhouse 1979; (p. 46-47) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 44-45) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 60-61) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 175-176) Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010; (p. 74-75) -
Second Voronezh Letter
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"1937 is close at hand: on the River Don we heard over the radio",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 1977; (p. 36-37) Greenhouse 1979; (p. 48-49) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 46-47) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 61-62) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 176-177) Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010; (p. 76) -
Third Moscow Letter
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"After 3 years Moscow is an hallucination;",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 1977; (p. 37-38) Greenhouse 1979; (p. 50-51) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 47-48) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 62-63) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 177-178) Bridgings : Readings in Australian Women's Poetry 1996; (p. 59-60) -
Last Letters from the Transport Camp Vitoraya Rechka, Near Vladivostok
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"Let me tell you about the last days of Osip Mandelstam.",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 1977; (p. 39-40) Greenhouse 1979; (p. 54-55) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 51-52) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 65-66) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 179-180) Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010; (p. 81-82) -
Sydney Postscript
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"This is our fate the stoney faces",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Greenhouse 1979; (p. 56) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 53) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 66) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 180-181) Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010; (p. 83) -
Fourth Exile's Letter
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"I come home to find they have cancelled my permit to live in the city,",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 1977; (p. 38-39) Greenhouse 1979; (p. 52-53) The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets 1986; (p. 110-111) A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems 1989; (p. 49-50) Selected Poems 1991; (p. 63-64) Collected Poems : 1940-1995 1995; (p. 178-179)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Interview : Dorothy Hewett
Jim Davidson
(interviewer),
1979
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 38 no. 3 1979; (p. 350-367) Sideways from the Page : The Meanjin Interviews 1983; (p. 184-208) Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 350-367)
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Interview : Dorothy Hewett
Jim Davidson
(interviewer),
1979
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 38 no. 3 1979; (p. 350-367) Sideways from the Page : The Meanjin Interviews 1983; (p. 184-208) Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 350-367)
Awards
- 1977 commended Artlook/Shell Literary Award
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