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Dorothy Hewett.(life and work of Australian poet considered)
I MET DOROTHY HEWETT in Perth in the late 1960s when I was a student with literary ambitions. I had met two or three published authors before, but she was the first published poet. Knowing her was of huge importance for me and for other young writers.
As a poet, Dorothy, who joined the Communist Party in 1945, developed from tub-thumping rhymed propaganda in praise of the likes of Patrice Lumumba to--after eleven years of virtual silence--works of great complexity and beauty like "Legend of the Green Country" and "The Hidden Journey", the latter combining the story of her disillusionment with communism with passages of soaring lyricism. Yet the germs of this ...
- Dorothy Hewett (21 May 1923-25 August 2002).
- Magazine article from: Hecate Garlick, Barbara October 1, 2002 700+ words
...return to Lambton Downs. So how will Dorothy Hewett be remembered? It was noticeable that...I've appeared naked on stage in a Dorothy Hewett rock musical.' She did indeed open...the repository of this side of the Dorothy Hewett story. But it is also all in the writing...
- "You're so full on".(Australian author Dorothy Hewett)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Nestle, Joan May 1, 2000 700+ words
...Australian playwright, poet and novelist Dorothy Hewett Love was a mystery[ldots]coming...University student production of a play by Dorothy Hewett, a 49-year-old playwright from...the trope of the knight's quest, Dorothy Hewett takes Sally on her own version of this...
- Dorothy Hewett's Faith in Doubt.(interpretation of the author's work)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies GRAHAME, CARMEL MACDONALD May 1, 2001 700+ words
...feminism bring into view, for example, the extent to which Dorothy Hewett's writing depends on a sublime aesthetic in which more...possibilities for approaching texts which resist containment. Dorothy Hewett's writing is marked by just such a paradoxical and unstable...
- 'In the hollow of the heart': Dorothy Hewett's early imaginative life.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Alexander, Christine April 1, 2009 700+ words
Dorothy Hewett, the little girl who wrote her first play at eleven years old and...that was to provide creative stability throughout her writing life. Dorothy Hewett was born on 21 May 1923 and grew up on 'Lambton Downs', a wheat...
- Dorothy Hewett: Selected Critical Essays.
- Magazine article from: Hecate Gardiner, Allan October 1, 1995 700+ words
...Centre Press? Although Bennett does not make clear the plan behind his selection, it does exist. The relation between Dorothy Hewett's writing and herself, as a woman engaged in self-formation, is a thread running through most of the articles. As...
- The end of an affair: intellectuals and the Communist Party, 1956-1959.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies McLaren, John June 1, 2003 700+ words
...founding meeting of the Communist Party of Australia in April 1920...Earlier splits in the Communist Party, in Australia and Europe...Overland was publishing Dorothy Hewett's 'Hidden Journey...I Many activists in the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) have...
- 'It's my party and I'll cry if I want to': recent autobiographical writings of...
- Magazine article from: Hecate Syson, Ian October 1, 1996 700+ words
...writers. It alludes generally to the Communist Party of Australia, more specifically to a poem by Dorothy Hewett called 'My Party' (discussed below...Improbable Life (Collins, 1989), Dorothy Hewett's Wild Card (McPhee Gribble...
- The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: a post-communist socialist or a...
- Magazine article from: German Policy Studies Strmiska, Maxmilian April 1, 2002 700+ words
...examines the evolution of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM...social-democra-tized" ex-communist party, nor an ultra-orthodox communist or genuine neo-communist party. ********** The Communist...
Source: HighBeam Research, Dorothy Hewett.(life and work of Australian poet considered)