The Mandelstam Letters sequence   poetry  
Is part of The Balcony Dorothy Hewett , 1979 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Dorothy Hewett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 The Mandelstam Letters
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Notes

  • 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).

Includes

First Voronezh Letter i "Catching wild birds at the bird auction", Dorothy Hewett , 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 i "1937 is close at hand: on the River Don we heard over the radio", Dorothy Hewett , 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 i "After 3 years Moscow is an hallucination;", Dorothy Hewett , 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 i "Let me tell you about the last days of Osip Mandelstam.", Dorothy Hewett , 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 i "This is our fate the stoney faces", Dorothy Hewett , 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 i "I come home to find they have cancelled my permit to live in the city,", Dorothy Hewett , 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

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Seven Poets : The Winning Entries to the Artlook/Shell Literary Award, 1977 Helen Weller (editor), Perth : Nine Club , 1977 Z845208 1977 anthology poetry Perth : Nine Club , 1977 pg. 35-40
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Greenhouse Dorothy Hewett , Hilary Burns (illustrator), Sydney : Big-Smoke Books , 1979 Z311673 1979 selected work poetry Sydney : Big-Smoke Books , 1979 pg. 45-56
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Dorothy Hewett , Edna Longley (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1991 Z306816 1991 selected work poetry Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1991 pg. 60-66
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Poems : 1940-1995 Dorothy Hewett , William Grono (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1995 Z332769 1995 selected work poetry Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1995 pg. 174-181
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Library APRIL; APL; The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library John Tranter , Sydney : 2004- Z1368099 2004- website

    'The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as to critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.

    This website currently contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work of more than 170 Australian poets. All the poems are fully searchable, and may be accessed and read freely on the World Wide Web. Readers wishing to download and print poems may do so for a small fee, part of which is returned to the poets via CAL, the Copyright Agency Limited. Teachers, students and readers of Australian poetry can also create personalised anthologies, which can be purchased and downloaded. Print on demand versions will be availabe from Sydney University Press in the near future.

    It is hoped that the APL will encourage teachers to use more Australian material in their English classes, as well as making Australian poetry much more available to readers in remote and regional areas and overseas. It will also help Australian poets, not only by developing new audiences for their work but by allowing them to receive payment for material still in copyright, thus solving the major problem associated with making this material accessible on the Internet.

    The Australian Poetry Library is a joint initiative of the University of Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Begun in 2004 with a prototype site developed by leading Australian poet John Tranter, the project has been funded by a major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), CAL and the University of Sydney Library. A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, led by Professor Elizabeth Webby and John Tranter, in association with CAL, have developed the Australian Poetry Library as a permanent and wide-ranging Internet archive of Australian poetry resources.' Source: www.poetrylibrary.edu.au (Sighted 30/05/2011).

    Sydney : 2004-
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett Dorothy Hewett , Kate Lilley , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2010 Z1706151 2010 selected work poetry (taught in 2 units) 'Dorothy Hewett is one of Australia's best known poets. She had a long and frequently controversial career during which she produced twelve collections of poetry, three novels, an autobiography, thirteen plays and countless articles and short stories. This very special volume has been compiled and introduced by Kate Lilley, a poet, scholar and Dorothy's daughter.' (From the publisher's website.) Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2010 pg. 74-83

Works about this Work

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)
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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