'This paper is, circuitously,
all about my mother, and me: my formal, legal role as Dorothy Hewett's literary
executor (along with my brother, Tom Flood); the experience of growing up in the
archive and of being, in a sense, part of the archive; and the task of curating a part of
that archive as the editor of the new Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett published by
the University of Western Australia Press.' (p. 10)