Poetic inspiration

The article for the first time discusses Hewett’s early unpublished poetry which still exists only in manuscript and typescript in the National Library of Australia. Included are numerous text examples of Hewett’s early poems.

Hanna stresses the importance of the “child-vision” in Neilson’s poetry and its connection to Neilson’s idea of Love. Hanna argues that the two children in “The Orange Tree” represent the limitless unknowable area of Neilson’s imagination which is ultimately linked…

'Although history is written by the winners, social memory cannot ever be completely eradicated (short of committing genocide),' writes Penny van Toom, 'because memories remain lodged in people's minds and encoded in their everyday speech- and life-practices' ('Stories to Live…