Eating the Underworld (37 page)

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Eating the Underworld
9781742755892

Copyright © Doris Brett 2001

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Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry

Brett, Doris, 1950–.
Eating the Underworld

ISBN 978 1 74051 070 7.
ISBN 1 74051 070 4.

1. Brett, Doris, 1950— - Health. 2. Brett, Doris, 1950 —
- Family. 3. Ovaries - Cancer - Patients - Australia -
Biography. 4. Woman authors, Australian—20th
century - Biography. 5. Authors, Australian -
20th century - Biography. 6. Brett family. I. Title

A828.309

Cover image by Dominique Appia
Cover and internal design by Greendot Design

I would like to gratefully acknowledge Hale and Iremonger Publishing for their permission to use a number of poems from
In the Constellation of the Crab
.‘First Minute After Midnight' was originally published in the literary journal,
Heat
and many of the poems were originally published in
Island
magazine and
The Argument of Desire
.