A Human Pattern

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781847770516
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, 'she looked inwards into Australia, and in doing so made the local...universal'. A Human Pattern, a selected poems she prepared after she had abandoned writing poetry in order to devote her time to fighting for Aboriginal rights and conservation, presents her best work from 1946 to her last collection, Phantom Dwelling (1986). Australia, alive with human and natural history, is vibrant in this selection. She is, John Kinsella writes, 'a poet of human contact with the land'. She speaks directly to our perennial concerns.

The Unknown Judith Wright

Author: Georgina Arnott
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742588216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Judith Wright (1915-2000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture, and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionized Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a key player in early campaigns for Aboriginal land rights. A friend and confidante of artists, writers, scholars, activists, and policy makers, she remains an inspiration to many. And yet, as Georgina Arnott is able to show in this major new work, the biographical picture we have had of this renowned poet-activist has been very much a partial one. This book presents a more human figure than we have previously seen, and concentrates on Wright's younger years. New material allows us to hear-directly, thrillingly-the feisty voice of a young Judith Wright, and forces us to reconsider the woman we thought we knew. *** "Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, 'The Unknown Judith Wright' is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library Literary Studies collections in general, and supplemental studies reading lists in the subject areas of: Australian History, Art, Poetry, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, and Biographies." --Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch: January 2017 Subject: Australian History, Art, Poetry, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Biography]

The Soft Addiction Solution

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781585425327
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Have you ever wondered how you might carve more meaning and purpose out of your crowded days? The answer is simple: cut out the "soft addictions." As Judith Wright reveals in this revised and expanded edition of her classic self-help book There Must Be More Than This, many of us are addicted to seemingly harmless and socially sanctioned habits such as shopping, watching TV, and gossiping-robbing us of our time, clouding our clarity of mind, and masking our deeper longing for lasting joy. According to Wright, soft addictions are seductive because they satisfy powerful desires-and we easily become hooked because they are perceived as "normal" behavior, behavior that doesn't seem to demand the extraordinary measures of a drug or alcohol addiction. Yet soft addictions do call out for action and in this groundbreaking book, Judith Wright explains why they are so damaging and outlines an effective plan for overcoming these negative habits to discover more passion, love, commitment, and meaning in our lives.

Birds

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A collection of poems for young people between the worlds of childhood and maturity.

My Blood's Country

Author: Fiona Capp
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741754879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Fiona Capp first met Judith Wright when she came to speak at Fiona's school speech night. From that early meeting, Wright's poetry became a continuous source of inspiration to Fiona and they started a lifelong correspondence that only ended with Judith's death. In this lyrical and beautiful memoir, Fiona Capp sets herself on a quest to discover more about Judith Wright and the landscape that inspired her.

Judith Wright

Author: Georgina Arnott
Publisher: La Trobe University Press
ISBN: 9781760642624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of the best-known Australian poets of her generation. Born into a pioneering bush family, her commitments to environmental protection, history writing and obtaining recognition for First Nations people drew her in new directions and assumed a major role in her life. She was the first president of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation and a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Commission. This selection of her nonfiction, the first of its kind, brings together essays, speeches, family history, correspondence, memoir and criticism to reveal the personal and philosophical threads that bind together her work and life. It makes plain the shifts and transformations in her thinking, and the female friendships - in particular, with writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal - that opened her to new perspectives and connections. This addition to the Australian Thinkers series shows what happens when a poet talks about a nation. It reveals a way of thinking about Australia - its land, history and culture - that draws on the best of human possibility. Also in the series- Inga Clendinnen (ed. James Boyce) Donald Horne (ed. Nick Horne) Hugh Stretton (ed. Graeme Davison) George Seddon (ed. Andrea Gaynor)

Studying Poetry

Author: Barry Spurr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230802753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This engaging introduction to poetry covers the entire tradition of poetry in English, providing close readings of interesting and varied texts. In this updated second edition, coverage has been expanded to cover medieval poetry and to give more weight to literary theory and women poets, while a new chapter focuses on key contemporary poets.

The Nature of Love

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Melbourne, Sun
ISBN:
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description

The Cry for the Dead

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Establishment of Wright family pastoral holdings in central Queensland; relationships with Wadja and Jangga.

The Two Fires

Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Sydney ; London : Angus and Robertson
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description