'Judith Beveridge tells us what she is. In the introduction to her collection Sun Music: New and Selected Poems, she describes herself as a lyrical poet, and discusses her belief that poetry must be a “showdown between the word and the poet” (xv). ' (Introduction)
“I often think about
The long process that loves
The sound we make.
It swings us until
We’ve got it by heart:
The music we are”
“Girl Swinging”