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Judith Wright Judith Wright i(A10588 works by) (a.k.a. Judith McKinney)
Born: Established: 31 May 1915 Armidale, Armidale area, New England, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 25 Jun 2000 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon Judith Wright : Selected Writings Judith Wright , Georgina Arnott , Carlton : Black Inc. , 2022 23597475 2022 selected work essay prose

This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright's nonfiction is a compelling portrait of a prescient voice on modern Australia.

'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.'  (Publication summary) 

1 y separately published work icon Poemas Escogidos Judith Wright , Jose Luis Fernandez Castillo (translator), Valencia : Pre-Textos , 2020 26381948 2020 selected work poetry
1 The Company of Lovers Judith Wright , Paul Grabowsky (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 After the Visitors Judith Wright , Andrew Ford (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 Sonnet for Christmas Judith Wright , Paul Dean (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 Late Spring Judith Wright , Elena Kats-Chernin (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 Failure of Communication Judith Wright , John Rodgers (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;

A musical setting to a short poem by Judth Wright, in which she explores the irony of closeness where however close our touch or intimate our speech, silences, spaces reach most deep, and will not close.'

1 To a Child Judith Wright , David Hirschfelder (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 The Slope Poets and Fighters Judith Wright , Carl Vine (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 Night After Bushfire Judith Wright , Iain Grandage (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 Metho Drinker Judith Wright , Richard Tognetti (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
1 The Surfer Judith Wright , Katie Noonan (composer), 2016 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: With Love and Fury 2016;
2 6 With Love and Fury Judith Wright , Katie Noonan , Brodsky Quartet , 2016 selected work lyric/song

With Love and Fury is a series of musical settings to ten poems by Judith Wright. The sequence was conceived as both an album and a touring concert.

'The musical settings enhance the turmoil of conflict and destruction that bursts out of Wright’s words. The song cycle is dark and intense. The narrative alludes to a profound concern for the environment and our relationship with the land and its people – issues that Judith Wright felt strongly about during her life as a conservationist and an Aboriginal rights activist' (Daniela Kaleva. Australian Stage 3 May 2016).

The poems that comprise Love and Fury (in album order) are:

NB: The composer is indicated in brackets

1 From : Half a Lifetime Judith Wright , 2013 extract autobiography (Half a Lifetime)
— Appears in: A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013; (p. 149-153)
1 y separately published work icon Tamborine Mountain Poems of Judith Wright Judith Wright , Sandra Sewell , Tamborine : Sandra Sewell Susanne Duncan , 2010 Z1793944 2010 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Grace and Other Poems Judith Wright , Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2009 Z1585016 2009 selected work poetry
1 Judith Wright Judith Wright , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing Across the Continent 2008;
1 14 y separately published work icon Portrait of a Friendship : The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright 1950-2000 Barbara Blackman , Judith Wright , Bryony Cosgrove (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 Z1364947 2007 selected work correspondence
1 17 y separately published work icon With Love and Fury : Selected Letters of Judith Wright Judith Wright , Patricia Clarke (editor), Meredith McKinney (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2006 Z1331209 2006 selected work correspondence Judith Wright, the great Australian poet, writer, environmentalist and activist for Aboriginal rights, was a prolific letter writer throughout her long life. Judith's first surviving letter, written as a girl of 10, is already vibrant with both the pleasure in language and the intense responsiveness to the natural world that formed the core of her being and dictated the directions of her life. The collection of letters presented in With Love and Fury serves to remind us of Judith's deep engagement with life, and of her love of the world (and of friends) and the fine fury that lead her to battle so courageously on the world's behalf - those sides of the single passion that shaped both her poetry and her life. (Publisher's website)
1 The Cage i "What can you sing", Judith Wright , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Equal Heart and Mind : Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney 2004; (p. n.p.)
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