Woman to Child single work   poetry   "You who were darkness warmed my flesh"
Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 Woman to Child
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Papers vol. 5 no. 1 [Autumn] 1946 Z588079 1946 periodical issue 1946 pg. 24
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    y separately published work icon Voices : A Quarterly of Poetry no. 133 Spring 1948 Z1747696 1948 periodical issue 1948 pg. 18-19
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    y separately published work icon Woman to Man Judith Wright , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949 Z1450991 1949 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949 pg. 3
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    y separately published work icon Five Senses : Selected Poems Judith Wright , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 Z563031 1963 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 pg. 27
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    y separately published work icon Judith Wright : Selected Poems Judith Wright , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 Z565587 1963 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 pg. 8
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    y separately published work icon Six Voices : Contemporary Australian Poets Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 Z66424 1963 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963
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    y separately published work icon On Native Grounds : Australian Writing from Meanjin Quarterly Louis Kahan (illustrator), C. B. Christesen (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z213499 1967 anthology poetry short story extract criticism biography Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 pg. 142
    Note: Appears under 'Three Poems' alongside 'Woman to Man' and 'Woman's Song'.
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    y separately published work icon Poetry from Australia : Judith Wright, William Hart-Smith, Randolph Stow Howard Sergeant (editor), Oxford : Pergamon Press , 1969 Z187906 1969 anthology poetry Oxford : Pergamon Press , 1969 pg. 9
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    y separately published work icon Judith Wright : Collected Poems, 1942-1970 Judith Wright , Cremorne : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z563360 1971 selected work poetry Cremorne : Angus and Robertson , 1971 pg. 30-31
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    y separately published work icon Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse John Barnes (editor), Brian McFarlane (editor), Richmond : Heinemann , 1984 Z900285 1984 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Richmond : Heinemann , 1984 pg. 116-117
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    y separately published work icon Two Centuries of Australian Poetry Mark O'Connor (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1988 Z322247 1988 anthology poetry criticism Contains poems grouped into 18 thematic sections (19 in 2nd. ed.) ; each section has an introduction, notes and suggestions for study activities and further study. Biographical notes on authors and indexes also included. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1988 pg. 182
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    y separately published work icon Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse John Barnes (editor), Brian McFarlane (editor), Richmond : Heinemann , 1984 Z900285 1984 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Richmond : Heinemann Education Australia , 1988 pg. 116-117
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    y separately published work icon Five Senses : Selected Poems Judith Wright , Leeanne Crisp (illustrator), Canberra : 1989 Z1482073 1989 selected work poetry Canberra : 1989
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    y separately published work icon A Human Pattern : Selected Poems Judith Wright , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z9022 1990 selected work poetry (taught in 3 units)

    'Judith Wright's own definitive selection of her poetry, covering the best and most memorable of her remarkable oeuvre.

    'From the elegant and moving precision of the first collection, The Moving Image (1946), to the political passion of Phantom Dwelling (1985), Wright's poetry speaks with intelligence and courage - and gracefully sensuous imagery.

    'Forty years of poetic production from Australia's best-loved poet.' (Publication summary)

         North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990     pg. 21-22
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1994 Z501989 1994 selected work poetry war literature satire (taught in 8 units) Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1994 pg. 28-29
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology John Leonard (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z461207 1998 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 206
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    y separately published work icon Poems for All Occasions Ron Pretty (editor), Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 2002 Z1005699 2002 anthology poetry A collection of well-known poems from across the ages grouped by topic or event (such as 'Childbirth and Christening' and 'Funerals and Memorial Services'). Australian and international authors are included. Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 2002 pg. 13
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    y separately published work icon The Equal Heart and Mind : Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney Judith Wright , J. P. McKinney , Meredith McKinney (editor), Patricia Clarke (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 Z1131180 2004 selected work correspondence poetry The selection includes a preface by Patricia Clarka, pp. xi-xiii, and a memoir of her parents by Meredith McKinney. The letters, covering the years from 1945-1950, are arranged chronologically within themed sections and selected poems by Wright appear within and between the sections; each section is preceded by a biographical essay contextualising the letters. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 pg. 155
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    y separately published work icon Grace and Other Poems Judith Wright , Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2009 Z1585016 2009 selected work poetry Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2009 pg. 7
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    y separately published work icon Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008 Jennifer Harrison (editor), Kate Waterhouse (editor), Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 Z1592305 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'Motherlode portrays the story of children and mothers from the perspective of women and their social and emotional contexts.' (The editors) Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 pg. 313
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    y separately published work icon The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry John Leonard (editor), Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 Z1674214 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 16 units) Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 pg. 259
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    y separately published work icon Hook and Eye : A Selection of Poems Judith Beveridge , New York (City) : George Braziller , 2014 8769465 2014 selected work poetry

    'The third in Braziller's Series of Australian Poets, Judith Beveridge engages the world in ways that open up larger perspectives and deeper understandings. As the critic Clive James notes, Beveridge s work displays unfailing dignity of movement and quiet splendour. Whether in relation to the natural world around us or to our inner world of intellect and emotion, Beveridge s poems call us to account, exalting our capacity for knowledge and insisting upon the pleasures and responsibilities of attentiveness."' (Publication summary)

         New York (City) : George Braziller , 2014     pg. 30-31
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    y separately published work icon Love Is Strong as Death Paul Kelly (editor), Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2019 17491295 2019 anthology poetry

    'Paul Kelly’s songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves – poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature’s great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death – plus everything in between.

    'Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2019
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Works about this Work

Mothers Embraced Sarah Holland-Batt , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 May 2020; (p. 18)

'The great Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died on April 27, once observed that when female poets seek to write about motherhood, they are met with a dilemma: there is “a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and therefore inadmissable”.' (Introduction)
'Woman to Child' : Judith Wright (1915-2000) Jane Gleeson-White , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 178-181)
'Woman to Child' : Judith Wright (1915-2000) Jane Gleeson-White , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 178-181)
Mothers Embraced Sarah Holland-Batt , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 May 2020; (p. 18)

'The great Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died on April 27, once observed that when female poets seek to write about motherhood, they are met with a dilemma: there is “a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and therefore inadmissable”.' (Introduction)
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