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'The Moving Image', 1953 2nd ed.
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The Moving Image is a collection of poems by Judith Wright.

Notes

  • Dedication: To My Father
  • Epigraph: Time is a moving image of eternity (Plato)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Meanjin Press , 1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Moving Imagei"Here is the same clock that walked quietly", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 1-6)
The Madmen Singing From : The Moving Imagei"Dust blows harsh from the airfield; dust in the mouth", Judith Wright , extract poetry (p. 2-3)
The Company of Loversi"We meet and part now over all the world;", Judith Wright , single work poetry war literature (p. 10)
Blue Arabi"The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 11)
Bora Ringi"The song is gone; the dance", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 12)
Trapped Dingoi"So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 13)
Remittance Mani"The spendthrift, disinherited and graceless,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 17)
"This ploughland vapoured with the dust of dreams," Soldier's Farmi"This ploughland drifted with the smoke of dreams,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Trainsi"Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass", Judith Wright , single work poetry war literature (p. 19)
The Idleri"The treasure islands were his desired landfall:", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Hawthorn Hedgei"How long ago she planted the hawthorn hedge-", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 22)
Nigger's Leap : New Englandi"The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 23)
Bullockyi"Beside his heavy-shouldered team,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 25)
Brother and Sistersi"The road turned out to be a cul-de-sac;", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 26)
South of My Daysi"South of my days' circle, part of my blood's country,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
The Surferi"He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 30)
For New Englandi"Your trees, the homesick and the swarthy native,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 31-32)
Waitingi"Day's crystal hemisphere travels the land.", Judith Wright , single work poetry
"Tonight, bringing in the new year not with bells" To A.H., New Year 1943i"To-night, bringing in the new year not with bells,", Judith Wright , single work poetry war literature
Sonneti"Now let the draughtsman of my eyes be done", Judith Wright , single work poetry
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Meanjin Press , 1953 .
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      Extent: 34p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Note/s:
      • First published 1946
      • Epigraph: Time is a moving image of eternity. - Plato
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Works about this Work

[Review] The Moving Image S. R. Welland , single work review
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry
High Delicate Outline : The Poetry of Judith Wright Nicholas Birns , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry 2024; (p. 153-166)

'This chapter traces the development of Judith Wright’s poetics, outlining her early focus on specific places and their legacies rather than on ideas of nation. It offers close readings of poems like “South of My Days,” “Bullocky,” and “Bora Ring.” The chapter then identifies mid-career attention to interpersonal relations before considering Wright’s growing awareness of settler-colonial privilege, Aboriginal sovereignty, different orders of temporality, and a continued expression of love for the land. The chapter reflects on the impact of Wright’s friendship with Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal and analyses “Two Dreamtimes.” It also examines Wright’s decision in 1990 to forego writing poetry in order to embrace environmental activism.' 

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Nation and Environment in the Twentieth Century Novel Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
Landscape (After Mabo) Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 292-303)
“Where’s Home, Ulysses?” Judith Wright in Europe 1937 Sarah Kennedy , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 52 no. 2 2017; (p. 331–349) 'When Judith Wright travelled to Europe in the “loaded spring” of February 1937, the 22-year-old poet found herself witness to “a break in the consciousness of Europe”. This article argues that Wright’s experience of being an outsider in Europe at this crucial historical moment had profound implications for her poetics, in the form of a compound and productive series of displacements. Her peripatetic encounters with European cultures-in-crisis caused Wright to despair of Europe as a source of political and creative renewal, and exposed fault lines in her own cultural orientation. Sundered from her Anglophile cultural inheritance, and able to reflect on home with the distance and imaginative ambivalence of an outsider, Wright invoked Ulysses — that archetypal poetic wanderer — whose experience of archipelagic journeying came to express for her the contingencies and hauntedness of Australia’s palimpsestic identity. This essay positions the shifting perspectives and excursive patterns of Wright’s developing poetics in relation to concepts of outsideness and embodiment, drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and phenomenological philosophies of mind.' (Publication abstract)
Judith Wright's Remarkable Verse James Devaney , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Vista , December vol. 1 no. 2 1946; (p. 23)
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry
[Review] Icarius [et al] A. D. Hope , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 14 no. 4 1955; (p. 573-575)
— Review of Icarius C. R. Jury , 1941 single work drama poetry ; Red and Green Alan McIntyre , 1954 selected work poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry ; Child with a Cockatoo, and Other Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1955 selected work poetry ; The Birdsville Track and Other Poems Douglas Stewart , 1955 selected work poetry ; Lyric Images R. H. Morrison , 1954 selected work poetry ; A Place to Get Lost In : Poems Robert Crossland , 1955 selected work poetry
New Poetry Rosemary Dobson , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , December vol. 1 no. 6 1946; (p. 255, 257)
— Review of Gaily the Troubadour : Satires in the Fixed Forms of Verse Frederick T. Macartney , 1946 selected work poetry ; The Dosser in Springtime Douglas Stewart , 1946 selected work poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1945 1946 anthology poetry
Poetry Chronicle 1962 Harry Payne Heseltine , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 21 no. 4 1962; (p. 495-504)
— Review of Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962 Randolph Stow , 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems David Campbell , 1962 selected work poetry ; The Best Poems of Hugh McCrae Hugh McCrae , 1961 selected work poetry ; The Dogman and Other Poems Robert Clark , 1962 selected work poetry ; Flowers and Fury : Poems Geoffrey Dutton , 1962 selected work poetry ; This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose ; Selected Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie Kenneth Mackenzie , 1961 selected work poetry ; Under the Bridge Bruce Beaver , 1961 selected work poetry ; No Fixed Address : Poems Bruce Dawe , 1962 selected work poetry ; A Few Mad Saints Don Maynard , 1962 selected work poetry ; Statues & Lovers Rodney Hall , 1962 selected work poetry ; Penniless Till Doomsday Rodney Hall , 1962 selected work poetry ; Four Poets David Malouf , Don Maynard , Judith Green , Rodney Hall , 1962 anthology selected work poetry ; A Question of Ignorance Judith Green , 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems John Bray , 1962 selected work poetry ; The Rainbow Serpent, and Other Poems Ernest G. Moll , 1962 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1962 1962 anthology poetry ; A Book of Australian Verse 1956 anthology poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry ; Deep Well Roland Robinson , 1962 selected work poetry
[Review] The Moving Image Marjorie Barnard , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Books , vol. 2 no. 1 1946; (p. 4-6)
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry
The Poetry of Judith Wright R. F. Brissenden , 1953 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 12 no. 3 1953; (p. 255-267) Australian Literary Criticism 1962; (p. 88-100) Critical Essays on Judith Wright 1968; (p. 39-50)
Love, Loss, Anger: A Human Pattern Fiona Capp , 1990 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 3 June 1990; (p. 32)
The Republic of Australia and the Poems of Judith Wright John Salter , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 29 no. 2 1996; (p. 163-175)
Australian Poetry : The Age of Affirmation, 1946-71 Bernard Hickey , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Da Slessor a Dransfield : antologia della poesia Australiana moderna : mito societa' individuo 1977;
— Appears in: Statements 1984; (p. 1-28)
Pelicans, Cycads and Ghost Crabs : Judith Wright and the Poetry of Queensland Martin Duwell , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 136-147)
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