Wright, Judith
Wright, Judith ( 1915 – 2000 ),Australian poet, brought up in New South Wales. Her first book, The Moving Image ( 1946 ), made her reputation, which has been enhanced through more than a dozen later volumes, most recently the Collected Poems of 1994 . From the beginning, her poems have been shapely in form, lyrical and meditative, concerned with love (as in her classic ‘Woman to Man’), and with the rural and wild landscapes of Australia. Since the 1960s she was much involved with the conservation movement and its political implications: this resulted in a sharper, more combative tone, angry with what she saw as white Australia's betrayal of the Aborigines in matters of landownership and spiritual inheritance.
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