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Article: JUDITH WRIGHT: POETRY AND ACTIVISM.(Review)

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Veronica Brady, South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright, Pymble, NSW, Angus & Robertson, 1998. Judith Wright, Half a Lifetime/Judith Wright, (ed.) Patricia Clarke, Melbourne, Text Publishing, 1999.

South of My Days, the biography of Judith Wright by Veronica Brady, and Wright's own memoir, Half a Lifetime, together prompt a consideration of her poetry in the light of her many-sided life. Wright's impassioned public concerns for `Australia', for the `environment' and for Indigenous peoples, all seem to spring `organically' from her personal living. Her passion to enlighten, persuade, and make a difference has driven her to write not only her dozen books of ... 







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