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- From the Wellington Museumi"Vine-spiralling Maori genealogies,", single work poetry
- In the Rail-Cari"Gashes of wind on the green-scummed water.", single work poetry
- The Beach at Hokitikai"A narrow shelf below the southern alps,", single work poetry
- Oppositionsi"Today I was caught alone in a summer storm", single work poetry
- Foxi"That rufous canterer", single work poetry
- Entertainmenti"Such kind uncertain ladies in their best", single work poetry
- Rockfacei"Of the age-long heave of a cliff-face, all's come down", single work poetry
- Rockpooli"My generation is dying, after long lives", single work poetry
- Eyesi"At the end of winter my self-sown vine sends up", single work poetry
- Summeri"This place's quality is not its former nature", single work poetry
- Connectionsi"The tiny clusters of whitebeard heath are in flower:", single work poetry
- Memoryi"Yesterday wrapped me in wool; today drought's changeable weather", single work poetry
- Skinsi"This pair of skin gloves is sixty-six years old,", single work poetry
- Dusti"In my sixty-eighth year drought stopped the song of the rivers,", single work poetry
- Pressuresi"Winter gales, spring gales, summer - under such pressures", single work poetry
- Winteri"Today's white fog won't rise above the tree-tops.", single work poetry
- Patternsi""Brighter than a thousand suns" - that blinding glare", single work poetry
- Smalltown Dancei"Two women find the square-root of a sheet.", single work poetry
- Rainforesti"The forest drips and glows with green.", single work poetry
- Late Meetingi"The last, the very last", single work poetry
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Works about this Work
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Judith Wright's The Shadow of Fire and Making the Ghazal Appropriate for Australia
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 3 2017; (p. 184-210)'Judith Wright was in search of reconciliation. She had long been searching for older cultural forms that could be made suitable to express modern Australian life, and, now, as her long writing life was waning, she was also in search of a new literary identity and a contemplative poetic form. One of the fruits of this search was Wright's decision to write a dozen of her last poems in the form of the ghazal, which is common to Persian, Arabic, and Urdu literature. These dozen poems are entitled The Shadow of Fire: Ghazals, and come at the end of Phantom Dwelling, published in 1985. In her Collected Poems, 1942-1985, these are the poems that are placed at the end of the book. In a sense, they are the terminus of her poetry; she published nothing more between 1985 and and her death in 2000. That the last sequence of Eastern poetic format, and specifically by Persian poetry and the work and thought of Hafez of Shiraz, is considerable. Her Shadow of Fire sequence thus stands as a very significant event in the history of literary transaction between Australian and Persian cultures.' (184)
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Phantom Dwelling A Discussion of Judith Wright's “Late Style”
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 1 June vol. 37 no. 2 2013; (p. 243-259) 'This article addresses “the problem” of Judith Wright's last volume of poetry, Phantom Dwelling (1985), seeking to understand why it has been neglected by literary scholars despite very positive reviews. It positions this work in relation to Edward Said's thesis on “late style” (2006), seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashō'sThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and “Record of the Hut of the Phantom Dwelling”, and Romanticism. (Author's abstract) -
A Play of Opposites : Judith Wright's Poetic-Public Crossings
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literary Activists : Australian Writer-Intellectuals and Public Life 2009; (p. 3-28) -
The Republic of Australia and the Poems of Judith Wright
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 29 no. 2 1996; (p. 163-175) - y Judith Wright South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1995 Z451414 1995 single work criticism
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Poetry, Nature, Counterstatement
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 105 1986; (p. 46-53)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling 1985 selected work poetry ; Words for a Journey : Poems 1970-1985 1986 selected work poetry ; The Bay of Salamis and Other Poems 1986 selected work poetry ; Walking to Bethongabel 1986 selected work poetry -
Real World Poetry
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 November 1986; (p. 46)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling 1985 selected work poetry -
Wright's Mature Voice: Concentration, Clarity, and Delight in the Land
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 May 1986; (p. B3)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling 1985 selected work poetry -
Ten of the Best : Some Recent Australian Poetry
1986-1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer no. 29 1986-1987; (p. 32-40)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling 1985 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives 1986 selected work poetry ; Travelling 1986 selected work poetry ; Luxury 1985 selected work poetry ; Boy with a Telescope 1986 selected work poetry ; The Bay of Salamis and Other Poems 1986 selected work poetry ; Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs 1986 selected work poetry ; The Cloud Passes Over 1986 selected work poetry ; The Twofold Place 1986 selected work poetry ; No Collars No Cuffs 1986 selected work poetry -
Feeling All the Wright Causes
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 May vol. 108 no. 5518 1986; (p. 105-106)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling 1985 selected work poetry -
Love, Loss, Anger: A Human Pattern
1990
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biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 3 June 1990; (p. 32) -
The Republic of Australia and the Poems of Judith Wright
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 29 no. 2 1996; (p. 163-175) -
A Play of Opposites : Judith Wright's Poetic-Public Crossings
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literary Activists : Australian Writer-Intellectuals and Public Life 2009; (p. 3-28) - y Flame and Shadow : A Study of Judith Wright's Poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z1687114 1991 single work criticism
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Landscape and Identity in Judith Wright's Poetry : An Introduction
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Australian Studies , December no. 4 1990; (p. 1-19)