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Reading Australia

Reading Australia

This work has Reading Australia teaching resources.

Unit Suitable For

AC: Year 11 (Literature Unit 2)

Themes

Indigenous Australians, life and death, natural world/environmentalism, poetry, regional Australia, the past

General Capabilities

Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding, Information and communication technology, Intercultural understanding, Literacy, Personal and social

Cross-curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Sustainability

Contents

* Contents derived from the Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1994 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. 3-6)
Northern Riveri"When summer days grow harsh", Judith Wright (editor), single work poetry (p. 6-7)
The Company of Loversi"We meet and part now over all the world;", Judith Wright , single work poetry war literature (p. 7)
Bora Ringi"The song is gone; the dance", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 8)
Blue Arabi"The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 8)
Trapped Dingoi"So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 9)
Waitingi"Day's crystal hemisphere travels the land.", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Remittance Mani"The spendthrift, disinherited and graceless,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
"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. 11-12)
The Trainsi"Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass", Judith Wright , single work poetry war literature (p. 12)
The Idleri"The treasure islands were his desired landfall:", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 13)
Country Towni"This is no longer the landscape that they knew,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
The Hawthorn Hedgei"How long ago she planted the hawthorn hedge-", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Nigger's Leap : New Englandi"The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
Sonneti"Now let the draughtsman of my eyes be done", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 16)
Bullockyi"Beside his heavy-shouldered team,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 17)
Brother and Sistersi"The road turned out to be a cul-de-sac;", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 18)
Half-Caste Girli"Little Josie buried under the bright moon", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 19)
South of My Daysi"South of my days' circle, part of my blood's country,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
The Surferi"He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 21-22)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

‘Deep Hanging Out’ : Native Species Images and Affective Labour 2017 single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;

'This paper investigates the affective labour done by, specifically, native species images in Australian poetry, using Judith Wright's bird poems, and various poems about kangaroos as example. It uses the anthropological term, "deep hanging out", borrowed from an article about fashion models, to extend the idea of affective labour, and to measure poems' attentions to birds and animals, and their relation to iconising as the work of nationalism. It is concerned with cultural capital, and Canberra, and the human empire.'  (Publication abstract)

‘Sorry, above All, That I Can Make Nothing Right’ : Public Apology in Judith Wright Bridget Vincent , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 61 2017;

'Since the middle of the twentieth century, the phenomenon of public apology has become increasingly prevalent and visible, enacted in contexts ranging from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Australian government’s apology to the Stolen Generation, to the iconic genuflection of Willy Brandt before the Warsaw Ghetto Monument. While research surrounding public apology (particularly in the context of work on trauma, memory and reconciliation) has also become increasing prevalent, literary representations of public apology remain under-researched. Works like J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) and Gail Jones’ Sorry (2007) present something of a scholarly conundrum. In the final historical and cultural assessment of public apologies, how are imaginative representations of apologies to be understood? Do they participate in the apologising process, or do they simply describe it? What implications does a judgement either way hold for scholarship on the larger relations between art and civic life? This paper finds a way into some of these large questions by considering the specific case of Judith Wright and the forms of literary redress she made to Indigenous Australians. ' (Introduction)

A Century’s Worth of Passions Felicity Plunkett , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 21)

— Review of Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry
Phillip Hall Reviews Judith Wright, Georgina Arnott and Katie Noonan Phillip Hall , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 55.1 2016;

— Review of Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry ; The Unknown Judith Wright Georgina Arnott , 2016 single work biography ; With Love and Fury Judith Wright , 2016 selected work lyric/song
Colonial Knowledge, Post-Colonial Poetics Lyn McCredden , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 255-277)
Books Read Since the End of November 1994 Bruce Gillespie , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Scratch Pad 12 , August 1995; (p. 1-3)

— Review of Crosskill : A Wyatt Novel Garry Disher , 1994 single work novel ; A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories Peter Cowan , 1986 selected work short story ; Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography ; The Pure Land David Foster , 1974 single work novel ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry ; Love Lies Bleeding : A Crimes For a Summer Christmas Anthology 1994 anthology short story ; Australia's First Fabians : Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement ; Foreword by Gough Whitlam Race Mathews , E. G. Whitlam , 1993 single work biography ; Our Lady of Chernobyl Greg Egan , 1995 selected work short story ; Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction Damien Broderick , 1995 single work criticism ; Mirrorsun Rising Sean McMullen , 1995 single work novel
Like a Perfectly Cast Bell Christopher Pollnitz , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 April 1994; (p. rev 7)

— Review of The Flame Tree Judith Wright , Sakai Nobuo (translator), Meredith McKinney (translator), 1993 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry
Compasses of Love Jennifer Strauss , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 May 1994; (p. 8)

— Review of The Flame Tree Judith Wright , Sakai Nobuo (translator), Meredith McKinney (translator), 1993 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry ; Peninsula Dorothy Hewett , 1994 selected work poetry
Untitled Shirley Walker , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 39 no. 2 1994; (p. 91-93)

— Review of The Flame Tree Judith Wright , Sakai Nobuo (translator), Meredith McKinney (translator), 1993 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry
A Poet's Life of Sweeping Themes Heather Cam , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 March 1994; (p. 11A)

— Review of Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry
The Poetry of Judith Wright and Sylvia Plath : Some Points of Comparison Keya Majumdar , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Austral-Asian Encounters : From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism 2003; (p. 430-440)
Ancestral Echoes : Spectres of the Past in Judith Wright's Poetry Sue King-Smith , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2007; (p. 117-129)

Sue King-Smith says: 'There are three main spectres in Wright's poetry that this article addresses. The first relates to the loss and separation Wright experienced when she became aware of the history of the land she had felt a profound sense of identification with since early childhood ... The second spectre relates to the traces of Aboriginal massacres and dispossessions. And the third is the spectre of the indigenous landscape that existed prior to British occupation, with a substantial number of indigenous species of flora and fauna now extinct.

'This article will argue that these spectres are intimately linked in Wright's writing and that her poetic and private relationships with the Australian landscape are constantly mediated by the need to acknowledge these ghosts.' (pp.117-118)

y separately published work icon The God-Shaped Hole : Responding to the Good News in Australia Veronica Brady , Adelaide : ATF Press , 2008 Z1533434 2008 selected work criticism This book brings together a selection of Veronica Brady's critical addresses arguing that there are novels and poems that bear witness to the mystery of 'God' or an 'Other' who speaks through others.
Are there Really Angels in Carlton? Australian Literature and Theology Noel Rowe , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 30-59)
Colonial Knowledge, Post-Colonial Poetics Lyn McCredden , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 255-277)
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