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The Moving Image (poetry Collection)
''The Moving Image'' is a collection of poems by Australian poet Judith Wright, published by Meanjin Press in 1946. The collection contains 24 poems from a variety of sources, such as ''Poetry'', '' The Bulletin'', and ''Meanjin'', with some being published here for the first time. Contents * "The Moving Image" * "The Madmen Singing" * "Northern River" * "The Company of Lovers" * "Blue Arab" * "Bora Ring" * "Trapped Dingo" * "Waiting" * "To A.H., New Year 1943" * "Remittance Man" * "Soldier's Farm" * "The Trains" * "The Idler" * "Country Town" * "The Hawthorn Hedge" * "Nigger's Leap : New England" * "Sonnet" * "Bullocky" * "Brother and Sisters" * "Half-Caste Girl" * " South of My Days" * " The Surfer" * "For New England" * "Dust" Critical reception Reviewing the collection for '' The Bulletin'' Douglas Stewart noted the "comparative smallness of output" and "a certain lack of joy, spontaneity and simplicity; and, in consequence, an impression of seriousness and, sometimes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, 1965 and 1967. Biography Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales. The eldest child of Phillip Wright and his first wife, Ethel, she spent most of her formative years in Brisbane and Sydney. Wright was of Cornish ancestry. Following the early death of her mother, she lived with her aunt and then boarded at New England Girls' School after her father's remarriage in 1929. After graduating, Wright studied philosophy, English, psychology and history at the University of Sydney. At the beginning of World War II, she returned to her father's station (ranch) to help during the shortage of labour caused by the war. Wright's first book of poetry, ''The Moving Image'', was published in 1946 while she was working at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations. ''The Bulletin'' exerted significant influence on Australian culture and politics, emerging as "Australia's most popular magazine" by the late 1880s. Jingoistic, xenophobic, anti-imperialist and Republicanism in Australia, republican, it promoted the idea of an Australian national identity distinct from its British colonial origins. Described as "the bushman's bible", ''The Bulletin'' helped cultivate a mythology surrounding the The bush#The Australian bush, Australian bush, with bush poets such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson contributing many of their best known works to the publication. After federation of Australia, federation in 1901, ''The Bulletin'' changed owners multiple times and gradually became more conservative in its views while remaining an "organ of Australianism" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meanjin
''Meanjin'' (), formerly ''Meanjin Papers'' and ''Meanjin Quarterly'', is one of Australia's longest-running literary magazines. Established in 1940 in Brisbane, it moved to Melbourne in 1945 and as of 2008 is an editorially independent imprint of Melbourne University Publishing. A print edition is produced quarterly, while it is updated continuously online. History The magazine was established in December 1940 in Brisbane, by Clem Christesen as ''Meanjin Papers''. The name is derived from the Turrbal/Yagara word for land on which the city of Brisbane is located. It moved to Melbourne in 1945 at the invitation of the University of Melbourne. Artist and patron Lina Bryans opened the doors of her Darebin Bridge House to the ''Meanjin'' group: then Vance and Nettie Palmer, Rosa and Dolia Ribush, Jean Campbell, Laurie Thomas, and Alan McCulloch. There they joined the moderates in the Contemporary Art Society ( Norman Macgeorge, Clive Stephen, Isobel Tweddle and Rupert B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remittance Man (poem)
"Remittance Man" is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' on 15 March 1944 and later in several of the author's poetry collections and a number of other Australian poetry anthologies. Outline The "remittance man" of the title has been disgraced in Britain and sent by his family to make a new life in Australia. There he would receive a regular payment from the family back home. This will be enough to feed him though he will have to keep seeking casual employment to ensure he lives in some sort of comfort. Critical reception While reviewing the poet's collection ''A Human Pattern : Selected Poems'' critic Beverley Brahic commented that "As Heaney reveals rural Northern Ireland to us, so Wright trains her refreshingly flinty eye on the settlers of rural Australia. 'Remittance Man' is not Heaneyesque in its irony or in its way of telling rather than evoking with sensuous detail and rich music, but it too delineates the contours of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Town (poem)
"Country Town" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 20 December 1944, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. Synopsis This is a nostalgic poem that recognises that the past is no longer with us, though it also acknowledges that "the chains are stronger" now. In spite of that the past should be remembered. Critical reception In a review of ''The Moving Image'' a reviewer in ''The Age'' newspaper found that in this poem, and a few others, Wright "achieves the intensity of feeling, the sureness of phrase, the sensitive pictorial image and the genuine vision illuminating the picture with meaning, which make poetry." While reviewing the poet's collection ''Collected Poems 1942-1985'' reviewer Maurice Dunleavy noted in '' The Bulletin'' that this was one of the poet's poems that are "elegiac in tone, nostalgic laments for a lost past, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullocky (Wright Poem)
"Bullocky" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 27 September 1944, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' states the poem "links the bullock driver in his pioneer role of unlocking the land with Moses, leading his people into the promised land...The poem indicates that the continuing fruitfulness and progress of the coiuntry depend upon the past as much as the present; that Australia of the future will be shaped by its traditions and history." Critical reception In reviewing ''Modern Australian Poetry'', edited by H. M. Green, in ''The Advocate'' (Melbourne) reviewer "L.M." called the poem "a splendid example of right'smastery over words and vigorous, unusual imagery." Critic "E.M.", writing in ''The Age'' (Melbourne) about Wright's poetry, stated that the poem "could only have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Of My Days
"South of My Days" (1945) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 8 August 1945, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. The poem depicts a landscape of desolation and isolation, both physical and emotional. Critical reception ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' notes that this poem established Wright "as the poet of the New England countryside." The entry points out it reflects the countryside where Wright was born and that it also contains "fragments of stories from that countryside's pioneer past — drovers and bushrangers, desperate droughts and starving cattle, and the legendary coaches of Cobb & Co." ''The Oxford Literary History of Australia'' stated that with this poem "Wright exceeds even the cultural confidence of other scions of squatting families, fusing an Australian landscape with her own past ''and'' with her ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Surfer (poem)
"The Surfer" (1945) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 21 March 1945, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. The poet observes a surfer at sea and compares him, in the water, with the gulls in the air. But as night falls he needs to be mindful of the sea's power and danger. Critical reception Reviewing the poet's collection ''A Human Pattern : Selected Poems'' for ''The Canberra Times'' Alan Gould noted that "Like some of Arthur Boyd's paintings, the forces on her canvas are elemental from which individual creatures like the stallion (in 'Blue Arab'), the surfer, the snake, leap into metaphysical focus." In their essay "Adapted for land : a lungfish writes the sea" in ''Plumwood Mountain Journal'' Brooke Emery notes that Wright adopts the "position of observer' in this poem, and while it "comes closest to catching the experience of bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1946. Books * James Aldridge – ''Of Many Men'' * Herz Bergner – '' Between Sky and Sea'' * Dora Birtles – ''The Overlanders : A Novel'' * Capel Boake – ''The Twig is Bent'' * Martin Boyd – ''Lucinda Brayford'' * Errol Flynn – ''Showdown'' * Miles Franklin – '' My Career Goes Bung'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''This Other Eden'' * Michael Innes ** ''From London Far'' ** ''What Happened at Hazelwood'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''The Roaring Nineties'' * Christina Stead – '' Letty Fox: Her Luck'' * Kylie Tennant – ''Lost Haven'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' They Lived That Spring'' * Arthur Upfield – '' The Devil's Steps'' Short stories * Jon Cleary – '' These Small Glories'' * Alan Marshall ** "The Grey Kangaroo" ** ''Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories'' * Vance Palmer – "The Foal" * Douglas Stewart – "The Three Jolly Foxes" * Dal Stivens � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry By Judith Wright
Poetry (from the Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects into poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable (mora) weight). They may also use repeating patterns of phonemes, phoneme groups, tones (phonemic pitch shifts found in tonal languages), words, or entire phrases. These include conso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
