Collected Poems by Wright, Judith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents Foreword (2016) Foreword (1993) The Moving Image 1946

The Moving Image Northern River The Company of Lovers Blue Arab Bora Ring Trapped Dingo To A.H., New Year, 1943 Waiting 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

Woman to Man 1949

Woman to Man Woman’s Song Woman to Child Conch-shell The Maker Pain Child and Wattle-tree The Sisters Spring after War The Child Camphor Laurel The Garden The World and the Child Night after Bushfire The Bull Dream The Cycads The Twins The Flood Eli, Eli The Builders The Mirror at the Fun Fair The Bushfire The Unborn Night The City Asleep The Killer Metho Drinker Stars The Old Prison The Bones Speak Letter to a Friend Midnight Song in a Wine-bar Flame-tree in a Quarry Wonga Vine Night and the Child The Blind Man

I The Dust in the Township II Country Dance III The Singer to the Child IV Lost Child V Blind Man’s Song

The Gateway 1953

Dark Gift Fire at Murdering Hut

I The Grave II The Fire III The Stone

The Cedars Train Journey Transformations I Fairy tale

II Myth III the Play

The Journey Eroded Hills Old House Drought Year Flood Year Old Man Botanical Gardens Song for a Drowning Sailor Girl and Death Two Songs of Mad Tom Birds Lion The Orange-tree Sandy Swamp Phaius Orchid Rain at Night Eden Song for Winter Sonnet for Christmas The Pool and the Star All Things Conspire Our Love Is So Natural Song for Easter The Flame-tree Song Two Hundred Miles Legend Nursery Rhyme for a Seventh Son The Cicadas Ishtar The Promised One A Song to Sing You Waiting Ward The Watcher Full Moon Rhyme To a Child Two Songs for the World’s End Drought Unknown Water Walker in Darkness The Ancestors The Forest Path The Lost Man The Traveller and the Angel The Gateway

The Two Fires 1955

The Two Fires The Precipice Silence Return West Wind Western Star Two Generations Searchlight Practice For the Loved and the Unloved Dialogue The Man beneath the Tree Cyclone and Aftermath For Precision Nameless Flower Breath Scribbly-gum Flying-fox on Barbed Wire Gum-trees Stripping Seven Songs from a Journey I Carnarvon Range

II Brigalow Country III Night IV The Prospector V Canefields VI Sea-beach VII Mount Mary

Sanctuary At Cooloolah Landscapes The Wattle-tree . . . And Mr Ferritt Flesh I The Hand

II The Body III The Face

The Cup Two Old Men To a Child Outside Time For a Birthday In Praise of Marriages Request to a Year Storm Song Wildflower Plain The Harp and the King

Birds 1962

The Peacock The Blue Wrens and the Butcher-bird Eggs and Nestlings Winter Kestrel Currawong The Swamp Pheasant Thornbills Black-shouldered Kite Egrets “Dove—Love” Migrant Swift Apostle-birds Parrots Magpies Wounded Night-bird The Wagtail Pelicans Silver Terns Brown Bird Black Cockatoos Rainbow-bird Black Swans Night Herons Lyrebirds Satin Bower-birds Brush Turkey The Koel Extinct Birds Dotterel Lory

Five Senses 1963

The Beasts The Forest Five Senses The Nautilus Praise for the Earth Q to A The Lake Interplay Dry Storm A Child’s Nightmare Bachelor Uncle The Graves at Mill Point Old Woman’s Song Age to Youth Double Image Judas in Modern Dress Vision Moth Reason and Unreason For My Daughter Naming the Stars Sports Field The Diver The Poet Reading Thomas Traherne The Morning of the Dead I The Meeting

II The Interchange III The End

Poem and Audience Autumn Fires

The Other Half 1966

The Other Half To Hafiz of Shiraz The Curtain Metamorphosis Destruction Imago To Another Housewife The Encounter Against the Wall Power City Sunrise Pro and Con Wishes For Jack Blight Beside the Creek The Real Dream The Trap Homecoming Prayer Sculpture Cleaning Day Clock and Heart To a Mare Eve to Her Daughters Remembering an Aunt For John Shaw Neilson The Young Wife Typists in the Phoenix Building Child with a Dead Animal Naked Girl and Mirror Water The Beanstalk, Meditated Later A Document Camping at Split Rock Snakeskin on a Gate New Guinea Legend I The Village

II The People III Aruako Speaks IV He Walks in the Jungle V The Girls Mock Him VI Aruako is Moved by Their Scorn VII He Despairs of the Search VIII The Moon Is Born IX The Poet Boasts

Portrait Turning Fifty

Shadow 1970

Two Sides of a Story I Kennedy

II Jacky Jacky

The Histeridae For One Dying This Time Alone Love Song in Absence The Vision Eurydice in Hades Heloise Wakening Tool Eight-panel Screen Poem Advice to a Young Poet At a Poetry Conference, Expo ’67 For a Migrant Poet The City Fire Sermon Christmas Ballad Massacre of the Innocents Jet Flight over Derby The Dead Astronaut Weapon Stillborn Rosina Alcona to Julius Brenzaida Wings Letter The Flame-tree Blooms Australia 1970 Report of a Working-party Communication Halfway The Unnecessary Angel Shadow

Alive 1973

Habitat Some Words Unless

Therefore Enough Never Forever

At a Public Dinner Dialogue Space Between Two Dreamtimes Oriole, Oriole Lament for Passenger Pigeons Alive To Mary Gilmore “Bid Me Strike a Match and Blow” Geology Lecture White Night Finale Tableau Wedding Photograph, 1913 Falls Country Reminiscence Picture Grace That Seed Lake in Spring Good News Black/White The Slope

Fourth Quarter 1976

Fourth Quarter Easter Moon and Owl Tightropes Interface (I) Interface (II) Interface (III) Half Dream Dream They Party with the Gods Brief Notes on Canberra I City and Mirage

II Sculptures III Military Aircraft IV Nobody Looks Up V Oaks, etc. VI Going Outside VII Ecological Comment

The Dark Ones Remembering Michael By-pass Eve Sings Eve Scolds Architects Builders The Eucalypt and the National Character For the Quaternary Age Termite Queen Case-moth Growing-point Swamp Plant Encounter Platypus Creation—Annihilation For a Butterfly Farmer The Marks Cold Night Woman in Orchard Patterns Twenty-five Years After the Visitors At Cedar Creek For M.R. Envy Learning a Word Counting in Sevens Moving South Boundaries Unpacking Books

Phantom Dwelling 1985

Four Poems from New Zealand I From the Wellington Museum

II In the Rail-car III Entertainment IV The Beach at Hokitika

Poems 1978–1980 Backyard Smalltown Dance Late Meeting End of a Monarchy Victims Brennan Seasonal Flocking For a Pastoral Family I To my brothers

II To my generation III For today IV Pastoral lives V Change VI Kinship

Words, Roses, Stars Hunting Snake Rainforest Notes at Edge Brevity Mountain Sun-orchid Rock Fox Epacris Violet Stick-insects River Bend Lichen, Moss, Fungus Caddis-fly Glass Corridor The Shadow of Fire (Ghazals) Rockpool Eyes Rockface Summer Connections Oppositions Memory Skins Dust Pressures Winter Patterns

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