Research Catalog

Title

Birds : poems / by Judith Wright ; introduced by Meredith McKinney ; with illustrations from the National Library of Australia's Pictures Collection.

Author

Wright, Judith, 1915-2000

Publication

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

National Library of Australia

Description

vii, 80 p. : col. ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The poems in Judith Wright's Birds volume have long been recognised as among the best-loved poems written in Australia. Many people have grown up with the beguiling rhythms of 'Black Cockatoos', or the jauntiness of 'The Wagtail'. Now, in this new edition, commemorating 25 years since the poems were last published as a single collection, these works appear with six additional poems and a personal introduction by the poet's daughter Meredith McKinney, for whom many of the poems were written. The poems are complemented by full-colour illustrations drawn from the National Library's Pictures Collection, featuring the work of artists such as John Lewin, Lionel Lindsay and Lilian Medland, and William T. Cooper and Betty Temple Watts. Birds is both a celebration of Judith Wright (1915-2000) as writer and passionate environmentalist, and of the centrality of birds in the poet's imagination.

Subject

Birds > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0642107742

OCLC

• 55638239
• SCSB-11203007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library