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The Moving Image is a collection of poems by Judith Wright.
Notes
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Dedication: To My Father
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Epigraph: Time is a moving image of eternity (Plato)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Meanjin Press
, 1946 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", single work poetry (p. 1-6)
- The Madmen Singing From : The Moving Imagei"Dust blows harsh from the airfield; dust in the mouth", extract poetry (p. 2-3)
- The Company of Loversi"We meet and part now over all the world;", single work poetry war literature (p. 10)
- Blue Arabi"The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Bora Ringi"The song is gone; the dance", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Trapped Dingoi"So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Remittance Mani"The spendthrift, disinherited and graceless,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- "This ploughland vapoured with the dust of dreams," Soldier's Farmi"This ploughland drifted with the smoke of dreams,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- The Trainsi"Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass", single work poetry war literature (p. 19)
- The Idleri"The treasure islands were his desired landfall:", single work poetry (p. 20)
- The Hawthorn Hedgei"How long ago she planted the hawthorn hedge-", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Nigger's Leap : New Englandi"The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Bullockyi"Beside his heavy-shouldered team,", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Brother and Sistersi"The road turned out to be a cul-de-sac;", single work poetry (p. 26)
- South of My Daysi"South of my days' circle, part of my blood's country,", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- The Surferi"He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea,", single work poetry (p. 30)
- For New Englandi"Your trees, the homesick and the swarthy native,", single work poetry (p. 31-32)
- Waitingi"Day's crystal hemisphere travels the land.", single work poetry
- "Tonight, bringing in the new year not with bells" To A.H., New Year 1943i"To-night, bringing in the new year not with bells,", single work poetry war literature
- Sonneti"Now let the draughtsman of my eyes be done", single work poetry
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also electronic source
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Moving Image
single work
review
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry -
“Where’s Home, Ulysses?” Judith Wright in Europe 1937
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 52 no. 2 2017; (p. 331–349) 'When Judith Wright travelled to Europe in the “loaded spring” of February 1937, the 22-year-old poet found herself witness to “a break in the consciousness of Europe”. This article argues that Wright’s experience of being an outsider in Europe at this crucial historical moment had profound implications for her poetics, in the form of a compound and productive series of displacements. Her peripatetic encounters with European cultures-in-crisis caused Wright to despair of Europe as a source of political and creative renewal, and exposed fault lines in her own cultural orientation. Sundered from her Anglophile cultural inheritance, and able to reflect on home with the distance and imaginative ambivalence of an outsider, Wright invoked Ulysses — that archetypal poetic wanderer — whose experience of archipelagic journeying came to express for her the contingencies and hauntedness of Australia’s palimpsestic identity. This essay positions the shifting perspectives and excursive patterns of Wright’s developing poetics in relation to concepts of outsideness and embodiment, drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and phenomenological philosophies of mind.' (Publication abstract) -
Books That Changed Me : Geoff Page
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 15 February 2014; (p. 12) The Sun-Herald , 15 February 2015; (p. 10) -
Pelicans, Cycads and Ghost Crabs : Judith Wright and the Poetry of Queensland
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 136-147) -
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)
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Judith Wright's Remarkable Verse
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Vista , December vol. 1 no. 2 1946; (p. 23)
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry -
[Review] Icarius [et al]
1955
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 14 no. 4 1955; (p. 573-575)
— Review of Icarius 1941 single work drama poetry ; Red and Green 1954 selected work poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry ; Child with a Cockatoo, and Other Poems 1955 selected work poetry ; The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955 selected work poetry ; Lyric Images 1954 selected work poetry ; A Place to Get Lost In : Poems 1955 selected work poetry -
New Poetry
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , December vol. 1 no. 6 1946; (p. 255, 257)
— Review of Gaily the Troubadour : Satires in the Fixed Forms of Verse 1946 selected work poetry ; The Dosser in Springtime 1946 selected work poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1945 1946 anthology poetry -
Poetry Chronicle 1962
1962
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 21 no. 4 1962; (p. 495-504)
— Review of Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; The Best Poems of Hugh McCrae 1961 selected work poetry ; The Dogman and Other Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; Flowers and Fury : Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; This Vital Flesh 1939 selected work poetry prose ; Selected Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie 1961 selected work poetry ; Under the Bridge 1961 selected work poetry ; No Fixed Address : Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; A Few Mad Saints 1962 selected work poetry ; Statues & Lovers 1962 selected work poetry ; Penniless Till Doomsday 1962 selected work poetry ; Four Poets 1962 anthology selected work poetry ; A Question of Ignorance 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; The Rainbow Serpent, and Other Poems 1962 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1962 1962 anthology poetry ; A Book of Australian Verse 1956 anthology poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry ; Deep Well 1962 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Moving Image
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Books , vol. 2 no. 1 1946; (p. 4-6)
— Review of The Moving Image : Poems 1946 selected work poetry -
The Poetry of Judith Wright
1953
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 12 no. 3 1953; (p. 255-267) Australian Literary Criticism 1962; (p. 88-100) Critical Essays on Judith Wright 1968; (p. 39-50) -
Love, Loss, Anger: A Human Pattern
1990
single work
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) -
Australian Poetry : The Age of Affirmation, 1946-71
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Da Slessor a Dransfield : antologia della poesia Australiana moderna : mito societa' individuo 1977;
— Appears in: Statements 1984; (p. 1-28) -
Pelicans, Cycads and Ghost Crabs : Judith Wright and the Poetry of Queensland
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 136-147)
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