| Bib ID |
427802 |
| Format |
Audio, Online - Google Books |
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| Access Conditions |
Open access for research & personal copies; permission of literary executor for public use of interviewee's readings of own works. |
| Description |
1987-1988.
20 tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track + full track, stereo + mono ; 10, 7 and 5 in.
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| Summary |
Wright McKinney reflects on her life as a writer, her relationship with the land, Aboriginal rights, participation in the conservation movement and reads some of her poems. She describes childhood influences; early writing; Armidale in the Depression; Sydney University; Women's College; Aborigines; pseudonym; Fisher Library; pre-war Germany, Ceylon; views on Auden, MacNiece; Wooloomoolo gypsies; 1930s Sydney social divisions; Mary Gilmore; Miles Franklin; Doc Evatt; New Theatre; communism; Wallamumbee 1941-43; night writing; first publishing poetry; stepmother; Brisbane during WWII; Jim Devanney, Clem Christensen; Meanjin; Jindyworobak anthologies; Jack McKinney; Mt Tambourine; Furphy's Such is Life; Nettie & Vance Palmer; songs of her poetry; Wildlife Preservation Society of Qld; husband's ill-health; Francis James, Charles Blackman, A.D. Hope; Australian literary criticism; prose; publishing overseas; husband's death; lecturing; film of The Blind Man; filming Shadow's Sister; Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate; Australian Council for the Arts; Nuggett Coombs; grants; Bruce Dawe; Whitlam years; Braidwood property; fellowships; Michael Dransfield; thoughts on being interviewed; Aboriginal rights; Aboriginal Treaty Committee; makarata; deeds of grant in trust; Mabo; Bob Brown; Greenpeace; Nuclear Disarmament Party; language degeneration; contemporary poetry; poetry readings; Soil Conservation Commission.
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| Notes |
Recorded at the National Library of Australia, Canberra and at the home of Heather Rusden, Red Hill, ACT between 18 September 1987 and 12 May 1988.
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available (typescript, 655 leaves) |
| Subjects |
Wright, Judith, - 1915-2000 - Interviews. | Women poets - Australia - 20th century - Interviews. | Women authors, Australian - 20th century - Interviews. | Conservation of natural resources - Australia - History.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Rusden, Heather, 1948-
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