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Judith Wright McKinney interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording]
Bib ID 427802
Format AudioAudio
Author
Wright, Judith, 1915-2000
 
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. 
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.

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.

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.
Other authors/contributors Rusden, Heather, 1948-

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