The pioneering family story of her forebears from Australia's best-known poet, Judith Wright. The names, dates and events are factual and are based on diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, but Wright has taken this material and with her poet's imagination turned it into a reconstruction of a past era; people, places and even moods.

A beautifully written family history that documents not only the settling of Judith Wright's own family into New South Wales last century, but also the life of a nation, as Australia was colonised by 'generations of men' unsuited in many ways to the historical and geographical context of their new environment. For many years unavailable, Judith Wright's elegant chronicle is fascinating both as a historical document and a personal meditation.

Judith Wright was born in 1915 at Armidale, New South Wales, into a prominent New England pastoral family. A worker for conservation, the environment, Aboriginal land rights and human rights from the early days of these movements, Judith Wright has expressed their concerns over a lifetime of writing. Her first book of poetry was The Moving Image, published in 1946, and was followed by Woman to Man in 1949, and twenty books since.

Judith Wright's own definitive selection of her poetry, covering the best and most memorable from her first collection, The Moving Image (1946) through to Phantom Dwelling (1985). Forty years of poetic production from Australia's best-known poet.

A clear and elegant edition containing all the favourite Judith Wright poems, including 'Bullocky', 'The Surfer', 'Woman to Man', 'Five Sense', 'The Diver', 'Bora Ring'. Judith Wright's sensual images are expressed with that strong simple language and subtle passion which has earned her an international reputation.

Judith Wright was born in 1915 in Armidale, New South Wales, into a prominent New England pastoral family. She has been for many decades an outspoken worker for conservation, the environment, Aboriginal land rights and human rights, interests which are reflected in her poetry. Judith Wright died in 2000.