remembering Judith Wright Did we not know their blood channelled our rivers and the black dust our crops ate was their dust? JW* come back meet us under the pepper trees rugged up against Braidwood’s autumn air in your caramel three-quarter coat beanie and flat ribbed shoes come back shuffle the years like a pack…
Category: Judith Wright: Poetry and Spirit
Stephen Mason at “Called to Be..” inspired by Judith Wright’s poem “Water”
Here first is Judith Wright’s poem “Water” from her 1966 book The Other Half (page 240 of Collected Poems, page 223 of the Second Edition of CP) Water Water in braids and tumbles, shells of spray, heaves of clear glass and solemn greeneyed pools, eel-coils and quick meanders, goes its way fretting this savage basalt…
Andrew Fraser’s poem reflecting on his involvement with the Anti-Fracking campaign in solidarity with the Indigenous Gomeroi people near Coonabarabran
The poem below came out of my involvement with the anti- fracking campaign currently being waged by unionists, farmers and environmentalists in solidarity with the Gomeroi people. We are concerned about the impact of drilling 800 gas wells in the Pilliga.I was honoured when Gomeroi Elder, Auntie Sue Ellen invited me to read the poem…
Another poem by Andrew Fraser- with particular pertinence to Judith Wright’s horror of violence- both in Australia and overseas.
The current conflict in Gaza reminded me of one of my poems called ‘Hath Not a Jew Eyes’. The title is a quote from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and I was thinking of the terrible suffering of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israelis when I wrote it. The poem questions the Zionist philosophy of…
Andrew Fraser on Judith Wright
Andrew Fraser: Thank you for your contribution – a thoughtful and creative reflection on Judith Wright’s “The Wattle Tree” which inspired your poem “Sydney Easter Show” – thank you! I first encountered Judith Wright, when I studied The Wattle Tree in Michael Griffith’s Poetry and Being class run online at the Aquinas Academy in September…
On Judith Wright: Steve Mason
Thank you Steve, for this wonderful response to some of the poems and imagery that we explored last week. You are able to fuse key moments from Judith Wright’s haiku-like poems with her deep appreciation of Francis Webb’s imagistic power. Great work! You bring our two hour session vividly to life. – Michael From Summer:…
At Edge- Visit of Silver Wattle’s Poetry and the Spirit Group to Judith Wright’s cultural and natural environments in and around Braidwood.
Anthology of Poems by Participants at Poetry and Spirit:Judith Wright event at Silver Wattle.
Poem by Anne Benjamin Haiku by Anne Benjamin *** morning hour of meditation – fog shifts and lifts ** Haiku with Photograph from Paul Carter Moon-set firm in space By force, or love. Branches of How we view this place. HAIKU BY DOROTHY SCOTT HAIKU BY MERRILYN JULIAN Here is a contribution by Stephen Mason…
Braidwood Heritage Walk
https://visitqueanbeyanpalerang.com.au/explore/braidwood-heritage-walk/ HISTORY OF BRAIDWOOD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood,_New_South_Wales#:~:text=The%20area%20was%20first%20settled,the%20region%20are%20still%20standing. THE TWO FIRES FESTIVAL AT BRAIDWOOD
TWO FIRES BURNING: ABC BROADCAST (TRANSCRIPT) OF THE TWO FIRES FESTIVAL AT BRAIDWOOD.
POETRY AND SPIRIT- PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
2023 Poetry and Spirit, Participant feedback PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST SWQC, Residential, March 9 – 15 2023 (postponed from December 2022) Course Leader: Michael Griffith Course Elder: Duncan Frewin Now that this course is over Silver Wattle Quaker Centre would appreciate your feedback to help us plan for…
Quaker Silver Wattle Centre and Judith Wright
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Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 