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Hearts with One Purpose Alone

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October 2004, no. 265

The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney edited by Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney

UQP, $24.95 pb, 202 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Birds: Poems by Judith Wright

National Library of Australia, $24.95 pb, 80 pp

Hearts with One Purpose Alone

by
October 2004, no. 265

These two volumes are a credit to their publishers. The format of The Equal Heart and Mind, a new departure for UQP, is slightly smaller than the usual paperback. The pages are deckle-edged, and the cover, in brilliant tones of magenta and purple, has its edges folded in on themselves as if to enclose and protect the contents. Very effective! In the National Library production of Birds: Poems by Judith Wright, the poems are accompanied by pictures from the National Library of Australia’s Pictures Collection, many by colonial artists. Paintings such as J.W. Levin’s ‘Rainbow Bee-Eater’ (1838) and E.E. Gostclow’s ‘Black Cockatoo’ (1929) are rarely seen masterpieces. This edition is a collector’s piece, worth buying for the pictures alone. Let’s hope that these two books herald a renewal of interest in Wright and her work.

The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney

The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney

edited by Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney

UQP, $24.95 pb, 202 pp

Birds: Poems

Birds: Poems

by Judith Wright

National Library of Australia, $24.95 pb, 80 pp

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