The Gateway
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Gateway, a collection of poetry that stands as a testament to Judith Wright's singular ability to render the Australian landscape and the human condition with equal precision and grace. Wright's verse chronicles the eternal tensions between wilderness and civilisation, belonging and exile, love and loss — drawing the reader into an interior world as vast and unsparing as the continent that shaped her. Her lines carry the weight of the land itself, spare yet resonant, each image carefully chosen to illuminate truths that linger long after the page is turned. Wright's significance in the Australian literary canon cannot be overstated; she was not merely a poet but a fierce custodian of both natural and cultural heritage, whose work argues powerfully for a deeper, more honest relationship with place and history. The Gateway presents her mature lyrical voice at its most assured, weaving together personal meditation and universal myth in a manner that bridges the intimate and the epic. For readers encountering Wright for the first time, this collection opens a door — and what lies beyond it is nothing less than a reimagining of what Australian poetry can be.
Author: Judith Wright
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Gateway, a collection of poetry that stands as a testament to Judith Wright's singular ability to render the Australian landscape and the human condition with equal precision and grace. Wright's verse chronicles the eternal tensions between wilderness and civilisation, belonging and exile, love and loss — drawing the reader into an interior world as vast and unsparing as the continent that shaped her. Her lines carry the weight of the land itself, spare yet resonant, each image carefully chosen to illuminate truths that linger long after the page is turned. Wright's significance in the Australian literary canon cannot be overstated; she was not merely a poet but a fierce custodian of both natural and cultural heritage, whose work argues powerfully for a deeper, more honest relationship with place and history. The Gateway presents her mature lyrical voice at its most assured, weaving together personal meditation and universal myth in a manner that bridges the intimate and the epic. For readers encountering Wright for the first time, this collection opens a door — and what lies beyond it is nothing less than a reimagining of what Australian poetry can be.