Because I Was Invited

by Judith Wright

Oxford University Press, 1975, [First Edition], ISBN 0195504879, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front endpaper  (see photographs)

“This collection of Judith Wright’s prose mirrors the concerns over the twenty years 1954 to 1974 of a writer, poet and early leader of the conservation movement in Australia, on various occasions and for various purposes.  As the title indicates, most of them were produced in response to invitations.
the questions of whether and how poetry ought to be taught in schools, of developing a ‘moral ethic’ for out dealings with nature, of the attitudes of white Australians to Aboriginals, of the need for a new approach to education in out growing environmental crisis, mingle with lecture or essays on individual Australian poets, their work and their significance in the literature of Australia, and on the problems of communication faced by writers today.”

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