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Title IOU: Judith Wright / Director: Leng, Karen
Published Australia : ABC2, 2007
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Summary Part two of IOU honours Queensland poet Judith Wright. Wright, who died in 2000, was one of Australia's most important and influential literary figures. We pay tribute to her life and poetry in IOU: Judith Wright through interviews with a number of Australian artists, poets and musicians who were influenced by her work.Over a 60-year career, Wright was well known for her passionate poetry celebrating the Australian landscape, as well as her engagement in environmental activism and Aboriginal reconciliation.IOU: Judith Wright highlights some of the key poems and publications of her career, such as South of My Days and Woman to Man.The documentary also outlines the pivotal moments of Judith Wright's 85 years: her relationship with philosopher Jack McKinney, the birth of her daughter Meredith, her friendship with Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) and her engagement in activism in the latter part of her life.IOU: Judith Wright includes interviews with Wright's daughter Meredith McKinney and close friend Barbara Blackman, former wife of Australian painter Charles Blackman. It also features interviews with Australian artists who have been profoundly influenced by Wright's work.Poet Jaya Savige: "I owe Judith my conviction as a Queensland poet, being able to write about the place I grew up in..." Visual artist John Wolseley: "Judith's work gives me courage...with Judith you get the sense that you can see into the life of things: that you can search for some underlying truth and find it."John Wolseley is a celebrated Australian artist, poetry buff and "bird obsessive" who has found an uncanny synchronicity between many of his paintings depicting Australian birds, and the poems of Judith Wright. Interviews also include: composer Richard Mills, sculptor Gavin Malone and visual artist Sally Harrison.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Executive Producer: Megan Harding. Director: Karen Leng. Researcher: Jenny O'Meara. Composer: Mick Turner. ABC TV Head of Arts Entertainment & Comedy: Courtney Gibson
Event Broadcast 2010-06-13 at 21:00:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Interviews.
Poets, English -- Biography.
Women authors, Australian.
Women poets, Australian.
Wright, Judith, 1915-2000.
Form Streaming video
Author Judith, Wright, contributor
Leng, Karen, director
McGregor, Ali, host