Judith Wright's 'Woman to Man' and Ali Cobby Eckermann's 'Yankunytjatjara Love Poems'

What this note covers

1. Two modern contexts, two very different relationships to place
2. Wright's elemental imagery and the woman's voice
3. Eckermann's language, kinship and Country
4. Form: cosmic free verse and orally inflected, bicultural rhythm
5. Worked example: nature, Country and what each poem resists
6. Writing about this pairing accurately and respectfully
7. How this pairing is examined and what a top response shows

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