Book Bite: Judith Wright

This letter to Wright’s daughter, Meredith McKinney, was written from ‘Edge’, Wright’s property near Mongarlowe in southern New South Wales. Within a year Wright would be 70. Two years later she would donate ‘Edge’, and 40 acres of bushland surrounding it, to the Australian National University for environmental research. This letter shows moving was on her mind and suggests it may have been complicated by her relationship with Nugget Coombs. In this letter she also refers to her friend, fellow poet Rosemary Dobson.