Editing Judith Wright (section)

===''Birds''===
In 2003, the National Library of [[Australia]] published an expanded edition of Wright's collection titled ''Birds''.<ref name="McKinney2004">{{cite journal |author=McKinney, Meredith |date=March 2004 |title=Birds |journal=National Library of Australia News |volume=XVII |issue=5 |pages=7–10 |url=http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/mar04/index.html |archive-date=5 February 2012 |access-date=13 December 2024 |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120205171951/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/131760/20120120-0944/www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/mar04/index.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>{{rp|7}} Most of these poems were written in the 1950s when she was living on [[Tamborine Mountain]] in southeast [[Queensland]]. Meredith McKinney, Wright's daughter, writes that they were written at "a precious and dearly-won time of warmth and bounty to counterbalance at last what felt, in contrast, the chilly dearth and difficulty of her earlier years".<ref name="McKinney2004" />{{rp|8-9}} McKinney goes on to say that "many of these poems have a newly relaxed, almost conversational tone and rhythm, an often humorous ease and an intimacy of voice that surely reflects the new intimacies and joys of her life".<ref name="McKinney2004" />{{rp|9}} Despite the joy reflected in the poems, however, they also acknowledge "the experiences of cruelty, pain and death that are inseparable from the lives of birds as of humans ... and [turn] a sorrowing a clear-sighted gaze on the terrible damage we have done and continue to do to our world, even as we love it".<ref name="McKinney2004" />{{rp|9}}